Donna M. Lehman, Ph.D.

• Professional Background

  Education

  • 1999 - PhD - Cellular and Structural Biology - University of Texas Health Science Center
  • 1994 - MS - Computational Biology - University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Lab
  • 1985 - BS - Biology (Summa Cum Laude) - Texas A&M University

  Highlights

  2016 Nominee UTHSA Presidential Excellence in Teaching Award: Department of Cellular and Structural Biology.

  Appointments

  • 9/2008-Present - Associate Professor of Medicine - UTHSA

• Instruction & Training

  • 1/2018 - Present, Genetics and Genetic Epidemiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center
  • 4/2017 - Present, Stem Cell Biology, The University of Texas Health Science Center
  • 12/2014 - Present, Fundamentals of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center
  • 2/2014 - Present, Musculoskeletal Dermatology, The University of Texas Health Science Center
  • 9/2013 - Present, Molecules to Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center
  • 9/2013 - 8/2020, UTHSCSA
  • 5/2010 - Present, Post-Doctoral Student Supervision, UT Health Science Center San Antonio
  • 9/2008 - Present, Medical Genetics, The University of Texas Health Science Center
  • 6/2006 - Present, UTHSCSA

• Research & Grants

  My lab: proficient in the generation and use of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells and their differentiation into CNS neurons, adipocytes and cardiomyocytes (for many clinical disorders, the disease relevant tissue is not accessible for functional analyses); developed and published a unique protocol for generating neuronal cultures that model hypothalamic neurons of the ARC which are key neurons in regulating whole body energy metabolism through mechanisms such as regulation of appetite, browning of fat, and gluconeogenesis; using our novel human models, we study CNS control of obesity, glucose homeostasis and metabolic disease as well as hypothalamic neurogenesis and have recently published unique findings on obesity genetics.

  Research profile

  Grants

  Project #: 1R01DK114661-01A, Funding Agency: NIH/NIDDK, Title: Human hypothalamic neuronal epigenomics and risk for obesity, Status: ACTIVE, Period: 09/2018 - 09/2022, Role: Principal Investigator.
  Project #: 1U01DK085524-06, Funding Agency: NIH, Title: Discovery of Functional Variants in Type 2 Diabetes Genes in Mexican Americans, Status: ACTIVE, Period: 04/2015 – 04/2021, Role: Co-Principal Investigator.
  Project #: 1 UL1 RR025767-0, Funding Agency: NIH, Title: Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science/Research Education, Status: Active, Period: 05/2008 - present, Role: Contributor.
  Project #: R56DK10915801A1, Funding Agency: NIH/NIDDK, Title: Temporal epigenetic regulation in human hypothalamic neurons and body weight, Status: COMPLETE, Period: 09/2017 - 08/2019, Role: Principal Investigator.
  Project #: 5P20CA165589, Funding Agency: NIH/NCI, Title: The Cancer Bioinformatics Initiative: A UTSA/UTHSCSA Partnership (1 of 2), Status: COMPLETE Period: 09/2012 - 08/2017, Role: Co-Investigator.

• Service

  School

  01/2018 - Present: MEDI6067Genomic Healthcare, Post-graduate, Course director
  04/2017 - Present: CSBL6059 Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Graduate
  12/2014 - Present: INTD5000 Fundamentals of Biomedical Sciences, Graduate
  02/2014 - Present CIRC6013 Form & Function, Post Graduate
  09/2013 - Present CIRC5007 Molecules to Medicine, Undergraduate/Graduate

  Institutional

  09/2013 - Present: Discipline Coordinator for Genetics for UTHSCSA SOM Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) Program.
  06/2006 – Present: Committee on Graduate Studies (COGS) member for Master of Science in Clinical Investigation (MSCI) Program. The COGS oversees all aspects of the program related to program requirements, curriculum development, student admissions and progress as well as credentialing of graduate faculty.
  11/2006-05/2019: Postdoctoral Fellowship Mentor and Supervisor

