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Robert W. Brock
Associate Professor
West Virginia University
USA
Biography
Dr. Robert Brock is an Associate Professor of Physiology & Pharmacology at West Virginia University, and has served as Director of the Cellular & Integrative Physiology Graduate Program since July of 2009. As Graduate Director, he leads a group of energetic faculty intent on engaging students in creating a new approach to the life sciences with the aim of explaining how the higher-level properties of complex biological systems interact and function. Dr. Brock earned his Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, and completed a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Fellowship at the Lawson Health Research Institute. Prior to joining WVU, Dr. Brock was an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. His research interests center on determining the mechanisms of microvascular and endothelial dysfunction that accompany various inflammatory and oxidative conditions, specifically diabetes and obesity. The American Heart Association and the NIDDK have funded Dr. Brock’s research on diabetic microvascular dysfunction over the past decade. He has served on numerous international and national study sections and editorial boards. Dr. Brock has held other leadership roles within the American Physiological Society, American Society for Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics and the Microcirculatory Society. He recently was elected Fellow of the Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Council of the American Heart Association.
Research Interest
Regulation of microvascular function; inflammation; oxidative stress