Professional Bio
Annet Kirabo, PhD, is Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is interested in understanding the role of inflammation and host-microbiota interaction in salt-induced hypertension.
She obtained her PhD from the Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics at the University of Florida College of Medicine. During her PhD training, she was awarded an American Heart Association (AHA) predoctoral fellowship to determine the specific involvement of vascular smooth muscle cell expression of Jak2 in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease.
As a postdoctoral research fellow under the mentorship of Dr. David Harrison at Vanderbilt, Dr. Kirabo investigated the role of inflammation in hypertension. Her studies found that hypertension leads to activation of antigen presenting dendritic cells and that this is superoxide- and isolevuglandin-mediated. She was awarded an AHA postdoctoral fellowship to complete these studies, which are now published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Dr. Kirabo's lab publishes regularly in journals such as Circulation, Circulation Research, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Hypertension, American Journal of Physiology, JCI Insight and Cell Reports. Her standing in the field is evidenced by permanent NIH study section membership and numerous ad hoc NIH study section assignments as well as peer nominated national/international awards including the AHA Harry Goldblatt Award.
Publications
Education
DVM - Makerere University, 2002
Fellowship - California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2004
PhD - Physiology & Functional Genomics - University of Florida, 2010
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307