Translational Research: Pathophysiology of Hypertension During Preeclampsia

Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences, Jan, 2008

Noon, Thursday

February 21, 2008

Translational Research: Pathophysiology of Hypertension During Preeclampsia

given by Joey P. Granger, Ph.D.

Dr. Granger is the Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor and Professor of Physiology and Medicine and Associate Director of the Center for Excellence in Cardiovascular-Renal Research and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS. He earned his doctorate from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1983. He received his postdoctoral training in physiology at the Mayo Clinic from 1983-1985. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Physiology at Mayo Medical School in 1985. In 1986, he joined the faculty of the Department of Physiology at Eastern Virginia Medical School. In 1990, he moved back to the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

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Dr. Granger is currently an Associate Editor for Hypertension and for the American Journal of Physiology. He has also served as the Editor of the Council for High Blood Pressure Newsletter and a member of Editorial Boards of American Journal of Hypertension, American Journal of Physiology: Renal, Journal of CardioMetabolic Syndrome and News in Physiological Sciences. He has served on numerous scientific committees of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research Inter-American Society of Hypertension, and the American Physiological Society. Within the past year he has been elected to serve on the Leadership committees of the American Physiological Society and the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the AHA. He has served on scientific study sections for the American Heart Association, National Institutes of Health, NASA, and the Veterans Administration.

He has received several awards including the American Physiological Society 2008E.H. Starling Distinguished Lecture Award, American Physiological Society 2008 Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award, Dahl Memorial Lecture of the AHA, American Society of Hypertension Young Scholar Award, the International Society of Hypertension Demuth Research Award, Inter-American Society of Hypertension Young Investigator Award, the Regulatory and Integrative Physiology Young Investigator Award of the American Physiological Society Water and Electrolyte Section, the Harold Lamport Award of the Cardiovascular Section of the American Physiological Society, the Bowditch Lecture of the American Physiological Society, and the Established Investigator Award of the American Heart Association. Granger's research has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1984.

Dr. Granger's research has focused on the role of the kidneys in the pathogenesis of hypertension. His current research focuses on the role of endothelial and neurohormonal factors in mediating hypertension in animal models of preeclampsia. His laboratory is also investigating the role of the renal endothelin system in salt-sensitive hypertension.