Südhof secured his first independent position as Assistant Investigator at UT Southwestern in 1986, and received several promotions to the position of Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics (1991 — 2008), and Director of the Center for Basic Neuroscience. (kavliprize.org)
Working in mice that were put on high - fat diets to model diabetes, «we demonstrated that obesity increases the expression of pro-inflammatory genes in abdominal fat, but not in other organs such as the liver or muscle, nor in subcutaneous fat,» says Jongsoon Lee, PhD, Assistant Investigator in Joslin's Section on Pathophysiology and Molecular Pharmacology and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. (sciencedaily.com)
Wang returned to China in 2006 with a 5 - year assistant investigator position at the National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS) in Beijing. (sciencemag.org)