Charles Burant, M.S., Ph.D., M.D.
Biography
Charles Burant is professor of Internal Medicine, Section of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes. He holds the Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Professor of Metabolism endowed chair. His clinical interests are in the care of patients with obesity, type 2 diabetes, and related conditions. Burant is the Director of the Taubman Institute, leading its mission to support the careers of clinicians who performing research as a primary focus of their academic activities as well as supporting a diverse number of muli-investigator translational research programs. He is the founding director of Director of the Michigan Metabolomics Core which provides the research community with access to cutting edge technology and informatics support to integrate metabolite profiling into their research program.
- BS, University of Wisconsin
- M.S., University of Wisconsin
- Ph.D., Medical University of South Carolina
- M.D., Medical University of South Carolina
Research
Burant's personal research program centers on the interaction between genetically driven traits such as intrinsic oxidative capacity and environmental factors such as nutrients and exercise, in the development and treatment of insulin resistance, obesity and β-cell failure in both man and in animal models. Burant is a specific interest in intermediary metabolism and his laboratory combines genetics, epigenetics, metabolomics, and transcriptomics to understand the causes and phenotypic manifestation of cardiometabolic disease.
