Michael J. Jurczak, PhD, recently joined the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Pittsburgh as an assistant professor and member of the newly formed Center for Metabolism and MitochondrialMedicine(C3M). Dr. Jurczak received his BS in Physiological Science from UCLA and his PhD in Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition from theUniversity of Chicago. He continued his training as a postdoctoral fellow with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Yale University in the laboratory of Dr. Gerald Shulman, where he specialized in performing isotopic infusion studies in transgenic mice to assess glucose homeostasis and insulin action while investigating the pathogenesis of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Prior to arriving at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Jurczak was an Instructor in Medicine atYale University, where he divided his time between his own research program and serving as co-director of the NIH funded In Vivo MetabolismCore of the Yale Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Center (MMPC).