Ferid Murad is an American physician and pharmacologist,and a co-winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He is married to Carol A. Murad with whom he has five children and nine grandchildren.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is a public academic health science center in Dallas,Texas. With approximately 13,568 employees and 2,445 faculty and over 2.7 million outpatient visits per year,UT Southwestern is the largest medical school in the University of Texas System and state of Texas.
The Tulane University School of Medicine is located in New Orleans,Louisiana,United States and is a part of Tulane University. The school is located in the Medical District of the New Orleans Central Business District.
The University of California San Diego School of Medicine is the graduate medical school of the University of California,San Diego. It was the third medical school in the University of California system,after those established at UCSF and UCLA,and is the only medical school in the San Diego metropolitan area. It is closely affiliated with the medical centers that are part of UC San Diego Health.
The Libin Cardiovascular Institute is a partnership between Alberta Health Services and the University of Calgary. Its mandate comprises all cardiovascular research,education and service delivery,with a service area extending from Saskatchewan,Southern Alberta and Eastern British Columbia. The Institute coordinates the activities of over 1,500 individuals in Southern Alberta. Of its more than 175 research and clinician members,over 75 are cardiologists,making it the largest heart or cardiovascular institute in Western Canada by that measure.
The American Physiological Society is a non-profit professional society for physiologists. It has nearly 10,000 members,most of whom hold doctoral degrees in medicine,physiology or other health professions. Its mission is to support research and education in the physiological sciences. The society publishes 16 peer reviewed journals,sponsors scientific conferences,and sponsors awards to further this mission.
Diane L. Barber,from Marin County,California,is an American cell physiologist and cell biologist. She is professor and chair of the Department of Cell and Tissue Biology at University of California,San Francisco School of Dentistry. In 2012 she became elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as recognition for her "distinguished contributions on cell signaling by plasma membrane ion transport proteins and on the design and function of proteins regulated by intracellular pH dynamics."
Robert M. Nerem,often referred to as Bob Nerem,a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine,held the Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he was an Emeritus Professor until his death.
Juleen R. Zierath is an American-Swedish biologist. Her research focuses on the cellular mechanisms that correspond to the development of insulin resistance in Type II diabetes. Her other research areas look at exercise-mediated effects on skeletal muscle glucose metabolism and gene expression.
Jason X.-J. Yuan is an American physician scientist whose research interests center on pulmonary vascular pathobiology and pulmonary hypertension. His current research is primarily focused on the pathogenic mechanisms of pulmonary vascular diseases and right heart failure.
Matthew Nathan Levy was an American physiologist best known for his research on cardiac physiology and co-writing several textbooks with Robert M. Berne. Levy carried out pioneering research on the relationship between the heart and the autonomic nervous system and was sometimes referred to as "the father of neurocardiology".
Professor Julie Hazel Campbell AO FAA is an Australian vascular biologist from Sydney,Australia. Campbell is a professorial fellow at the Australian Academy of Sciences and is a world leader in the field of smooth muscle biology and along with her husband holds two patents for vascular implant material.
Rhian M. Touyz MBBCh,MSc (Med),PhD,FRCP,FRSE,FMedSci,FCAHS is a Canadian medical researcher. She is currently serving as the Executive Director and Chief Scientific Officer of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal,Canada,since 2021. A clinician scientist,her research primarily focuses on hypertension and cardiovascular disease.
Leslie Leinwand is an American biologist and serial entrepreneur who works on the genetics and molecular physiology of inherited diseases of the heart,and on how gender and diet modify the heart. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of Molecular,Cellular,and Developmental Biology,and the Chief Scientific Officer of the BioFrontiers Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Fiona Jean McDonald is a New Zealand physiologist,professor and head of the McDonald Lab and the Department of Physiology at the University of Otago.
Alon Harris,MS,PhD,FARVO is an internationally-active clinical scientist,professor of ophthalmology,educator,inventor and researcher in the field of ocular blood flow and its relationship to diseases of the eye. Harris served as the principal or co-principal investigator on more than 60 research grants,published more than 368 peer-reviewed articles,and wrote 22 books and 69 book chapters. As of 2021,he holds two patents. Harris sits on the Board of Directors of The Glaucoma Foundation and is the Vice Chair of International Research and Academic Affairs and Director of the Ophthalmic Vascular Diagnostic and Research Program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Jeffry B. Lansman is an American neuroscientist,Professor Emeritus of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology in the School of Medicine at the University of California,San Francisco and a member of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience,Weill Institute of Neuroscience,and Cardiovascular Research Institute.
Andre Francis Palmer, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean for research in the College of Engineering and the Fenburr Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio State University. He is an expert on hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers and biomaterials used in transfusion medicine.
Alyssa Panitch is an American biomedical engineer. She is the Edward Teller Professor in the Biomedical Engineering department and Executive Associate Dean in the College of Engineering at the University of California,Davis. Panitch focuses on designing biopolymers that improve tissue healing and regeneration by researching intracellular and extracellular approaches to direct molecular and cellular processes.
Roberta Anne Gottlieb is an American oncologist,academic,and researcher. She is a Professor,and Vice-Chair of Translational Medicine in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,and a Professor of Medicine at the University of California,Los Angeles.
