Alan R. Saltiel Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

Saltiel has received many awards over the course of his career, including the Rosalyn Yalow Research and Development Award from the American Diabetes Association, Hirschl Award, The John Jacob Abel Award from ASPET and The Goodman and Gilman and Pharmacia Awards, also from ASPET. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His work is often cited in biochemistry literature; with more than 35,000 citations as of February 2014, he ranks among the most influential scientists in biology and biochemistry in the world.

Saltiel was the Mary Sue Coleman Director of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan; a professor at the Division of Molecular Medicine and Genetics at the University of Michigan Medical School; a faculty member at the Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center; and John Jacob Abel Professor of Life Sciences, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology; a member of the Steering Committee Member at the Center for Advancing Research & Solutions for Society. He served as the Director of the Life Sciences Institute from 2001 to 2015. He was also a John Jacob Abel Collegiate Professor of the Life Sciences at the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the UM Medical School.

Saltiel was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. He holds an AB from Duke University (1975) in zoology and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina (1980) in biochemistry.

Alan Robert Saltiel (born November 29, 1953) is an American endocrinologist and biochemist. He is the director of the Institute for Diabetes and Metabolic Health at the University of California, San Diego.