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Alexander Banks, PhD

Associate Professor
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER
Boston, MA, United States

Alexander S. Banks, PhD is an Associate Professor at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School, where he directs the Metabolic Research Laboratory in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism. He also co directs BIDMC’s Systemic Effects of Metabolic Disease Hub and serves as Director of the Energy Balance Core, a specialized facility that enables precise measurement of food intake, activity, energy expenditure, and body weight regulation in animal models.
Dr. Banks’ group developed CalR, widely used open source software for analyzing indirect calorimetry and energy balance experiments. He recently led an international consortium of 79 investigators to publish a landmark Nature Metabolism consensus paper establishing global standards for measuring and analyzing metabolism in animal models—an advance that strengthens rigor and reproducibility across the field. He also serves as Associate Director of the Boston Area Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center (BADERC).
Dr. Banks received his PhD from Columbia University and completed postdoctoral training at Columbia and at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School.
His laboratory investigates the mechanistic links between obesity and insulin resistance, with a focus on hormonal and substrate crosstalk between adipose tissue and the liver. His team discovered that adipose targeted insulin sensitizers can markedly reduce hepatic steatosis independent of weight loss, helping to identify endogenous secreted factors that regulate whole body metabolism and may represent new therapeutic targets.

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