@rex_ahima

Professor of Medicine, Public Health & Nursing; @hopkinsmedicine;@johnshopkinsSPH; @JHUNursing;@JHU_BDPs; @theNAMedicine; @aaas;@americanacad;@TheEndoSociety

 Baltimore, Maryland
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Joined December 2016
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2026 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Francis Halzen youtu.be/6zIvwzjnvTc

Belgium's Francis Halzen wins Nobel physics prize | AFP

Belgian physicist Francis Halzen wins the Nobel Prize in Physics fo...

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 nobelprize.org/prizes/medici…

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2026 was awarded jointly to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel "for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics"

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Obexelimab for the Treatment of IgG4-Related Disease | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…

Obexelimab for the Treatment of IgG4-Related Disease | NEJM

IgG4-related disease is a chronic fibroinflammatory condition that can affect virtually any organ system. Glucocorticoid agents are a cornerstone of therapy but are limited by toxic effects, and re...

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Atorvastatin, Cardiovascular Events, and Disability-free Survival in Older Adults | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…

Atorvastatin, Cardiovascular Events, and Disability-free Survival in Older Adults | NEJM

The effectiveness and safety of statins for the primary prevention of cardiovascular events and the extension of disability-free survival among older adults remain uncertain. We conducted a double-...

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Survodutide Once Weekly in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…

Survodutide Once Weekly in Adults with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes | NEJM

For persons living with both type 2 diabetes and obesity, weight management may be the most effective therapy for type 2 diabetes. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists have potent weig...

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Lean adipocyte oxylipin signaling restrains breast cancer through ferroptosis | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Lean adipocyte oxylipin signaling restrains breast cancer through ferroptosis

Obesity increases breast cancer risk and tumor aggressiveness, yet the mechanisms underlying this association remain unclear. In this work, we identify a tumor-suppressive lipid signaling pathway in...

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2026 Winners - Lasker Foundation laskerfoundation.org/winners…

2026 Winners - Lasker Foundation

Emmanuel Mignot Masashi Yanagisawa Basic Research Orexin—a brain peptide that maintains wakefulness Learn More > Takehisa Kitazawa Kunihiro Hattori Tomoyuki Igawa Clinical Research Bispecific...

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Orexin—a brain peptide that maintains wakefulness - Lasker Foundation laskerfoundation.org/winners…

Orexin—a brain peptide that maintains wakefulness - Lasker Foundation

Explore All 2026 Winners & Awards > Emmanuel Mignot Stanford University School of Medicine Masashi Yanagisawa University of Tsukuba For identification of orexin, a brain peptide that maintains...

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Porcine kidney xenotransplantation as a bridge to allotransplantation: a first-in-human study - The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Porcine kidney xenotransplantation as a bridge to allotransplantation: a first-in-human study

This case shows that porcine kidney xenotransplantation can provide prolonged renal support and be discontinued without clinically significant allosensitisation or zoonotic infection. Early cellular...

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The Hormone Cell Atlas decodes the human endocrine system, one cell at... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes as allostatic responses to chronic nutrient excess: Cell Metabolism cell.com/cell-metabolism/ful…

Insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes as allostatic responses to chronic nutrient excess

Challenging dogmas, Prentki et al. propose an alternative paradigm of obesity-related type 2 diabetes, interpreting insulin resistance, reduced glucose-induced insulin secretion, mild hyperglycemia,...

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Panel discussion at the Bloomberg Center on insulin affordability and diabetes. linkedin.com/posts/melisa-li…

Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) underscored a powerful truth: consti...

Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) underscored a powerful truth: constituent stories can spark real change. Thanks to Theodore DeWeese for moderating a memorable discussion...

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Please Tell Me It Is Only a Nightmare—The Proposed Dismantling of the United States Federal Research Infrastructure diabetesjournals.org/care/ar…

Please Tell Me It Is Only a Nightmare—The Proposed Dismantling of the United States Federal...

The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors and do not represent those of the American Diabetes Association or the autho

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GLP-1 Receptor Agonists | New England Journal of Medicine nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists | NEJM

Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are incretin analogues that promote glucose-mediated insulin release and are used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity. GLP-1 receptor ago...

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Obesity trends in developed vs developing nations nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Obesity rise plateaus in developed nations and accelerates in developing nations

Nature - Global analysis of obesity trends from 1980 to 2024 in 200 countries and territories using data from 4,050 population-based studies reveals that framing obesity as a single global epidemic...

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My recent commentary on high-fat diet and GI motility disorder. Connecting a Western diet, palmitic acid, and enteric neuropathy jci.org/articles/view/205830
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Pro-aging effects of chronic glucocorticoid signaling: Cell Metabolism cell.com/cell-metabolism/ful…

Pro-aging effects of chronic glucocorticoid signaling

Glucocorticoids regulate stress responses, metabolism, and inflammation, and chronic exposure promotes processes resembling accelerated aging through impaired autophagy, mitochondrial function, and...

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JCI - New and emerging therapies in type 1 diabetes mellitus jci.org/articles/view/205520
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Leptin: 30 years later. Written with my former student and valued colleague ⁦@rex_ahima⁩ annualreviews.org/content/jo…

Leptin: 30 Years Later

The discovery of leptin as an adipocyte-secreted hormone encoded by the ob gene whose absence produces severe obesity that is corrected by leptin repletion in both mice and humans was a transformat...

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Physical activity and preclinical Alzheimer disease nature.com/articles/s41591-0…

Physical activity as a modifiable risk factor in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease

Nature Medicine - In cognitively normal older adults at risk for Alzheimer’s dementia, physical inactivity was associated with faster tau protein buildup and cognitive decline.

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