John Haley PhD

John Haley, a Ph.D. student in the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The four-year fellowship will allow Haley to study the impact that signaling and metabolic pathways have on a nutrient-sensing complex in the liver.

Haley studies in the lab of David Guertin, PhD, professor of molecular medicine. The lab researches how cells sense and respond to varying levels of nutrients and how genetic mutations can alter those pathways to cause diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cancer.

Haley, who has a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Stony Brook University, became interested in metabolic research to better understand how diseases like obesity affect humans. In 2019, Haley received the Craig Mello Scholar Award, which the Molecular Medicine awards to graduate students in the department with “outstanding track records and bright futures.” Haley’s work aligns with the lab’s overall focus on understanding the mechanisms of metabolic signaling in health and disease.