Dr. Diane received his Master’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics from Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal. He completed his PhD in Human Nutrition at AgroParisTech Institute, Paris (France). After completion of his doctoral degree in 2006, Dr. Diané was awarded a Postdoctoral Research Training Fellowship in Obesity/Healthy Body Weight Program from CIHR with an opportunity to work at the the Lipid Research Centre at Laval University in Quebec, Canada; here he worked on cardiovascular complications of diabetes from 2007-2008.

In November 2008, he joined the Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases Laboratory at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada as a Postdoctoral Researcher/Research Associate & Teaching Assistant for 8 years. He worked on many research projects investigating the impact of nutrition and pharmacotherapies on cardiometabolic risk in animal models of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

In 2014, he briefly joined (9 months) the Northern Medical Program, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada as a Postdoctoral Research Associate investigating the physiological and molecular mechanisms of the Pituitary Adenylate Cylase-Activating Polypeptide (PACAP) involved in adaptive thermogenesis.

In August 2017, he joined Dr. Dehbi’s group as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Diabetes Research Center of QBRI working on many projects related to the role of heat shock proteins, in the pathophysiology of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Diané has extensive experience in pre-clinical animal models of chronic metabolic diseases. He will help in the setup of functional vivarium at QBRI, developing animal models of metabolic diseases.