Dr. Les Satin is the Joanne I. Moore Endowed Research Professor of Pharmacology and also an investigator in the Brehm Diabetes Research Center and the Caswell Diabetes Institute. He is an affiliate professor of MEND, in Internal Medicine. He trained at UCLA, SUNY Stony Brook, and the University of Washington, Seattle, where he was in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics of the UW Medical School and a fellow in Metabolism and Endocrinology at the Seattle Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Satin was trained in the areas of membrane biophysics, neurobiology, electrophysiology and ion channels. He has been on the faculty at UM since 2008. In 2016, Dr. Satin was visiting professor at the University of Uppsala in Uppsala, Sweden with Drs. Anders Tengholm and Sebastian Barg in the Department of Medical Cell Biology.