Rakesh Parikh

At a university medical school, Rakesh Parikh is a professor of physiology who teaches the endocrine systems block to second-year medical students. In his basic-science laboratory, he directs experimental work on intracellular hormone signaling mechanisms, investigating how receptor pathways transmit insulin signals within target metabolic tissues and modulate cellular metabolism. Parikh studied physiology through undergraduate and doctoral degree programs, having also led an academic laboratory investigating cellular hormone dynamics. In addition to his faculty duties and ongoing bench research, he contributes to Biology Insights.