Alan R. Saltiel was the Mary Sue Coleman Director of the Life Sciences Institute at the University of Michigan; a professor at the Division of 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. He holds an AB from Duke University (1975) and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina (1980).