DEVELOPMENT MENOPAUSE OBESITY POLLUTION ADIPOSE BIOLOGY VASCULAR BIOLOGY
DEVELOPMENT MENOPAUSE OBESITY POLLUTION ADIPOSE BIOLOGY VASCULAR BIOLOGY
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How the environment shapes cardiometabolic health across the life course
We are a team of scientists at the Libin Cardiovascular Institute, University of Calgary. Using mouse models together with molecular and systems biology, we uncover the mechanisms that link environmental exposures to obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
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Three questions drive our work
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Sept 2026 Dr. Ji Soo Yoon awarded fellowship in Women's Heart and Brain Health from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
May 2026 New work selected as paper of the month in Diabetes Read article Featured in DiabetesBio
Dec 2025 Published review exploring the value and challenges of exposomics in child health research. Gheisary & Thompson, Pediatric Research
June 2025 Jessica Wager awarded a doctoral CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship
June 2025 New work identifies interleukin-6 as a signal mediating the recruitment of adipose progenitors. Wager et al. AJP Cell Physiol
May 2025 Thompson lab receives funding from CIHR to investigate sex-dependent crosstalk between macrophages and adipose progenitors. Read article
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