Dr. Hobbs directs the Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center, which includes the Dallas Heart Study, a multiyear, multimillion dollar project aimed at learning more about the hidden causes of heart disease and finding new treatments. She also directs the Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development and is an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at UT Southwestern, She credits her four years spent as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of UT Southwestern Nobel laureates Dr. Michael Brown and Dr. Joseph Goldstein for providing her with the scientific foundation to embark on an independent research career. A graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Dr. Hobbs said the promise of translational research researchers transferring scientific discoveries quickly from the lab to patients in the clinic has never been greater.
"The sequencing of the human genome, the development of new imaging methodologies, and the emergence of biomedicine as a pre-eminent science have converged to make it an ideal time for the clinical scientist," she said. "This recognition from the American Heart Association is a tremendous honor."
Dr. Hobbs is a member of the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and holds the Eugene McDermott Distinguished Chair for the Study of Human Growth and Development and the Dallas Heart Ball Chair in Cardiology Research.
The designation of "Distinguished Scientist"
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16-Nov-2005