Dr. Spencer Proctor
Full Professor & Director of the Division of Human Nutrition
Associate Chair, Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
Director, Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases Laboratory
Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases Laboratory
Division of Human Nutrition
Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences
4-002J Li Ka Shing (LKS) Centre for Health Research Innovation
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E1
1+(780) 492-4672 (office)
1+(780) 492-9270 (fax)
UofA MCVD Lab website: mcvd.ualberta.ca
Dr. Spencer Proctor trained as a physiologist and cardiovascular scientist in both Australia and Canada. He was appointed to the Alberta Institute for Human Nutrition at the University of Alberta in 2004 and founded the Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases (MCVD) Laboratory. Dr. Proctor’s research program spans a unique continuum of expertise in the areas of nutrition, metabolism, physiology, behaviour, food health and chronic disease.
For more information on Dr. Proctor's research, please visit his Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases Laboratory webpage by clicking here.
Dr. Yosdel Soto Lopez
Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta
Head of the Division of Immunology and Immunotherapies Center of Molecular Immunology, University of Havana, Cuba
Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases Laboratory
Division of Human Nutrition
Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science
Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences
4-002 Li Ka Shing (LKS) Centre for Health Research Innovation, University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E1
1+(780) 492-6358 (lab)
1+(780) 492-9270 (fax)
UofA MCVD Lab Website: mcvd.ualberta.ca
CIM Website: www.cim.cu
sotolope@ualberta.ca & yosdel@cim.sid.cu
Dr. Yosdel Soto Lopez obtained his PhD in Biological Sciences from the University of Havana, Cuba. Since 2016 he has acted as Head of the Project on Atherosclerosis and is currently the Head of the Department of Immunobiology at the Centre for Molecular Immunology in Cuba. In collaboration with Dr. Proctor, he is working on the use of the antibody as a vaccine for the treatment of atherosclerosis in diabetes.
For more information on Dr. Yosdel Soto Lopez's research, please visit his ResearchGate page by clicking here.