Education:
M.D. -National Taiwan University
Ph.D. -Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University Joint Ph.D. Program of Translational Medicine
Position:
- Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Medical Genomics and Proteomics, Medical College, National Taiwan University
- Attending Physician, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, National Taiwan University Hospital
- Vice CEO, Center for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital
In conclusion, the elegant work by Bharath et al. provides a new link between IL-17 and aging, and highlighted the immunosuppressive effects of metformin through promoting autophagy in Th17 cells. These data add a new piece of evidence to the role of Th17 cells in ‘inflammaging’-associated chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dementia and periodontal diseases, in addition to previously well-known autoimmune diseases