Eleanor Davies - F1000 Faculty Member (since 11 November 2005)
Department of Molecular Endocrinology, Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
BIOGRAPHY
ACADEMIC POSITION:Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Non-Clinical Lecturer in Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
EDUCATION:
Dr Davies graduated from Glasgow University with a BSc (Hons) Biochemistry and then from Edinburgh University with a PhD. After a 3-year INSERM Fellowship in Paris, she returned to Glasgow in 1994.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr Davies' main research interests are the role of the steroid hormones aldosterone and cortisol in cardiovascular disease. These hormones are made in the adrenal gland by the enzymes aldosterone synthase and 11B-hydroxylase and are encoded by the CYP11B2 and CYP11B1 genes respectively.
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