Department of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine research program gets another grant  Francois M. Abboud, M.D. Edith King Pearson Chair in Cardiovascular Research Professor of Medicine and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics Director, Cardiovascular Research Center Associate Vice President for Research Former Head, Department of Internal Medicine (1976-2002)
2/7/2009 A long-standing University of Iowa research program that has helped reduce death from heart disease has received its eighth consecutive five-year grant renewal from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. The nearly $10.4 million grant will help support ongoing studies to understand how and why errors in the brain and nervous system cause heart and circulatory problems, including heart attacks, high blood pressure, heart failure, stroke and obesity. Established in 1971, the program has received nearly $80 million in NIH support to date. The current renewal makes the Integrative Neurobiology of Cardiovascular Regulation program one of the longest continuously funded research programs by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute under the direction of the same principal investigator, in this case, UI faculty member Dr. Francois Abboud. The project has involved dozens of investigators over the years. Other UI faculty members who were instrumental in this most recent grant renewal include, as project leaders and core directors, Yang Baoli, Chris Benson, Mark Chapleau, Beverly Davidson, William Haynes and Alan Johnson. In addition, current co-investigators in the program's four major projects include UI faculty members Mark Anderson, Allyn Mark, Margaret Price, Kamal Rahmouni, Harold Stauss, Robert Weiss and Michael Welsh. |
