Description
Dr. Patrick MacDonald is Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Alberta, where he has studied pancreatic endocrine function since 2006 and holds a Canada Research Chair in Islet Biology. His laboratory, located within the Alberta Diabetes Institute, works to understand the cellular machinery that controls production of the important blood sugar controlling hormones insulin and glucagon by islet cells from human organ donors. Dr. MacDonald directs the Alberta Diabetes Institute IsletCore, one of the world’s largest sources of human pancreas research tissue, and co-founded the Canadian Islet Research and Training Network
