Skip to main content
ENDO 2026 Main banner

Steven Kliewer, PhD (he/him/his)

Professor
University of TX Southwestern Medical Ct
Dallas, TX, United States

Steven Kliewer, PhD, is Professor in the Departments of Molecular Biology and holds the Diana K. and Richard C. Strauss Distinguished Chair in Developmental Biology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He earned his BS in biochemistry from Brown University in 1985 and his PhD in molecular biology from UCLA in 1990. From 1990-1993, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute, and from 1993-2002 he was a scientist at GlaxoSmithKline, rising to Director of Nuclear Receptor Research. In 2002, he joined UT Southwestern, where he currently runs a laboratory focused on the roles of nuclear receptors and endocrine FGFs in regulating diverse aspects of physiology and pathophysiology. Ongoing projects include elucidating how the liver-derived hormone FGF21 protects against alcohol-induced toxicity and determining how the nuclear receptor, DAF-12, regulates the infectious lifecycle of parasitic nematodes. Dr. Kliewer has won several awards including ASPET's John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology and the Endocrine Society's Ernst Oppenheimer and Edwin B. Astwood Awards. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Disclosure information not submitted.

Presentation(s):