• Publications

  Abstract

  Diaz-Badillo A, Lopez-Alvarenga JC, Totomoch A, Hernandez-Ruiz J, Akhtar F, Mummidi S, Arya R, Jenkinson CP, Comuzzie AG, Curran J, Dyer TD, Lehman DM, Blangero J, Duggirala R. Relationship between Sarcopenic Obesity and Cardiometabolic risk in Mexican-Americans; The role of adiponectin; 2019 Nov. (Obesity supplement). Hernandez -Ruiz J, Lopez-Alvarenga JC, Garces MJ, Garibay-Nieto N, Villanueva-Ortega E, Gloria-Quiepo, Resendez RG, Arya R, Mummidi S, Comuzzie AG, Jenkinson CP, Lehman DM, Lynch JL, Hale DE, DeFronzo RA, Blangero J, Duggirala R. Different Obesity-Related Liver Function Profiles Exhibited by Mexican-American and Mexican children; 2019 Nov. (Obesity supplement). Alvarenga JL, arya r, chittoor g, puppala s, farook v, resendez r, lehman dm, defronzo r, mummidi s, jenkinson c, lynch j, blangero j, duggirala r. Acanthosis Nigricans as a Composite Marker of Cardiometabolic Risk and Its Complex Association with Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Mexican American Children; 2019 Jun. (Diabetes). Kumar S, Curran JE, Lehman DM, Duggirala R, Glahn D, Blangero J. Parkinson?s disease gene identification using differential gene expression analysis of iPSC generated neural stem cells; 2017 Jan. (2017 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics). Diego VP, Fowler S, Puppala S, Farook VS, Chittoor G, Resendez R, Alvarenga JC, Mummidi S, Vanamala J, Almasy L, Curran JE, Comuzzie, AG, Lehman DM, Jenkinson C, Lynch JL, DeFronzo RA, Blangero J, Hale DE, Duggirala R, Arya R. Genotype-by-multivariate dietary environment interaction effects on cardiometabolic risk factors in Mexican American children: The SAFARI Study; 2016 Nov. (Am J Hum Genet). Arya R, Puppala S, Fowler S, Srinivas M, Farook VS, Dyer T, Almeida M, Peralta J, Resendez, R, Lopez-Alvarenga JC, Jenkinson CP, Comuzzie AG, Goring HHH, Mahaney M, Almasy L, Lehman DM, Curran JE, Duggirala R, Blangero J. Genome-wide association analysis localizes a novel locus for abdominal obesity in Mexican Americans; 2016 Nov. (Obesity). Wang C, Lehman D, Lam Y, Kuhn J, Mahalingam D, Weitman S, Hernandez J, Lorenzo C, Downs J, Espinoza S, Ramirez A. Metformin reduces prostate cancer disparity in men with type 2 diabetes?; 2015 Jun. (Diabetes; vol. 64, no. S1). Lehman DM, Yao L, Liu Y, Ayala I, Mahesula S, Chen Y, Kokovay E. TCF7L2 in Hypothalamic Neurogenesis in Mice and Men; 2015 Jan. (Diabetes; vol. 64, no. S1). Liu Y, Yao L, Chen Y, and Lehman DM. Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neurons - a novel model to investigate genetic control of metabolic homeostasis UTHSCSA; 2014 May. (IIMS 5th Annual Frontiers in Translational Science Symposium). Jun G, Almeida M, Cingolani P, Wood, AR, Fuchsberger C, Teslovich TM, Dyer TD, Curran JE, Grunstad J, Blackwell TW, Lehman DM, Grossman R, Lincoln SE, Laramie JM, Boehnke M, McCarthy MI, Frayling TM, Sladek R, Duggirala R, Blangero J, Abecasis GR. Detecting functional rare variants relating to type 2 diabetes using deep whole genome sequencing; 2012 Jun. (Diabetes; vol. 61, no. S1). Almeida M, Jun G, Teslovich TM, Wood AR, Frayling TM, Fuchsberger C, Cingolani P, Blackwell TW, Dyer TD, Curran JE, Lehman DM, Sladek R, Grunstad J, Grossman R, Laramie JM, Lincoln SE, McCarthy MI, Boehnke M, Duggirala R, Abecasis GR, Blangero J, T2D-GENES Consortium. Whole genome sequencing to discover type 2 diabetes risk genes in Mexican American pedigrees: T2D-GENES consortium project 2; 2012 Jun. (Diabetes; vol. 61, no. S1). Quillen EE, Duggirala R, Curran JE, Carless MC, Dyer TD, Goring HHH, Almasy L, Lehman DM, Blangero J. Neurological and signaling pathways are associated with variation in skin color: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012 Jan. (Am J Phys Anthropol; vol. 147, no. S54).

