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Amira Klip
Amira Klip, Professor of Physiology, Biochemistry and Paediatrics at the
University of Toronto, and Senior Scientist at The Hospital for Sick
Children, assumed the editorship of American Journal of Physiology -
Endocrinology and Metabolism in January 2007. Klip received her PhD in
Biochemistry in 1976 from the Center for Advanced Studies in Mexico City,
and performed postdoctoral studies first at the Banting and Best Department
of Medical Research of the University of Toronto (supervisor: David
MacLennan) and then at the ETH-Z in Zurich (supervisor: Georgio Semenza).
The former provided her with expertise in muscle biochemistry and
physiology, the latter with biochemical insight into glucose transport
mechanisms. She recounts how giving a journal club presentation on a key
article–the first one describing the translocation of glucose transporters
in adipose cells–defined her future career path.
Klip’s scientific interests span the biochemistry and physiology of
insulin action, the regulation of nutrient uptake in skeletal muscle during
exercise and in states of disease, and the regulation and dysfunction of Na+,
K+, and Ca 2+ fluxes and signals. Above all, Klip has
a passion to train young scientists and contribute to their career
development. These interests find a home in her duties as Associate Chief of
Research (portfolio: research training) at The Hospital for Sick Children in
Toronto, where she has been carrying out her research since 1981. Klip has
trained 30 graduate students and 28 postdoctoral fellows from all around the
world.
Dr. Klip currently holds the Canada Research Chair in
Cell Biology of Insulin Action and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada. She has been a Scholar, Scientist, and Distinguished Scientist of
the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and has received the Young
Scientist Award of the Canadian Diabetes Association, the Jean Manery Fisher
award from the Canadian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular
Biology, the Dales Award for Medical Research of the University of Toronto,
the Malcolm Brown Award of the Canadian Federation of Biological Sciences,
and the Berson Award of the American Physiological Society. She currently
serves on the advisory panel of the PEW Foundation and on the Executive
Committee of the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre of the University of
Toronto. She has been a member and chair of the scientific committee of the
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and has served on several editorial
boards, including those of Diabetes, American Journal of Physiology -
Endocrinology and Metabolism, American Journal of Physiology -
Cell Physiology, Endocrinology, and currently Physiology (an APS
journal).
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