Gökhan Hotamışlıgil

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غوكهان هوتاميشليغيل

24 June 1962 CE · 1382 AH

Turkish-American physician-scientist (born 1962 at Pazar, Rize), James Stevens Simmons Professor of Genetics and Metabolism at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He took his medical degree at Ankara University in 1986 and his PhD at Harvard Medical School in 1994, founded Harvard's Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases and chaired it for sixteen years. His laboratory established that chronic low-grade inflammation — the 'metaflammation' he named — underlies obesity, diabetes and fatty liver disease, and in 2026 he was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences.