Paul R. Langlais, PhD

I was born French Canadian, in Montreal to be exact, in 1975. My family moved to San Antonio in 1978, so I grew up in the good old Texas public school system while spending my summers as a kid back in Quebec (which I still do when I can). I graduated from Texas Tech University in 1997 and realized that I liked cell biology, so I got lucky and ended up as a research assistant in an insulin signaling lab that fall, all of which led me to a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

I met my boss, Larry Mandarino, PhD, when he interviewed me for grad school and we both left UTHSCSA for Arizona State University in 2005 — him as the chair of kinesiology (a department that later went bye-bye) and me as a postdoctoral fellow. Spent too long there before taking an assistant professor position at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale in 2012. I realized pretty quickly that Mayo held no future for me, so we all ended up at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson in fall 2016, which turned out to be where we should have started in Arizona in the first place. I love the U of A. It's so good to be back at a health science center and an institution that has a passion for basic biomedical research.