Next Week's DSS - Dr. Lawrence Mandarino

Dr. Mandarino

The next Distinguished Scientist Seminar at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine will be presented by Dr. Lawrence Mandarino, founding director of the Center for Metabolic Biology and professor of the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University.

His lecture, titled “Protemics in the Study of Insulin Resistance,” will take place April 14, 2011, at 4 p.m. in the Medical Sciences Building auditorium.

Dr. Mandarino also serves as professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic Arizona and director of the Mayo/ASU Center for Metabolic and Vascular Biology at Mayo Clinic Arizona and Arizona State University. He holds a cross appointment as professor in the basic medical sciences department at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix in partnership with Arizona State University.

Dr. Mandarino received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Arizona State University in 1978 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

He became the founding director of the Center for Metabolic Biology in 2005. The center’s research focuses on the mechanisms responsible for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Mandarino's research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health for over 20 years, has over 115 publications in peer-reviewed journals and was awarded the 2009 American Diabetes Association Cure Award.

For more information on Dr. Mandarino's research, visit http://sols.asu.edu/people/faculty/lmandarino.php.

For additional information on the lecture series, contact Natalie Kent at (251) 461-1548.