
Ana Cristancho
Instructor of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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History
Research
Forming functional fat: a growing understanding of adipocyte differentiation
Review · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology · 2011 · First of 2 authors · 1,119 citations
Genes & Development · 2008 · 696 citations
Retinol saturase promotes adipogenesis and is downregulated in obesity
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2009 · 76 citations

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Grants
- 2025–2030
Lifespan Effects of Prenatal and Perinatal Opioid Exposure on the Brain's Metabolic-Epigenetic Axis
National Institute on Drug Abuse · DP1
Contact PI · $1.1M · Children's Hosp of Philadelphia
- 2022–2027
Interrogation and Modulation of the Epigenome After Prenatal Hypoxic Brain Injury
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · K08
Contact PI · $1.1M · Children's Hosp of Philadelphia
- 2024–2026
Molecular and Bioenergetic Dynamics of in utero Chronic Hypoxia on Placenta and Brain
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · R21
Contact PI · $470.2K · Children's Hosp of Philadelphia




