Alexander Sorisky

Dr. Alexander Sorisky received his medical degree from McGill University and completed the postgraduate program in Medical Biochemistry and Internal Medicine at McGill University and University of Ottawa. He undertook Endocrinology & Metabolism training at the University of Vermont, and continued there as a research fellow supported by MRC (now CIHR), in the Departments of Biochemistry and of Pathology and Molecular Genetics. He returned to Canada, and established his clinical activities and research program in Ottawa.

He is Professor of Medicine and of Biochemistry, Microbiology & Immunology, and a member of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Ottawa. He is Senior Scientist Emeritus in the Inflammation and Chronic Disease Program of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute at The Ottawa Hospital. His awards include a Medical Research Council of Canada Scholar, a Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario Career Investigator, and a Premier's Research Excellence Award of Ontario.

Dr. Sorisky's research interest is cell-surface receptor signal transduction in the context of adipose cell responses, such as differentiation, proliferation, survival, and adipokine production. He aims to understand how disturbances in adipose cell signal transduction networks, regulated by cell-surface tyrosine kinase or G protein-coupled receptors, result in cariometabolic malfunction such as insulin resistance and inflammation.