John Kirwan, MSc, Ph.D., FACSM, George A. Bray, Jr. Endowed Super Chair in Nutrition, Executive Director- Professor. He also held faculty appointments at Case Western Reserve University as a professor of physiology and of nutrition.
His primary interests are to investigate the role of insulin resistance as an underlying cause of chronic disease, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, asthma, and chronic kidney failure. We employ lifestyle, pharmacological, and surgical interventions to identify key regulatory pathways associated with disease progression, with the goal of identifying novel therapeutic targets capable of altering the treatment and management of chronic conditions.
Kirwan leads an internationally acclaimed biomedical research program focused on diabetes, obesity, nutrition and exercise. He is currently Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on 10 U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, and to date, he has generated more than $50 million in research funding, most of which has come from NIH and the food, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. He has published more than 200 scientific papers related to diabetes and metabolism in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Diabetes and Diabetes Care.
John Kirwan is also working as Principal Investigator of Louisiana Clinical & Transitional Science Center, Louisiana.