Paul Michael Yen

• Professor, Signature Research Programme in Cardiovascular & Metabolic Disorders, Duke-NUS, SIngapore

Dr. Yen is a Professor at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore and Head of the Laboratory of Hormonal Regulation in the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders Program. He obtained his M.D. from Johns Hopkins, completed his residency in internal medicine at University of Chicago and his endocrinology fellowship at NIH. Prior to Duke-NUS he served on the faculty at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and as section chief at NIDDK, NIH. He has served on the editorial boards of Endocrinology, Molecular Endocrinology, and Thyroid. His current research interests are hormonal regulation of hepatic autophagy and lipid metabolism in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease as well as epigenetic regulation of metabolic genes by thyroid hormone. He published more than 100 articles (h-index 66) with more than 31 000 citations.