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It can't all be work, right? In my spare time I enjoy getting together with friends from college, and
from school here...

 


I'm interested in most forms of art, but photography in particular, though I may not have the keenest eye for any of it. Additionally, a group of us meet weekly to bowl as well as play racquetball and some of us (not me) have gotten pretty good.




   Hometown:

Mobile, AL



Undergraduate/Masters Institution:

Birmingham-Southern College



General Research Interests:

Free Radical Biology



 

My research has focused on the role of chronic nitric oxide exposure in vascular endothelial cell damage.

 


The major focus of our laboratory is to understand the role of free radicals in vascular biology, especially as they relate to the mitochondrion. Mitochondria have been described as a sink for free radicals in that they are a major source of their production as well as a major target for free radical signaling. My research has focused on the role of chronic nitric oxide exposure in vascular endothelial cell damage and its implications in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular diseases.


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