Education
- Ph.D. University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 1981
Research
- Cell adhesion, extracellular matrix and cell signaling in the vascular wall
- Mechanotransduction and mechanodetection in vascular cells
- Regulation of vascular and cardiac responses to tissue injury by extracellular matrix derived signals
- Mechanisms of vascular remodeling
- Mechanisms responsible for the myogenic properties of vascular smooth muscle
- Applications of Atomic Force Microscopy, fluorescence microscopy and 3D-image analysis for studies of microvascular cell biology and the cyto-architecture and function of the microvessel wall
- Mechanisms of blood flow autoregulation