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AFAR Grantee in the News: Research co-authored by Kristopher Burkewitz, PhD, on a new method of visualizing glucose metabolism at the single-cell level published in Nature Communications

AFAR Grantee in the News: Research co-authored by Kristopher Burkewitz, PhD, on a new method of visualizing glucose metabolism at the single-cell level published in Nature Communications

On July 1st, 2025, Nature Communicationspublished new research co-authored by AFAR Grantee Kristopher Burkewitz, PhD, on a new method of visualizing glucose metabolism at the single-cell level.

According to a related Vanderbilt University press release, “the pioneering work provides both a new method and insights into an organizational and molecular framework that can be used to study how metabolic processes are disrupted in diseases like diabetes, obesity, and cancer, as well as in aging and neurodegeneration.”

Dr. Burkewitz is a 2021 Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and AFAR Grants for Junior Faculty recipient.

Read “Chimeric antigen receptors discriminate between tau and distinct amyloid-beta specieshere.

Read the related Vanderbilt University press release here.

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