Ormond A. MacDougald

Ormond MacDougald is the John A. Faulkner Collegiate Professor in Physiology at the University of Michigan. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Guelph, and MS and PhD from Michigan State University. He then completed his postdoctoral training in the Department of Biological Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, where he began his studies on adipocyte biology with M. Daniel Lane. Dr. MacDougald joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1996 and was promoted to Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology and Internal Medicine in 2006. The MacDougald laboratory investigates how adipocytes throughout the body develop, function, and interact with other cell types near and afar. Dr. MacDougald has previously been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, and has received the University of Michigan Medical School’s Achievement in Basic Science Research Award and the Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentoring Award. He has also been awarded the Henry Pickering Bowditch Award and the Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award from the American Physiological Society.