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Dr. William Vine is the author and webmaster for antiobesityrearch.com . As implied his research interests focus on metabolic diseases, especially obesity. He has extensive industrial and academic research experience and is currently consultant to biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Previously, he was a Senior Scientist and Associate Director at Arena Pharmaceuticals and Amylin Pharmaceuticals, respectively. He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications and is a named inventor or co-inventor on issued patents. He received his M.D.,Ph.D. from Washington University where his breakthrough research discovered the first antagonist of any peptide hormone. He was a fellow at the California Institute of Technology and a Clinical Scholar at Rockefeller University where he helped discover TNF. He also completed an internship in pediatrics at Cardinal Glennon Hospital of St. Louis and a residency in Laboratory Medicine at Yale, New Haven Hospital, where he was Chief Resident. Subsequently, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Minnesota and Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Director of the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Cincinnati.