Dr Vincent Poitout received his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from the École Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort and his PhD degree from the Université Paris 6. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota. He was an INSERM scientist at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris, France and then Principal Scientist at the Pacific Northwest Research Institute and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, before joining the University of Montreal in 2005. Dr Poitout is currently Professor of Medicine at the University of Montréal and Director of Research at the Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM). Dr Poitout is the former Chair of the National Research Council of Diabetes Canada and of the American Diabetes Association’s Grant Review Panel, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association. He has served on the Editorial Boards of Diabetes, The Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Diabetologia.

Dr Poitout’s research is funded by the US National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and Diabetes Canada.

Dr Poitout received several awards including the Albert Renold Fellowship from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, the 2003 Thomas R. Lee Career Development Award from the American Diabetes Association, and the 2009 Young Scientist Award from the Canadian Diabetes Association. He held the Canada Research Chair in Diabetes and Pancreatic Beta-cell Function from 2006 to 2020. Dr Poitout is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.