Date: Nov. 24, 2021

Source: Biomedical Translational Research Institute

 Prof. Yin Zhinan’s team in JNU’s Biomedical Translational Research Institute published a paper in Nature magazine on Nov. 24 titled “IL-27 signaling promotes adpocyte thermogenesis and energy expenditure.”

Yin is the study's last author and corresponding author. Prof. Richard A Flavell of Yale University; Yang Hengwen, an associate researcher in the JNU institute; and Prof. Lu Ligong of Zhuhai Hospital Affiliated With Jinan University are the co-corresponding authors. Postdoctoral researchers Wang Qian and Li Dehai in Zhuhai Hospital Affiliated With Jinan University, associate researcher Cao Guangchao from the institute and Associate Prof. Shi Qiping of the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University are the co-first authors.

(The research published by Nature)

The research was supported by the key research and development plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the key project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Education's Center for Discipline Innovation, and the discipline construction funds for high-level hospitals from Zhuhai Hospital Affiliated With Jinan University.

(Prof. Yin Zhinan's team)

Link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04127-5