Month: November 2025


Makowski Lab was thrilled to host MeDOC in Memphis, our NCI-funded consortium to study obesity, metabolic dysfunction, and cancer risk.

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It was an honor to host our Metabolic Dysregulation and Cancer Risk Program (MeDOC) Consortium fall meeting at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center. MeDOC is a transdisciplinary approach to obesity-associated cancer research. Colleagues from across the US came to Memphis to share cutting edge research. Working together strengthened our resolve to understand links… Read More

Naveed Pervaiz and Jay Kim win awards!

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Drs. Minjeong “Jay” Kim, PhD and Naveed Pervaiz, PhD, postdoctoral fellows in the lab of Liza Makowski, PhD, were awarded best poster pitch awards at the MeDOC in Memphis consortium meeting. MeDOC, Metabolic Dysregulation and Cancer Risk Program, is a group of six universities funded by the National Cancer Institute to study obesity and cancer… Read More

The Makowski Lab celebrating the publication of the Bohm et al. article in JCI Insight April 2025

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