Virginia H Huxley

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Director, National Center for Gender Physiology, University of Missouri
• Professor, Department of Medical Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Missouri

EDUCATION:
• Obtained AB in chemistry and computer science, Hollins College
• Obtained PhD in biophysics, University of Virginia
• Completed postdoctoral studies, University of California, Davis

MEMBERSHIPS AND AWARDS:
• Elected member of several national societies including Biophysical Society, American Physiological Society, Microcirculatory Society and Society of Biomedical Engineering
• Serves as a reviewer for national and international journals and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Physiology, Microvascular Research, and Microcirculation
• Established Investigator of the American Heart Association (1987-92)
• Selected as Merit Awardee of the NIH

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The major objective of Dr Huxley's laboratory is to understand solute, water and gas transfer between circulating blood and metabolizing tissue. Knowledge of the barriers to transport in live tissue is required to clarify the processes underlying the development of dysfunctional states such as edema or shock. With that knowledge, strategies can be designed to treat pathologies with the goals of first, abating; second, arresting; and third, reversing the disease process.

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