  Journal Article

  Flannick J, Mercader JM, Fuchsberger C, Udler MS, Mahajan A, Wessel J, Teslovich TM, Caulkins L, Koesterer R, Barajas-Olmos F, Blackwell TW, Boerwinkle E, Brody JA, Centeno-Cruz F, Chen L, Chen S, Contreras-Cubas C, Cordova E, Correa A, Cortes M, DeFronzo RA, Dolan L, Drews KL, Elliott A, Floyd JS, Gabriel S, Garay-Sevilla ME, Garcia-Ortiz H, Gross M, Han S, Heard-Costa NL, Jackson AU, J?rgensen ME, Kang HM, Kelsey M, Kim BJ, Koistinen HA, Kuusisto J, Leader JB, Linneberg A, Liu CT, Liu J, Lyssenko V, Manning AK, Marcketta A, Malacara-Hernandez JM, Martinez-Hernandez A, Matsuo K, Mayer-Davis E, Mendoza-Caamal E, Mohlke KL, Morrison AC, Ndungu A, Ng MCY, O'Dushlaine C, Payne AJ, Pihoker C; Broad Genomics Platform, Post WS, Preuss M, Psaty BM, Vasan RS, Rayner NW, Reiner AP, Revilla-Monsalve C, Robertson NR, Santoro N, Schurmann C, So WY, Soberon X, Stringham HM, Strom TM, Tam CHT, Thameem F, Tomlinson B, Torres JM, Tracy RP, van Dam RM, Vujkovic M, Wang S, Welch RP, Witte DR, Wong TY, Atzmon G, Barzilai N, Blangero J, Bonnycastle LL, Bowden DW, Chambers JC, Chan E, Cheng CY, Cho YS, Collins FS, de Vries PS, Duggirala R, Glaser B, Gonzalez C, Gonzalez ME, Groop L, Kooner JS, Kwak SH, Laakso M, Lehman DM, Nilsson P, Spector TD, Tai ES, Tuomi T, Tuomilehto J, Wilson JG, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Bottinger E, Burke B, Carey DJ, Chan JCN, Dupuis J, Frossard P, Heckbert SR, Hwang MY, Kim YJ, Kirchner HL, Lee JY, Lee J, Loos RJF, Ma RCW, Morris AD, O'Donnell CJ, Palmer CNA, Pankow J, Park KS, Rasheed A, Saleheen D, Sim X, Small KS, Teo YY, Haiman C, Hanis CL, Henderson BE, Orozco L, Tusie-Luna T, Dewey FE, Baras A, Gieger C, Meitinger T, Strauch K, Lange L, Grarup N, Hansen T, Pedersen O, Zeitler P, Dabelea D, Abecasis G, Bell GI, Cox NJ, Seielstad M, Sladek R, Meigs JB, Rich SS, Rotter JI; DiscovEHR Collaboration; CHARGE; LuCamp; ProDiGY; GoT2D; ESP; SIGMA-T2D; T2D-GENES; AMP-T2D-GENES, Altshuler D, Burtt NP, Scott LJ, Morris AP, Florez JC, McCarthy MI, Boehnke M. Exome sequencing of 20,791 cases of type 2 diabetes and 24,440 controls Nature 2019 May;epub. Ramstetter MD, Dyer TD, Lehman DM, Curran JE, Duggirala R, Blangero J, Mezey J, Williams AL. Inferring identical by descent sharing of sample ancestors promotes high resolution relative detection Am J Hum Genet 2018 Jul;103(1):30-44. Arya R, Farook VS, Fowler SP, Puppala S, Chittoor G, Resendez RG, Mummidi S, Vanamala J, Almasy L, Curran JE, Comuzzie AG, Lehman DM, Jenkinson CP, Lynch JL, DeFronzo RA, Blangero J, Hale DE, Duggirala R, Diego VP. Genetic and environmental (physical fitness and sedentary activity) interaction effects on cardiometabolic risk factors in Mexican American children and adolescents Genet Epidemiol 2018 Jun;42(4):378-393. Jun G, Manning A, Almeida M, Zawistowski M, Wood AR, Teslovich TM, Fuchsberger C, Feng S, Cingolani P, Gaulton KJ, Dyer T, Blackwell TW, Chen H, Chines PS, Choi S, Churchhouse C, Fontanillas P, King R, Lee S, Lincoln SE, Trubetskoy V, DePristo M, Fingerlin T, Grossman R, Grundstad J, Heath A, Kim J, Kim YJ, Laramie J, Lee J, Li H, Liu X, Livne O, Locke AE, Maller J, Mazur A, Morris AP, Pollin TI, Ragona D, Reich D, Rivas MA, Scott LJ, Sim X, Tearle RG, Teo YY, Williams AL, Zollner S, Curran JE, Peralta J, Akolkar B, Bell GI, Burtt NP, Cox NJ, Florez JC, Hanis CL, McKeon