Karen Teff
{{Short description|Geneticist}}
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| workplaces = National Institutes of Health, Monell Chemical Senses Center, University of Pennsylvania
| alma_mater = McGill University
| doctoral_advisor = Simon Young
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| known_for = Effects of fructose on triglycerides in women
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Karen Teff is a biologist and geneticist. She received her education in Canada and has since been working in the United States.{{Cite web|title=Neurotree - Karen L. Teff|url=https://neurotree.org/beta/peopleinfo.php?pid=31302|access-date=2021-11-19|website=neurotree.org}} Teff has spent most of her career studying the effects of diabetes and other related diseases on humans.{{Cite web|title=Karen L. Teff, Ph.D. {{!}} NIDDK|url=https://www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/staff-directory/biography/teff-karen|access-date=2021-11-19|website=National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases|language=en-US}}{{Dead link|date=March 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Career
She currently works as Program Director, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases under the National Institutes of Health,{{cite web
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|title=Karen L. Teff, Ph.D.
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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222124118/http://www.niddk.nih.gov/about-niddk/staff-directory/extramural/karen-teff/Pages/biography.aspx
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}} and worked formerly at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. She worked for the University of Pennsylvania as the director of translational research for the university Diabetes Research Center from 2006 to 2013 as well as the director of clinical and translational research from 2011 to 2013.
Education
Karen Teff received her undergraduate degree in nutrition from McGill University, where she worked under Gloria Tannenbaum at the Children's Hospital of Montreal. She later earned her Ph.D. from McGill University in 1988 under Simon Young.
Research
In 1989, Teff published a paper concerning the effects of carbohydrate-heavy breakfasts on satiety.
{{Cite journal|last1=Teff|first1=Karen L.|author-link=|last2=Young|first2=S. N.|year=1989|title=The effect of protein or carbohydrate breakfasts on subsequent plasma amino acid levels, satiety and nutrient selection in normal males.|journal=Pharmacol. Biology Behav.|volume=34|issue=4|pages=829–837|doi=10.1016/0091-3057(89)90282-7|pmid=2623036|s2cid=12739636}} In 2004, she published a paper on the effects of fructose on triglycerides in women.{{Cite journal|last1=Teff|first1=Karen L.|last2=Elliot|first2=Sharon|year=2004|title=Dietary Fructose Reduces Circulating Insulin and Leptin, Attenuates Postprandial Suppression of Ghrelin, and Increases Triglycerides in Women|journal=Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism|volume=89|issue=6|pages=2963–2972|doi=10.1210/jc.2003-031855|pmid=15181085|doi-access=free}}
Teff is currently working at the NIDDK studying how bariatric surgery effects diabetes and diabetes-related diseases. She was previously the principal investigator of a clinical trial at the University of Pennsylvania Institute for diabetes, obesity, and metabolism, studying nervous system anti-inflammatory pathways in connection to obesity and diabetes.{{Cite web|title=Clinical Trial - PI - Karen Teff, PhD|url=https://www.med.upenn.edu/idom/trials_teff1.html|access-date=2021-11-19|website=www.med.upenn.edu}} Teff's most recent publication in the American Journal of Physiology. Endocrinology and Metabolism focused on how the parasympathetic nervous system contributes to an increase in insulin secretion in patients with above average blood insulin levels.{{Cite journal|last1=Rickels|first1=Michael R.|last2=Perez|first2=Elys M.|last3=Peleckis|first3=Amy J.|last4=Alshehabi|first4=Erica|last5=Nguyen|first5=Huong-Lan|last6=Stefanovski|first6=Darko|last7=Rickels|first7=Karl|last8=Teff|first8=Karen L.|date=2018-08-01|title=Contribution of parasympathetic muscarinic augmentation of insulin secretion to olanzapine-induced hyperinsulinemia|journal=American Journal of Physiology. Endocrinology and Metabolism|volume=315|issue=2|pages=E250–E257|doi=10.1152/ajpendo.00315.2017|issn=0193-1849|pmc=6139492|pmid=29351487}}
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