Ralph DeBerardinis, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor and Director of the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and Director of the Genetic and Metabolic Disease Program in UT Southwestern’s Children’s Research Institute. Dr. DeBerardinis received M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and clinical training at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Pediatrics and Medical Genetics. Dr. DeBerardinis’ lab studies altered metabolic pathways in cancer and inborn errors of metabolism. The DeBerardinis lab pioneered the use of metabolomics and isotope tracing to characterize disease-associated metabolic states directly in patients, and to use model systems to explore how metabolic perturbations contribute to tissue dysfunction.