Janane F. Rahbani

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For 40+ years, we’ve known how UCP1 drives thermogenesis—but how UCP1-independent pathways are activated remained unknown. Thrilled to share our @Nature paper, led by Faiz Hussain, uncovering this mechanism: nature.com/articles/s4158…

@BarbaraLKee @jimmunol Congratulations 🎉

Our latest paper is now online @JImmunol! Congratulations to Roy Morgan and the rest of the team! Development and function of specified thymic iNKT1 cells critically depend on an Ets1-Tbet transcription factor axis academic.oup.com/jimmunol/artic…

@sung4400 So far so good!

@RahbaniLab Thanks Janane! Hope all good on your end!!

Excited to share our new paper published today in Nat. Commun. We show that homoharringtonine (HHT), an FDA-approved leukemia drug, selectively eliminates senescent adipose cells and improves metabolic health. (1/4) #Aging #Senescence #Metabolism nature.com/articles/s4146…

@ktsanov @NatureCancer Congratulations Kal!

Location, location, location! Now out in @NatureCancer, the final version of our study showing how a tumor's anatomic site can impact the function of driver gene mutations, using SMAD4 inactivation in pancreatic cancer as a clin. relevant example: nature.com/articles/s4301…. (1/3)

@SvenssonLab @annagloyn @StanfordPath @StanfordDRC @StanfordEndo Congratulations!

Honored to receive the Endocrine Society’s 2026 Richard E. Weitzman Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award. Grateful to my team and collaborators!!! #ENDO2026 #EndocrineSociety @annagloyn @StanfordPath @StanfordDRC @StanfordEndo

New PhD opportunity at TUM!

I’m proud of @UCCancerCenter’s national ranking in the top 1% and #1 in Illinois. It is a testament to our exceptional patient-centered care and innovative research. We are reshaping the future of cancer care @KunleOdunsiMD #NothingWillStopUs

@ErnstLengyel @KunleOdunsiMD @Nature @OvCa_UChicago Great paper, congrats 👏

Proud to share our new @Nature study: We developed the 1st NNMT inhibitor that reprograms cancer-associated fibroblasts, boosting immune response & stopping tumor growth in ovarian cancer models, especially when paired with immunotherapy. @OvCa_UChicago nature.com/articles/s4158…

🔥 Hot off the press: In a new @Nature study, @ErnstLengyel and team show that blocking NNMT in tumor-supporting cells restores immune response & stops ovarian cancer growth, offering a new strategy for hard to treat cancers. @OvCa_UChicago @uchicago_obgyn ow.ly/zzfZ50Wu3UW

New paper from @BunkJakub and Mina Ersin in our lab: CKB is the key creatine kinase driving UCP1-independent #thermogenesis in beige fat via the futile creatine cycle (FCC). doi.org/10.1016/j.molm… @McGillGCI @McGillBiochem @MolMetab

Today in @NatureComms, we show the #FutileCreatineCycle plays a key role in #thermogenesis, independent of UCP1. We also challenge the belief that brown adipocytes lack enough ATP synthase for thermogenesis. Congrats @BunkJakub! Full paper: rdcu.be/egoV7 @McGillGCI

@GalmozziAndrea @acypess @NatMetabolism @dylan_duerre @UWMadison @uwsmph @uofutah Congratulations!

Proud to share our work online today in @NatMetabolism! My first ever student and first author of the paper @dylan_duerre summarizes here perfectly! Big thanks to our colleagues @UWMadison, @uwsmph and @uofutah for this collaboration! #brownfat #Metabolism

@AkashPatnaik7 @ASCI @UCCancerCenter @UChicagoHemOnc @PCF_Science @TheVFoundation @theNCI Congratulations 👏

I receive my election to @ASCI with utmost humility & profound gratitude. Heartfelt thanks to my research team, mentors, mentees, patients & family without whom this would not be possible.@UCCancerCenter @UChicagoHemOnc @PCF_Science @TheVFoundation @theNCI linkedin.com/pulse/patnaik-…

It’s finally here! Check out our website for the Adipose Biology Conference: adiposebiology.com/registration with @beaudrj & @sung4400, partnered with @SableSys! Amazing speakers. Registration is now open!! 📍Montreal, Canada 📅Aug 19-20, 2025 #adiposebiology

I'm thrilled to co-organize the inaugural #AdiposeBiology Conference with @beaudrj, @sung4400, and @SableSys! 📍Montreal, Canada 📅Aug 19-20, 2025 Registration opens Jan 1, 2025. More info in the coming weeks. Hope to see you there! @AdiposeBiology #AdiposeBiology2025

@SvenssonLab @nbds_bio @StanfordPath @StanfordDRC Congratulations 👏

Our new paper in Cell Systems demonstrates how AlphaFold can predict the binding between ligands and cell surface receptors. Congrats @nbds_bio and co-authors from K.C. Garcia lab See paper here: cell.com/cell-systems/a… @StanfordPath @StanfordDRC

@Z_GerhartHines @Nature Congratulations 👏

Our new paper, "NK2R control of energy expenditure and feeding to treat metabolic diseases," is out today in @Nature. Here we identify a single receptor that can both peripherally increase energy expenditure and centrally suppress appetite. nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/12 🧵👇

Research Scientist position is open @ the UChicago Metabolomics Platform. Exciting position to work with cutting edge instrumentation to perform metabolomics, lipidomics and stable isotope tracing experiments! Please RT and forward onto anyone interested! uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…