Dr. Jonathan Little is a former Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) Scholar, and current UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellow whose main research interests focus on: 1) Optimizing diet and exercise interventions for the prevention, treatment, and reversal of type 2 diabetes; and 2) Understanding how lifestyle interventions impact the function of immune cells. He is the recipient of >$3M (CAD) in research grant funding as a principal investigator and has published over 140 peer- reviewed journal articles in the areas of exercise metabolism, nutrition, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and immunology. Ongoing studies in his lab are exploring how exogenous ketones impact glucose control, immune function, and cardiometabalic health.