C, Mohlke KL, Seielstad M, Wilson JG, Atzmon G, Below JE, Dupuis J, Nicolae DL, Lehman D, Park T, Won S, Sladek R, Altshuler D, McCarthy MI, Duggirala R, Boehnke M, Frayling TM, Abecasis GR, Blangero J. Evaluating the contribution of rare variants to type 2 diabetes and related traits using pedigrees Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018 Jan;115(2):379-384. Flannick J, Fuchsberger C, Mahajan A, Teslovich TM, Agarwala V, Gaulton KJ, Caulkins L, Koesterer R, Ma C, Moutsianas L, McCarthy DJ, Rivas MA, Perry JRB, Sim X, Blackwell TW, Robertson NR, Rayner NW, Cingolani P, Locke AE, Tajes JF, Highland HM, Dupuis J, Chines PS, Lindgren CM, Hartl C, Jackson AU, Chen H, Huyghe JR, van de Bunt M, Pearson RD, Kumar A, Muller-Nurasyid M, Grarup N, Stringham HM, Gamazon ER, Lee J, Chen Y, Scott RA, Below JE, Chen P, Huang J, Go MJ, Stitzel ML, Pasko D, Parker SCJ, Varga TV, Green T, Beer NL, Day-Williams AG, Ferreira T, Fingerlin T, Horikoshi M, Hu C, Huh I, Ikram MK, Kim BJ, Kim Y, Kim YJ, Kwon MS, Lee J, Lee S, Lin KH, Maxwell TJ, Nagai Y, Wang X, Welch RP, Yoon J, Zhang W, Barzilai N, Voight BF, Han BG, Jenkinson CP, Kuulasmaa T, Kuusisto J, Manning A, Ng MCY, Palmer ND, Balkau B, Stančakova A, Abboud HE, Boeing H, Giedraitis V, Prabhakaran D, Gottesman O, Scott J, Carey J, Kwan P, Grant G, Smith JD, Neale BM, Purcell S, Butterworth AS, Howson JMM, Lee HM, Lu Y, Kwak SH, Zhao W, Danesh J, Lam VKL, Park KS, Saleheen D, So WY, Tam CHT, Afzal U, Aguilar D, Arya R, Aung T, Chan E, Navarro C, Cheng CY, Palli D, Correa A, Curran JE, Rybin D, Farook VS, Fowler SP, Freedman BI, Griswold M, Hale DE, Hicks PJ, Khor CC, Kumar S, Lehne B, Thuillier D, Lim WY, Liu J, Loh M, Musani SK, Puppala S, Scott WR, Yengo L, Tan ST, Taylor HA, Thameem F, Wilson G, Wong TY, Nj?lstad PR, Levy JC, Mangino M, Bonnycastle LL, Schwarzmayr T, Fadista J, Surdulescu GL, Herder C, Groves CJ, Wieland T, Bork-Jensen J, Brandslund I, Christensen C, Koistinen HA, Doney ASF, Kinnunen L, Esko T, Farmer AJ, Hakaste L, Hodgkiss D, Kravic J, Lyssenko V, Hollensted M, J?rgensen ME, J?rgensen T, Ladenvall C, Justesen JM, Karajamaki A, Kriebel J, Rathmann W, Lannfelt L, Lauritzen T, Narisu N, Linneberg A, Melander O, Milani L, Neville M, Orho-Melander M, Qi L, Qi Q, Roden M, Rolandsson O, Swift A, Rosengren AH, Stirrups K, Wood AR, Mihailov E, Blancher C, Carneiro MO, Maguire J, Poplin R, Shakir K, Fennell T, DePristo M, de Angelis MH, Deloukas P, Gjesing AP, Jun G, Nilsson P, Murphy J, Onofrio R, Thorand B, Hansen T, Meisinger C, Hu FB, Isomaa B, Karpe F, Liang L, Peters A, Huth C, O`Rahilly SP, Palmer CNA, Pedersen O, Rauramaa R, Tuomilehto J, Salomaa V, Watanabe RM, Syvanen AC, Bergman RN, Bharadwaj D, Bottinger EP, Cho YS, Chandak GR, Chan JC, Chia KS, Daly MJ, Ebrahim SB, Langenberg C, Elliott P, Jablonski KA, Lehman DM, Jia W, Ma RCW, Pollin TI, Sandhu M, Tandon N, Froguel P, Barroso I, Teo YY, Zeggini E, Loos RJF, Small KS, Ried JS, DeFronzo RA, Grallert H, Glaser B, Metspalu A, Wareham NJ, Walker M, Banks E, Gieger C, Ingelsson E, Im HK, Illig T, Franks PW, Buck G, Trakalo J, Buck D, Prokopenko I, Magi R, Lind L, Farjoun Y, Owen KR, Gloyn AL, Strauch K, Tuomi T, Kooner JS, Lee JY, Park T, Donnelly P, Morris AD, Hattersley AT, Bowden DW, Collins FS, Atzmon G, Chambers JC, Spector TD, Laakso M, Strom TM, Bell GI, Blangero J, Duggirala