Eleftheria Maratos-Flier

Eleftheria Maratos-Flier is an American endocrinologist, and emerita Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, best known for her expertise in the pathophysiology and prevention of obesity-related metabolic disorders, and for her discoveries on the neuroendocrine control of feeding behaviour. She is a contributing author to known textbooks and reviews in internal medicine, endocrinology, and physiology. Her marriage with professor Jeffrey Flier, was noted by Forbes as a lasting and productive bond between eminent medical scholars. They have two adult daughters who are also physicians. She is also known as Terry Maratos-Flier.

Education In 1972, she graduated with a BA in Chemistry from New York University, New York, NY. In 1976, she graduated as an MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, In Massachusetts (1978-1981), she pursued further residency training in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, postdoctoral research fellowship at Harvard School of Public Health, and Clinical Fellowship at the Joslin Diabetes Center and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has been an associate member of the Broad Institute, and a Principal Investigator of many NIH-funded research grants. She has also been an attending endocrinologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where she still provides care for patients with metabolic disease. From 2018, she has been Director, Translational Medicine, at Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA., recently moving to Alnylam to serve as a director of clinical research. She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, 2020 - Roy O. Greep Award for Outstanding Research given by the Endocrine Society.

Selected works Maratos-Flier's research papers have been cited over 15,600 times. Her most cited papers are:

Qu, Daqing; Ludwig, David S.; Gammeltoft, Steen; Piper, Megan; Pelleymounter, Mary Ann; Cullen, Mary Jane; Mathes, Wendy Foulds; Przypek, Jeanne; Kanarek, Robin; Maratos-Flier, Eleftheria (1996-03-01). "A role for melanin-concentrating hormone in the central regulation of feeding behaviour". Nature. 380 (6571): 243–247. doi:10.1038/380243a0.PMID 8637571. Fisher, ffolliott M.; Kleiner, Sandra; Douris, Nicholas; Fox, Elliott C.; Mepani, Rina J.; Verdeguer, Francisco; Wu, Jun; Kharitonenkov, Alexei; Flier, Jeffrey S.; Maratos-Flier, Eleftheria; Spiegelman, Bruce M. (2012-02-01). "FGF21 regulates PGC-1α and browning of white adipose tissues in adaptive thermogenesis". Genes & Development. 26 (3): 271–281. doi:10.1101/gad.177857.111. PMID 22302939