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Minna Woo

ResearcherMedicineUniversity of Toronto

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Minna Woo

Researcher

Medicine

Health Sciences

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
27 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 7 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 14 research grants (13 CIHR, 1 NSERC), most recently in 2024.
Supervised 5 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2015.

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Research

Diabetes Insulin Resistance Cre-Loxp Aging Autophagy Sarcopenia Cardiovascular Disease Type 2 Diabetes

Latest papers

Intestinal epithelial cell-specific deletion of Jak2 disrupts gut homeostasis.
Scientific reports · 2026 · senior author
Association Between Clonal Hematopoiesis and Cardiometabolic Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
JACC. CardioOncology · 2026
Paradoxical oncogenic effects of hepatic Brca1 through modulating Bhmt.
Scientific reports · 2026 · senior author

All 98 publications

Latest funding

The effect of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on DHA synthesis rates and metabolism of high-fat diet induced obese and atherosclerotic mouse models
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$726,750
Engineering GLP-1-secreting cells from human pluripotent stem cells to enhance beta cell replacement therapies
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$952,425
Dissecting vagal insulin signaling in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
$1,009,800

All 22 grants and awards

98 publications.

Intestinal epithelial cell-specific deletion of Jak2 disrupts gut homeostasis.

D'Mello B, Rivera D, Rehal S, Pollock-Tahiri E, Li YZ, Dodington D, Wagner KU, Streutker C, Woo M

Scientific reports2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-48711-z PMID: 41998248

Association Between Clonal Hematopoiesis and Cardiometabolic Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

D'Mello B, Sheth N, Orchanian-Cheff A, Soave D, Abelson S, Woo M, Ke C

JACC. CardioOncology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccao.2026.04.005 PMID: 42307149

Paradoxical oncogenic effects of hepatic Brca1 through modulating Bhmt.

Ghebreselassie M, Park YJ, Nakib D, Dodington D, Patel P, Won S, Hakem A, Hakem R, MacParland S, Woo M

Scientific reports2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-39581-6 PMID: 41781465

BCL6 regulates skeletal muscle mass and mitochondrial bioenergetics.

Usmani SE, Leduc-Gaudet JP, Chau S, Bellissimo CA, Vohra S, Desjardins K, Pollock-Tahiri E, Shi I, Chun F, Capobianco A, Delisle P, Dupebe W, Cefis M, Marcangeli V, Ghebreselassie M, Liang YC, Seki Y, Mayaki D, Hussain S, Goligher E, Kapoor M, Locke M, Gouspillou G, Woo M

Molecular metabolism2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2026.102367 PMID: 41985672

B cells drive CD4 T cell immunosenescence and age-associated health decline.

Khan S, Chakraborty M, Wu F, Chen N, Wang T, Chan YT, Sayad A, Kotlyar M, Alibhai FJ, Woo M, Li RK, Husain M, Jurisica I, Gehring AJ, Ohashi PS, Furman D, Tsai S, Winer S, Winer DA

Science immunology2026

DOI: 10.1126/sciimmunol.adv7615 PMID: 41616067

PTEN regulates vagal-insulin signaling to optimize autonomic output determining peripheral inflammatory and metabolic homeostasis.

Li YZ, Son JE, Vo N, Bellisimo C, Lee JH, Rapps J, Pollock-Tahiri E, Ghebreselassie M, Chen CT, Bazinet RP, Billia F, Suzuki A, Hui CC, Mak TW, Sung HK, Yoo P, Woo M

Nature communications2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-67192-8 PMID: 41372197

Platelet Jak2 deficiency accelerates atherosclerosis with increased inflammatory response.

Kim D, Li YZ, Yang J, Lin B, Wang MY, Liu JJY, Bai JQA, Farber G, Abdul Razzaq F, Pollock-Tahiri E, Khoury C, Lei X, Zhu G, Wagner KU, Tikhonova AA, Ni H, Woo M

The Journal of biological chemistry2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2025.110603 PMID: 40825505

MOB1 deletion in murine mature adipocytes ameliorates obesity and diabetes.

Nishio M, Yamaguchi K, Otani J, Yuguchi K, Kohno D, Sasaki T, Kitamura T, Shinohara M, Soga T, Kawamura K, Sasaki AT, Oshima M, Hikasa H, Woo M, Sasaki T, Nishina H, Nakao K, Maehama T, Suzuki A

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2424741122 PMID: 40258148

The effect of surgical management in mitigating fragility fracture risk among individuals with primary hyperparathyroidism

Golbon B, Habashi R, Shellenberger J, Griffiths R, Avery L, Woo M, Pincus D, Eskander A, Pasternak JD

Surgery20253 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2024.08.052

A novel fatty acid mimetic with pan-PPAR partial agonist activity inhibits diet-induced obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.

Sahin C, Melanson JR, Le Billan F, Magomedova L, Ferreira TAM, Oliveira AS, Pollock-Tahari E, Saikali MF, Cash SB, Woo M, Romeiro LAS, Cummins CL

Molecular metabolism2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.molmet.2024.101958 PMID: 38763495

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Minna Woo

Research

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Latest funding

Intestinal epithelial cell-specific deletion of Jak2 disrupts gut homeostasis.

Association Between Clonal Hematopoiesis and Cardiometabolic Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Paradoxical oncogenic effects of hepatic Brca1 through modulating Bhmt.

BCL6 regulates skeletal muscle mass and mitochondrial bioenergetics.

B cells drive CD4 T cell immunosenescence and age-associated health decline.

PTEN regulates vagal-insulin signaling to optimize autonomic output determining peripheral inflammatory and metabolic homeostasis.

Platelet Jak2 deficiency accelerates atherosclerosis with increased inflammatory response.

MOB1 deletion in murine mature adipocytes ameliorates obesity and diabetes.

The effect of surgical management in mitigating fragility fracture risk among individuals with primary hyperparathyroidism

A novel fatty acid mimetic with pan-PPAR partial agonist activity inhibits diet-induced obesity and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.

Frequent collaborators

Razqallah Hakem

Adria Giacca

Amira Klip

Eldad Zacksenhaus

Mamatha Bhat

Tianru Jin

Ravi Retnakaran

Xiaohong Wu

Sue Tsai

Igor Jurisica

Ana Konvalinka

Satya Dash

Jacques Genest

Cynthia Tsien

Chi-Chung Hui

Jonathan Rocheleau

Herbert Gaisano

Ren-Ke Li

Nazia Selzner

Vladimir Vuksan

Mansoor Husain

Leonardo Salmena

Mathew Sermer

Bernard Zinman

Sabah Hussain

Sergi Clotet-Freixas

Norman Rosenblum

James Johnson

Denis Soulet

Bruce Verchere

Tak Mak

Michael Glogauer

Rogeh Habashi