Dr. Asish K. Saha is presently working as a Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Boston University, USA. He is also working as a Director of the Biochemistry & Molecular Biology core at Boston University. He also worked as Principal Liaison of the Diabetes Section at Boston University with the laboratories of Professors Marc Prentki (University of Montreal: Studies of malonyl CoA decarboxylase), E. W. Kraegen (Garvan Institute, Australia: Characterization of AMPK, malonyl CoA and insulin resistance in a glucose-infused rodent model) and Suad Efendic and Peter Bavenholm (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm) on various funded projects. He had also participated in joint research efforts with the laboratories of Erik Richter (University of Copenhagen), C. Ronald Kahn (Harvard Medical School), and Robert Sherwin and Rory McCrimmon (Yale). In addition, he is an integral contributor to program grants dealing with Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in his role as a Director.
His research interests are Diabetes and AMP-activated protein kinase/malonyl CoA mechanism and its dysregulation in the pathogenesis of the metabolic syndrome.