R, Tai E. Sequence data and association statistics from 12,940 type 2 diabetes cases and controls Sci Data 2017 Dec;4. Mercader JM, Liao RG, Bell AD, Dymek Z, Estrada K, Tukiainen T, Huerta-Chagoya A, Moreno-Macias H, Jablonski KA, Hanson RL, Walford GA, Moran I, Chen L, Agarwala V, Ordo?ez-Sanchez ML, Rodriguez-Guillen R, Rodriguez-Torres M, Segura-Kato Y, Garcia-Ortiz H, Centeno-Cruz F, Barajas-Olmos F, Caulkins L, Puppala S, Fontanillas P, Williams AL, Bonas-Guarch S, Hartl C, Ripke S; Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group, Tooley K, Lane J, Zerrweck C, Martinez-Hernandez A, Cordova EJ, Mendoza-Caamal E, Contreras-Cubas C, Gonzalez-Villalpando ME, Cruz-Bautista I, Mu?oz-Hernandez L, Gomez-Velasco D, Alvirde U, Henderson BE, Wilkens LR, Le Marchand L, Arellano-Campos O, Riba L, Harden M; Broad Genomics Platform, Gabriel S; T2D-GENES Consortium, Abboud HE, Cortes ML, Revilla-Monsalve C, Islas-Andrade S, Soberon X, Curran JE, Jenkinson CP, DeFronzo RA, Lehman DM, Hanis CL, Bell GI, Boehnke M, Blangero J, Duggirala R, Saxena R, MacArthur D, Ferrer J, McCarroll SA, Torrents D, Knowler WC, Baier LJ, Burtt N, Gonzalez-Villalpando C, Haiman CA, Aguilar-Salinas CA, Tusie-Luna T, Flannick J, Jacobs SBR, Orozco L, Altshuler D, Florez JC; SIGMA T2D Genetics Consortium. A Loss-of-Function Splice Acceptor Variant in IGF2 Is Protective for Type 2 Diabetes Diabetes 2017 Nov;66(11):2903-2914. Ramstetter MD, Dyer TD, Lehman DM, Curran JE, Duggirala R, Blangero J, Mezey JG, Williams AL. Benchmarking Relatedness Inference Methods with Genome-Wide Data from Thousands of Relatives Genetics 2017 Sep;207(1):75-82. 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A Low-Frequency Inactivating AKT2 Variant Enriched in the Finnish Population Is Associated With Fasting Insulin Levels and Type 2 Diabetes Risk Diabetes 2017 Jul;66(7):2019-2032. Farook VS, Reddivari L, Mummidi S, Puppala S, Arya R, Lopez-Alvarenga JC, Fowler SP, Chittoor G, Resendez RG, Kumar BM, Comuzzie AG, Curran JE, Lehman DM, Jenkinson CP, Lynch JL, DeFronzo RA, Blangero J, Hale DE, Duggirala R, Vanamala JK
  . Genetics of serum carotenoid concentrations and their correlation with obesity-related traits in Mexican American children Am J Clin Nutr 2017 Jul;106(1):52-58. Yao L, Liu Y, Qiu Z, Kumar S, Curran JE, Blangero J, Chen Y, Lehman DM. Molecular profiling of human iPS-derived hypothalamic neurons provides developmental insights to genetic loci for body weight regulation J. Neuroendocrinol 2017 Feb;29(2). Wang CP, Lehman DM, Lam YF, Kuhn JG, Mahalingam D, Weitman S, Lorenzo C, Downs JR, Stuart EA, Hernandez J, Thompson IM, Ramirez AG. Metformin for Reducing Racial/Ethnic Difference in Prostate Cancer Incidence for Men with Type II Diabetes Cancer Prev Res 2016 Oct;9(10):779-787. Blangero J, Teslovich TM, Sim X, Almeida MA, Jun G, Dyer TD, Johnson M, Peralta JM, Manning A, Wood AR, Fuchsberger C, Kent JW Jr, Aguilar DA, Below JE, Farook VS, Arya R, Fowler S, Blackwell TW, Puppala S, Kumar S, Glahn DC, Moses EK, Curran JE, Thameem F, Jenkinson CP, DeFronzo RA, Lehman DM, Hanis C, Abecasis G, Boehnke M, Goring H, Duggirala R, Almasy L; T2D-GENES Consortium. Omics-squared: human genomic, transcriptomic and phenotypic data for genetic analysis workshop 19 BMC Proc 2016 Oct;10:71-77. 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