The UAB Comprehensive Diabetes Center (UCDC) is pleased to welcome Hui-Ying Lim, Ph.D., who will serve as an associate professor in the Department of Genetics.

Lim’s recruitment was made possible through the Strategic Faculty Recruitment Initiative in Diabetes Research, a partnership between the UCDC and the UAB Heersink School of Medicine and contributions from the Department of Genetics, the Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center, and the Precision Medicine Institute.

Approved by leadership at UAB, the strategic recruitment initiative for the center began in spring 2022. Director Anath Shalev, M.D., says that it is an exciting time for the UCDC as it partners with different departments, institutes and the Heersink School of Medicine and embarks on this new phase of growth, which most recently brought Ananda and Rita Basu, M.D.s, as well as Fernando Bril, M.D., to UAB.

Lim joins the UCDC from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Department of Physiology, where she was an associate professor. Her robust lab research was focused on Drosophila genetics and the endocrine role of the heart on systemic energy metabolism regulation and cardiac intercellular signaling on heart physiology.  

Lim received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in La Jolla, CA.

Lim is a member of the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association and is also a member of the Genetics Society of America. She is an editor for the scientific journals Reactive Oxygen Species and Frontiers in Physiology.

Shalev is glad to welcome Lim to UAB and the UCDC.

“We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Lim to UAB,” said Shalev. “Her successful track record as a Drosophila geneticist brings yet another model organism to UAB and opens up exciting possibilities of collaboration across genetics, cardiovascular research, precision medicine, and diabetes research.”