Assistant Professor Justin L. Grobe, PhD, FAHA has been selected to receive the 2015 Harry Goldblatt Award from the American Heart Association / Council on Hypertension.  This award recognizes a new independent investigator working in hypertension research who has significantly contributed to our understanding of the causes of hypertension and related cardiovascular disease.  The award is named after Dr. Harry Goldblatt (an Iowa native, born in Muscatine, IA), a pathologist who established the first reliable experimental animal model of hypertension in 1934 which bears his name; the “Goldblatt” or 2-kidney/1-clip model.  Dr. Grobe was selected for this great honor based on his laboratory’s research contributions to the areas of neural control of cardio-metabolic function, the involvement of the neurohypophysis in the pregnancy-associated hypertensive disorder preeclampsia, and technical advancements in the area of metabolic rate assessment in experimental animals. 

Congratulations Justin!