Department of Medicine

University of Pittsburgh

Alfred L. Fisher, MD, PhD
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Assistant Professor
Office: 3471 Fifth Avenue
Kaufmann Medical Building, Suite 500
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
 
Phone: 412-692-2360
Fax: 412-692-2370
E-mail: afisher@pitt.edu
Education
BS, Loyola Marymount University, 1991
MD, Cornell University Medical College, 1998
PhD, Cornell University Medical College, 1999
Training
Research Fellow, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1990
Cell Biology and Genetics Program, Cornell University, 1998
UCSF Molecular Medicine Fellowship, Buck Institute for Age Research, 2004
Area of Specialization/Research Interest  
Cellular and molecular processes in aging
Study of the nematode worm
 
Profile
Dr. Fisher is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and has a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Geriatric Medicine. He divides his time between clinical practice in Geriatric Medicine and conducting basic science research aimed at improving our understanding of the biologic changes that accompany aging. Ultimately, he is interested in how aging interacts with medical illnesses to create the unique clinical syndromes seen in older patients, like falls and delirium. Dr. Fisher is interested in the geriatric syndromes of sarcopenia and frailty. Both of these syndromes are remarkably also observed in C. elegans. He has funded R01 grants to examine the regulation of proteosomal function in cellular stress and aging and to study sarcopenia in C. elegans.
Recent Grants
Title: Regulation of the AIRAP/aip-1 pathway of metabolic stress
Role: PI
Amount:
Funding Agency: NIH
Start Year: 2012
End Year: 2017
Title: Effects of insulin-like signaling, aging, and ubiquinone on C. elegans muscle
Role: PI
Amount:
Funding Agency: NIH
Start Year: 2010
End Year: 2015
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