Dr. Mariana Gerschenson, Associate Dean for Research, Principal Investigator COBRE-Diabetes, Hawaii

Dr. Mariana Gerschenson is Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). She completed her doctoral training at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Experimental Pathology.

She pursued her postdoctoral work in the Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. She then worked at the National Cancer Institute and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute for six years in Bethesda, Maryland, and joined the University of Hawaiʻi in 2002.

Dr. Gerschenson is a tenured Professor in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. She leads a federally-funded translational research program to understand the mitochondrial mechanisms of cardiovascular and metabolic disease (including lipoatrophy, insulin resistance, diabetes, and hepatic steatosis) and neurological diseases, e.g. peripheral neuropathy and dementia.

Associate Dean for Research | John A. Burns School of Medicine (hawaii.edu)