EMBO Young Investigator
Alejo Efeyan
YIP 2021–2025
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
Cellular metabolism
My lab studies how cells and organs sense and respond to both the overabundance and the scarcity of cellular nutrients, and how aberrant responses to fluctuations in nutrient levels drive metabolic defects that contribute to human cancer and aging.
Keywords
Nutrients / metabolism / aging / mTOR / mouse genetics