Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS is the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Chair in Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Medicine. She is the Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity in the UCSF School of Medicine, and she directs the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, a research center focused on discovery, implementation, policy, advocacy, and community engagement for communities at risk for poor health and inadequate healthcare.

My laboratory studies the neurobiology of homeostasis in the mouse, including especially the mechanisms that control hunger, thirst, and body temperature. Our goal is to eludicate the structure and dynamics of the underlying neural circuits, so that we can begin to understand how these circuits give rise to motivated behaviors and further how they become dysregulated in conditions such as obesity. To address this challenge, we develop new technologies that enable the use of RNA sequencing to molecularly profile neurons that have specific activity patterns or connectivity.

Formation and regeneration of epithelial tubes.