Dr. Marc Hellerstein

Dr. Hellerstein is Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of California, Berkeley, where he occupies an Endowed Chair (Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Chair). He is also Professor of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition in the Department of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, where he ran the diabetes clinic at SF General Hospital for 25 years. Dr. Hellerstein’s medical training was at Yale Medical School and he completed a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in addition to medical training in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism.

Dr. Hellerstein’s major research interest has been the measurement in vivo of metabolic fluxes through pathways critical to health and disease, as biomarkers for understanding metabolic control and its disorders, including applications in drug development and clinical diagnostics. This research has resulted in over 300 publications, 80 issued patents and participation on several editorial boards, including Science Translational Medicine. Dr. Hellerstein co-founded a medical diagnostics and drug development biotech company, KineMed, Inc., in 2001.