Shawn Burgess, Ph.D.
Professor,
Center for Human Nutrition and Department of Pharmacology
Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Chair in Obesity and Diabetes
Shawn C. Burgess obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 2000 from the University of Texas at Dallas for research on using carbon-13 tracers and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to examine metabolic flux. From 2000-2003 he was a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Radiology at UT Southwestern where he studied substrate metabolism in β-cell and liver using tracer approaches.
In the Center for Human Nutrition, the Burgess Lab uses stable isotope tracers, NMR and mass spectrometry to study how metabolic flux is regulated by molecular physiology and altered by disease or pharmacology. His lab focuses on pathways of oxidative and biosynthetic metabolism in the context of obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes. They seek to understand how metabolic mechanisms contribute to pathologies of disease such as steatosis, oxidative stress and inflammation.