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Posts by Jesse M. Platt, PhD, MD

  • Jesse M. Platt, PhD, MD, and colleagues discovered that insulin receptor forms condensates and detailed how changes in the physio-mechanical features of insulin receptor condensates affect insulin resistance, showing that insulin receptor condensates are key for insulin signaling, become dysfunctional in insulin resistance and thus could be new targets for diabetes drugs.

Biography

Jesse M. Platt, PhD, MD, is a practicing gastroenterologist and graduate assistant in the Division of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital and a research fellow in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Digestive Healthcare at Mass General

The Massachusetts General Hospital Digestive Healthcare Center is a collaborative practice of gastroenterologists, endoscopists, surgeons, radiologists, pathologists, hepatologists, oncologists and radiation oncologists dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of digestive diseases.