{"id":36142,"date":"2024-05-06T13:41:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T17:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=36142"},"modified":"2025-04-09T18:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:28:54","slug":"yazan-alwarawrah-phd","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pediatrics\/people\/yazan-alwarawrah-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Yazan Alwarawrah, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Alwarawrah is a Research Assistant Professor in the field of Pediatric Endocrinology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Alwarawrah&#8217;s research interests focus on targeting metabolism for the treatment of disease. Currently, he is studying T cell metabolism in the context of obesity-associated protective immunity dysfunction where he uses the diet induced obesity mouse model to study the effect of obesity on T cell metabolism and function in different tissues using metabolic and flow cytometric approaches. 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