Prof. Steven Smith Pennington Biomedical Research Center, USA

Steven Smith is the Assistant Executive Director of Clinical Research at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. He received his MD in 1988 from the University of Texas, San Antonio. His areas of research interest are adipocyte cellular biology, preadipocyte differentiation and the links between fatness and disease risk. He also... read moreworks on the mechanisms that determine inter-individual differences in substrate utilization, i.e. fat vs. carbohydrate oxidation.