News from LTOR
Dec 14, 2024
José provides his expert opinion on a recent publication relating to US obesity rates for a Today Show segment. Thanks to NYULH Media Relations and the Today Show for this opportunity!
https://www.today.com/video/new-study-shows-obesity-rates-dropping-for-first-time-in-a-decade-227078213541
Nov 29, 2024
Dr. Joanne Bruno leads our TRIO clinical trial reporting results in article “Weight-neutral early time-restricted eating improves glycemic variation and time in range without changes in inflammatory markers.” This article is the result of a longstanding collaboration with Dr Jeanne Walker of the Rockefeller Hospital, Ms. Andrea Ronning of Rockefeller Bionutrition in part funded by the Shapiro Silverberg fund at the Rockefeller University Center for Clinical and Translational Science. Congrats Joanne!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39759025
Oct 30, 2024
José coauthors in postdoctoral fellow Dr. Min-Young Park’s article entitled “Targeted Deletion of Fibroblast Growth Factor 23 Rescues Metabolic Dysregulation of Diet-induced Obesity in Female Mice.” Congrats Min-Young!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39446375
Oct 1, 2024
José coauthors in graduated fellow Dr. Gabriela Jordan’s review entitled “Weight Loss Pharmacotherapy: Current and Future Therapies.” Congrats Gabby!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39277293
Aug 24, 2024
José coauthors in Dr. Sally Vanegas’ article describing our institutional bariatric cohort funded by the NYU Comprehensive Program in Obesity Research and the American Heart Association, published in the journal BMJ Open. This is the second publication describing this cohort following Dr. Brenda Dorcely’s publication earlier this year. Congrats Sally!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39181563
Jun 4, 2024
José collaborated with friend, colleague and cardiologist Dr. Scott Cameron and his group on the first of several publications delineating differences between lipedema, lymphedema and obesity entitled “A Divergent Platelet Transcriptome in Patients with Lipedema and Lymphedema” in the journal Genes. Thanks to the Lipedema Foundation for their generous support.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38927673
May 15, 2024
Ashley Mooring graduates with her Masters in Biology from NYU Washington Square. Congrars Ashley!
Apr 11, 2024
José coauthors Dr. Sharine Wittkop’s review entitled “A review of air pollution as a driver of cardiovascular disease risk across the diabetes spectrum” in journal Frontiers in Endocrinology. Congrats Sharine!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38665261
Jan 6, 2024
Undergraduate researcher Ashley Medina coauthors mini-review “Metabolic flux analysis in adipose tissue reprogramming” in the journal Immunometabolism. Congrats Ashley!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38455681
Jan 4, 2024
Dr. Brenda Dorcely publishes the initial description of the AHA IGNITION Bariatric Cohort directed by José in “Continuous glucose monitoring captures glycemic variability in obesity after sleeve gastrectomy: A prospective cohort study.” Congrats Brenda!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38187121/
Oct 13, 2023
José collaborates with Emergency Medicine colleague Dr. David Lee and the VA Diabetes Risk Cohort group on “Demographic, social and geographic factors associated with glycaemic control among US Veterans with new onset type 2 diabetes: a retrospective cohort study.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37832984/
Oct 2, 2023
José partakes in CoVPN publication “Risk of COVID-19 after natural infection or vaccination.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37738833/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37650325/
Jul 3, 2023
José partakes in CoVPN publication “Clinical and Demographic Factors Associated With COVID-19, Severe COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Adults: A Secondary Cross-Protocol Analysis of 4 Randomized Clinical Trials.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37440227/
Jun 15, 2023
Drs. Joanne Bruno and Dr. Shabnam Nasserifar highlighted by ENDO 2023 for their poster “Early time-restricted feeding as a weight neutral approach to improved glycemic variation.”
https://nyulangone.org/news/study-finds-eating-meals-earlier-improves-metabolic-health
Feb 8, 2023
José collaborates with AHA SFRN colleagues on “Obesity and Overweight: Probing Causes, Consequences, and Novel Therapeutic Approaches Through the American Heart Association’s Strategically Focused Research Network.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36752232/
Feb 1, 2023
José collaborated with Obesity Medicine colleagues across the US in “Obesity among Latinx people in the United States: A review.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36695058/
Jan 3, 2023
José publishes collaboration with the Sibinga group at Einstein on “Increased adipose catecholamine levels and protection from obesity with loss of Allograft Inflammatory Factor-1.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36596796/
July 8, 2022
José publishes collaboration with the WIHS study, Emory and Cornell on “Plasma metabolomic analysis indicates flavonoids and sorbic acid are associated with incident diabetes: A nested case-control study among Women’s Interagency HIV Study participants.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35802662/
July 4, 2022
Dr. Joanne Bruno in LTOR published “Body weight and prandial variation of plasma metabolites in subjects undergoing gastric band-induced weight loss” in the journal Obesity Medicine!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37216066/
February 1, 2022
LTOR publishes “Obesity Pharmacotherapy is Effective in the Veterans Affairs Patient Population: A Local and Virtual Cohort Study”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33491308/
November 2, 2021
José chairs the Obesity and COVID-19 symposium at virtual Obesity Week 2020.
https://obesityweek.org/
November 1, 2021
LTOR collaborates with the Mueller lab at NYU Endocrinology to publish “PPARγ agonists delay age-associated metabolic disease and extend longevity.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33219735/
https://nyulangone.org/news/researchers-find-new-anti-aging-properties-old-diabetes-drugs
Burdens of Clinical Care in the Obesity Crisis.
July 26, 2021
Dr. Jose Aleman is featured by the Veteran’s Affairs Office of Research and Development.
Link: One-two Punch helps Veterans with Weight Loss
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33491308/
https://obesityweek.org/
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33219735/
Link: https://nyulangone.org/news/researchers-find-new-anti-aging-properties-old-diabetes-drugs
May 22, 2020
LTOR collaborates with Sean Heffron’s group in NYU Cardiology to publish “Lipoprotein insulin resistance score in nondiabetic patients with obesity after bariatric surgery.”
link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32636175/
K08-DK117064 Metabolic Flux Analysis of Obesity-Associated Inflammation in Weight Loss.
The principal goal of this study is to understand the mechanisms by which lipid release from adipocytes modulates systemic and adipose tissue inflammation in human obesity and weight loss.
September 28, 2018Franco Vallejo presents a poster at the 3rd NYC Regional Obesity Forum from our early clinical work assessing self-efficacy in medical weight management.
September 3, 2018
José publishes followup study on fecal microbiota and bile acid effects of diet-induced weight loss.
Link: https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-018-1619-z
August 2, 2018
José is senior author on a collaborative study examining miR-148a in adiponectin sensitivity following bariatric weight loss.
Link: https://ec.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/ec/aop/ec-18-0205.xml?rskey=jM9v1K&result=1
May 1st, 2018
LTOR moves to its new home in NYU Health’s new Science Building!
December 6, 2017
José Alemán interviews with Contigo en la Comunidad. (Spanish)
July 5, 2017
Andrew Parziale, MD joins the Alemán lab.
Mar 9, 2017
LTOR is part of the NYULMC AHA Strategically Focused Obesity Research Network Center.
Feb 6, 2017
Akankasha Tiwari joins the Alemán lab as a research affiliate.
Feb 1, 2017
Migdalia Reid – Research Coordinator, joins the Alemán lab.
Dec 19, 2016
Michael Verano – Lab Technician/Lab Manager, joins the Alemán Lab
Nov 15, 2016
José Alemán moves into Alexandria West Tower, room 640.