Poornima Sankar

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Poornima Sankar

Poornima Sankar is a graduate student at the Department of Immunology and Microbial Disease at Albany Medical Center. She studies the immunology of tuberculosis. She is passionate about research as well as science communication. She is an ASBMB Today volunteer contributor.

Articles by Poornima Sankar

Journal of Lipid Research

Finding the transcriptional basis of diet-induced obesity

Aug. 20, 2024

A recent study shows the previously unknown role of hepatic transcription factor FOXA3 in metabolic disease.

Journal News

From the journals: JLR

May 3, 2024

How lipogenesis works in liver steatosis. Removing protein aggregates from stressed cells. Linking plasma lipid profiles to cardiovascular health. Read about recent papers on these topics.

In Memoriam

In memoriam: Charles Kasper

Dec. 4, 2023

He was a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and an ASBMB member since 1970.

Annual Meeting

In failure, Simcox finds a way to learn

Nov. 16, 2023

She has won the ASBMB鈥檚 Walter A. Shaw Young Investigator in Lipid Research Award.