Department of Physiology - The University of Arizona

Heddwen Brooks, Associate Professor of Physiology, has received the Young Investigator Award, Renal Section, of the American Physiological Society.

Sarah Nelson, a junior Biochemistry major in the Physiology lab of Dr. Heddwen Brooks, has been selected as a finalist for an American Physiological Society's 2008 David S. Bruce Undergraduate Research Award.

Chris Ferguson, a graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Physiology, has been awarded the 2008 Yuma Friendsof AHSC Young Investigator Award. Chris is doing research in the Orthopaedic Research
Laboratory in the College of Medicine. The College of Public Health website has more information about the award.

On May 1, 2008, Dr. Erik J. Henriksen, Professor of Physiology and of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Arizona, will be awarded the E.K. Frey – E. Werle Commemorative Gold Medal for outstanding research contributions on the role of the kallikrein-kinin system and related subjects in health and disease, such that these research achievements have significantly influenced the development of the field.

Dr. Tim Secomb has been elected chair of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs Advisory Council (GIDPAC). Congratulations!

Dr. Ann Baldwin has been featured in UANow. View the article here.

The Fall 2007 Physiology Undergraduate Program newsletter is now online. A list of all newsletters is also available.

Dr. Andrew Fuglevand has been invited and has agreed to serve as a
member of the NIH Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation Sciences Study
Section, Center for Scientific Review for the term beginning
immediately and ending June 30, 2011.

The Department of Physiology launched a new website on January 5, 2006.