Focus Areas – Vascular Biology and Hypertension
| Paul Aisen (website) Vice Chair and Professor |
Mechanisms underlying the increased incidence of Alzheimer’s disease in women and in drug development for treating Alzheimer’s disease |
| Steven Ebert, PhD (website) Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology |
Sex steroid hormones and drug-induced arrhythmias |
| Carolyn Ecelbarger, PhD Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine |
Regulation of renal sodium, water transport proteins and blood pressure by insulin during Type I and Type II diabetes. |
| Richard Gillis (website) Professor of Pharmacology |
Determine the location of glucose-sensing areas in the brain in order to use this knowledge to treat problems associated with diabetes |
| Barbara Howard, PhD Senior Scientist and former President of MedStar Research Institute |
Risk factors for CVD, with special interest in diabetes, lipids, and the effects of diabetes on CVD in women |
| Hong Ji, MD Research Associate Professor, Department of Physiology |
Gonadal steroid regulation of angiotensin receptors |
| Bjoern Knollman, PhD Assistant Professor, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Departments of Pharmacology and Medicine |
Molecules involved in cardiac arrhythmias |
| Bob Lechleider, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology |
TGF-beta regulation of vascular development |
| Christine Maric, PhD, FAHA Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine |
Sex differences in diabetic renal disease |
| Susan Mulroney, PhD Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Physiology |
Sex differences in cardio-renal pathology |
| Adam Myers, PhD Professor, Departments of Physiology and Biophysics |
Sex Differences in regulation of hemostasis and vascular function in normal function and disease |
| Kathryn Sandberg, PhD (website) Professor, Departments of Medicine and Physiology, Director of the CSD |
Sex differences in hypertension and associated cardiovascular and renal disease |
| Jason Umans, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine |
Mechanisms of vascular dysfunction in hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and in menopause |
| Zofia Zukowska, MD, PhD (website) Professor and Chair, Departments of Physiology and Biophysics |
The effects of sex differences on the role of Neuropeptide Y in vascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, stress-related disorders and tumors |