New Life for Life Sciences

Photo: D.C. Goings

U-M President Mary Sue Coleman has appointed Alan R. Saltiel, Ph.D., the John Jacob Abel Collegiate Professor of the Life Sciences and professor of internal medicine and physiology in the Medical School, as the new director of the University’s Life Sciences Institute, filling the vacancy left by the resignation of Jack E. Dixon, Ph.D. Saltiel is a leader in the field of signal transduction, the study of how hormones, particularly insulin, send messages within cells.

Coleman also appointed six charter faculty to help define the scientific focus of the Institute and guide the critical faculty recruiting efforts to come. All six members have Medical School ties: David Ginsburg, M.D., Warner-Lambert /Parke-Davis Professor of Genetics and Internal Medicine; Daniel J. Klionsky, Ph.D., professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology and biological chemistry; John B. Lowe, M.D., Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor of Pathology; Rowena G. Matthews Ph.D., G. Robert Greenberg Professor of Biological Chemistry; Carol A. Fierke, Ph.D., professor of biological chemistry; and Gary D. Glick, Ph.D., professor of biological chemistry. Fierke, Glick, Klionsky and Matthews also hold appointments in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.