Richard Kibbey, MD/PhD
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Ensign Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology and Metabolism), and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Faculty Director, Core in Chemical Metabolism; Associate Director, Yale Program for Translational Biomedicine; Associate Chief of Research, EndocrinologyBiography
Dr. Kibbey obtained his undergraduate degrees in music (B.A.) and an honors degree in biochemistry (B.S.) at Trinity University in San Antonio in 1991. He then obtained his combined M.D. and Ph.D. at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in 2000. His Ph.D. was in Cellular and Molecular Biophysics and involved determining the NMR structure of peptides from the LDL receptor under his mentors Drs. R.G.W. Anderson and L. Gierasch. Subsequently, he went to Yale University in where he was selected for the ABIM short-track in Categorical Internal Medicine. In 2002 he stayed on for his Endocrinology fellowship at Yale and is now board certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology. While in his fellowship he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Gerald Shulman on metabolism in the pathophysiology of Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus. Here he identified mitochondrial GTP as a metabolic signal in the mitochondria sensing flux in the pancreatic beta-cell as a crucial component of the signal to secrete insulin. His laboratory also has developed a novel platform using stable isotopes and mass spectrometry named Mass Isotopomer MultiOrdinate Spectral Analysis (MIMOSA) that measures the flow of metabolism inside and between tissues. He is now an Associate Professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine/Endocrinology and Cellular & Molecular Physiology. He continues to see patients at Yale Health and has an independent NIH-supported laboratory doing research on islet and whole body physiology in order to understand/prevent/treat Type-2 diabetes.
Appointments
Endocrinology
ProfessorPrimaryCellular & Molecular Physiology
ProfessorSecondary
Other Departments & Organizations
- ABIM Physician-Scientist Research Pathway
- Cancer Signaling Networks
- Cellular & Molecular Physiology
- Diabetes Center
- Diabetes Research Center
- Endocrinology
- Fellowship Training
- Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Physiology
- Internal Medicine
- Kibbey Lab
- Liver Center
- Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
- Program in Translational Biomedicine (PTB)
- Yale Cancer Center
- Yale Center for Molecular and Systems Metabolism (YMSM)
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale Fibrosis Program
- Yale Medicine
- Yale Ventures
Education & Training
- Resident
- Yale University School of Medicine (2002)
- Intern
- Yale University School of Medicine (2001)
- MD/PhD
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (2000)
- BS
- Trinity University (1991)
- BA
- Trinity University (1991)
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MIMOSA
Mass Isotopomer MultiOrdinate Spectral Analysis.
News
- January 31, 2024
New Professors in the Department of Internal Medicine
- January 02, 2024
Building Community to Advance Metabolic Science
- November 17, 2023
Cancer Metabolism Symposium
- November 02, 2023Source: Medscape
Treating Obesity: Confronting a New Normal