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Allen W. Cowley, Jr.
Allen W. Cowley, Jr. is Professor and Chairman of the Department of
Physiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Prior to that time, he was
Professor of Physiology working in the Department of Physiology and
Biophysics headed by Dr Arthur Guyton at the University of Mississippi
Medical Center.
Dr Cowley’s scientific interests are in the study of renal and vascular
mechanisms involved in the long-term control of arterial pressure. The
applications of molecular genetics to the understanding of complex
physiological function represents the central theme of most of his current
research. Working with a large team of physiologists, geneticists, clinical
scientists, and computational biologists, this work has resulted in the
first comprehensive systems biology genetic map of cardiovascular function
published in Science in 2001.
He is active in scientific and professional organizations. An active
member of the American Physiological Society since 1972, he has served as a
Councilor of the APS for five years and Chairman of the Water and
Electrolyte Homeostasis Section. From 1997 to 1999 he served on the
Executive Committee as President-elect, President, and Past-President of the
APS. He currently serves as the President of the International Union of
Physiological Sciences (IUPS) from 2001-2005. He has served as the President
of the Association of Chairmen of Departments of Physiology. From 1990-96 he
served on the Executive Committee as Vice-Chairman, Chairman and
Past-Chairman of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of American
Heart Association. Having served on a number of NIH study sections, he has
most recently served for four years as a member of the National Heart, Lung,
and Blood Advisory Council. He has served as an Associate Editor on more
than 10 editorial boards, including four journals of APS.
Cowley is director of the NIH Specialized Center for Hypertension
Research at the Medical College of Wisconsin, which has as its emphasis the
search for genes responsible for high blood pressure. He directs the NIH
Program “Blood Pressure-Determinants and Controllers” now in its 25th
year of continuous funding. He co-directs an NIH Program of Genomic
Applications (PGA) for the development of genetic model organisms that will
link genes to function. He is the director of a NIH training grant in high
blood pressure research and, throughout his career, has trained more than 30
post-doctoral fellows and students. He has been the recipient of many awards
and honors, including the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Scientific
Councils of the American Heart Association in 1996, the Novartis Award from
the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart
Association in 1997, the 1996 Ernest H. Starling Award and Distinguished
Lectureship of the APS Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section, and was
the recipient of the Walter B. Cannon Award of the APS in 2002.
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