Shannon Reilly, PhD — Assistant Professor of Metabolic Health in Medicine — Scholars @ Weill Cornell Medicine

ScholarsBetaWeill Cornell Medicine

Highlights

1
Diabetes · 2023
SRShannon Reilly
PMID: 36449000PMCID: PMC9935493DOISenior author32 citations
2
Nature metabolism · 2020
SRShannon Reilly
PMID: 32694788PMCID: PMC7384260DOIFirst author53 citations
3
The Journal of clinical investigation · 2021
SRShannon Reilly
PMID: 33822771PMCID: PMC8121507DOIFirst author16 citations

Publications

43

Funding

4 View NIH portfolio on RePORTER ↗

Active

1 grant

PI
Regulation of fatty acid metabolism in adipocytes
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases · 2022–2025
R01DK126944-03

Completed grants (3)

PI
An Il-6/Stat3 Autocrine Axis in Adipose Tissue
NIDDK · 2018–2020 · via NIH RePORTER
R03DK118195-02
PI
Il-6 and metabolic crosstalk between tissues
NIDDK · 2015–2018 · via NIH RePORTER
K01DK105075-03
PI
The role of non-canonical IKKs in metabolic disease
NIDDK · 2012–2015 · via NIH RePORTER
F32DK096851-03

News mentions

1 View all WCM news ↗

Triggering Self-Combustion in Fat Cells for Weight Loss
February 23, 2026
Ordinary fat cells in obese animals can be induced to burn energy stores, generating substantial heat, according to a preclinical study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

Mentoring

1 All publications with mentees →

PB
Pania Bridge-Comer
Postdoc mentee · 2022–2024
- JNK1 mediates serine phosphorylation of STAT3 in response to fatty acids released by lipolysis.
  Journal of lipid research · 2026
- Measuring the Rate of Lipolysis in Ex vivo Murine Adipose Tissue and Primary Preadipocytes Differentiated In Vitro.
  Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2023
- Adipocyte-Secreted IL-6 Sensitizes Macrophages to IL-4 Signaling.
  Diabetes · 2023
View all 3 →