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Brian Finck

@bnfinck

Professor at Washington University School of Med. Scientist, kid chauffeur, and Cardinals fan. Illini alum. Views are mine, not my employer's.

 O'Fallon, IL
gns.wustl.edu/about/faculty/brian-finck-phd/
Joined July 2017
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Our Diabetes Day Symposium takes place on Thursday, November 5, and we’re pleased to welcome keynote speaker Dr. Randy J. Seeley of @umichmedicine! For information on poster presenting or our new Data Blitz Session, visit bit.ly/4iH1f6i.
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0/3 3 Ks in his debut never been more obvious, this guy is such a bum.
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Joshua Báez to be called up by the Cardinals, per @mikedeportes.
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Joshua Báez went 3-for-4 in his MLB debut, hitting 3 home runs in his first 3 major league at-bats. Báez is the first player in MLB history to achieve such a feat. mlb.com/news/joshua-ba… mlb.com/gameday/cardin…
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Coach Dee Brown@deebrown11Jul 29
Let’s reshare this moment. Let’s get the chills and eyes water up together! D-Will was really good at Basketballl. ILL #RealHooper
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Illinois vs. Arizona (2005)
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How would a cow even kill a shark?
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@UberFactsFeb 23
Cows kill more people every year than sharks
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Mo Habibi@M_Habibi2009Feb 2
Truly honored to receive the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Postdoctoral Fellowship for my research at @WashUDeptMed! Grateful for the incredible mentorship of @bnfinck. Thanks @AmDiabetesAssn for supporting my research!
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@JCI_insight8 Dec 2025
A study to take to #heart This issue’s cover features work by Jiaxi Guo et al. on the protective role lipin1 plays in the heart following ischemic injury by preserving lipid homeostasis: doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.… The image shows neonatal rat cardiomyocytes (red) treated with stearic acid, lipid droplets (green), and nuclei (blue).
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Irfan Lodhi@LodhiLab17 Sep 2025
Happy to share our new paper in @Nature led by staff scientist Xuejing Liu @Jessielxj2. We report identification of a UCP1-independent pathway of brown fat thermogenesis involving ATP-consuming metabolism of BCFA in peroxisomes. #Obesity #T2D nature.com/articles/s41586-0… @WashUDeptMed
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Breaking! The FDA has approved Wegovy #semaglutide to treat #MASH in adults with moderate-to-advanced fibrosis. fda.gov/drugs/news-events-hu…
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Natalie Niemi@nieminm26 May 2025
Niemi lab grad student Hannah Pletcher recently joined @preLights and wrote up a nice highlight of recent work from @LucasBSullivan - check it out here! bit.ly/3Z0VeXo
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Coolest part of this story is Yibin Wang and his group in Singapore have arrived at the same conclusion in parallel Independent co-discovery = reproducible science Stay tuned for the papers from both groups!
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Phillip White (@phillipwhite14, @DukeMedSchool) uncovers a new role for an orphan mitochondrial solute carrier in the BCAA metabolic pathway at @CellSymposia #CSMetabolites2025. Don’t miss out – last chance to register! hubs.li/Q03lzRwJ0
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Natalie Niemi@nieminm31 Mar 2025
Abstract deadline for UMDF 2025 is TODAY! Submit your abstracts here: umdf.smapply.org/prog/2025po…
Natalie Niemi (@nieminm) profile pictureNatalie Niemi@nieminm28 Mar 2025
Come to St. Louis this summer for the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation MitoMed 2025 Conference! We have a fantastic line up with lots of opportunities for short talks. We're also running a Masterclass for Early Career Investigators. More info here: umdfconference.org
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THE ENDING OF BULLS-LAKERS OMG 😱😱😱
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@ESPNRittenberg28 Feb 2025
NCAA rules committee says the "T-signal," which came up in the Illinois/South Carolina bowl game, will now result in a team giving up its right to return a kick.
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Is it a bad sign if the weather is the most certain part of your agricultural future? Here's what Project 2025 has to say about agriculture. farmprogress.com/farm-policy…
Risky business: Ag enters period of extreme uncertainty

Risky business: Ag enters period of extreme uncertainty

Is it a bad sign if the weather is the most certain part of your agricultural future? Here’s what we know for sure and how farmers can navigate it.

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I had to slow it down Poster it!!!!
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Celebrating the memory of David Wasserman
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It's a few days late for festivus, but one of my grievances is when people misuse "less" instead of "fewer" (fewer applies to anything you can count). Meanwhile, I cannot spell "restaurant" correctly without spellcheck.
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Beyond ketosis: the search for the mechanism underlying SGLT2-inhibitor benefit continues: jci.org/articles/view/187097 Justin H. Berger and @bnfinck @washumedicine comment on Goedeke et al. (jci.org/articles/view/176708)
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Tessa Lochetto@tloch_12 Dec 2024
So incredibly happy to announce I have been awarded a 2-year Predoctoral Fellowship from the @AHAScience. Thank you to my amazing PI (@nieminm), co-mentor (@bnfinck), rec letter writers, and @The_DataDragon for all the support, feedback, and encouragement during this process.🫀🥳
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Really glad to see this published. Great work @AJLutkewitte!
Journal of Clinical Investigation (@jclinicalinvest) profile pictureJournal of Clinical Investigation
@jclinicalinvest10 Dec 2024
How does dysfunctional adipose tissue promote metabolic disease? jci.org/articles/view/169722 Andrew LaPoint @AJLutkewitte & team show adipocyte Lipin1 loss drives adipose tissue dysfunction leading to perturbations in systemic metabolism @bnfinck @KCMORE_KUMC
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