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ASH Young Scholars Awards
 Anne E. Kwitek, Ph.D.
Dr. Anne Kwitek is an
Associate Professor at the University of Iowa in the Department of
Internal Medicine with a secondary appointment in Molecular Physiology & Biophysics.
Dr. Kwitek received her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of
Iowa in 1996, where she worked under the advisement of Dr. Val Sheffield
to initiate the genetic mapping and positional cloning of genes responsible
for Bardet Biedl Syndrome. She served a postdoctoral fellowship under
the mentorship of Dr. Howard Jacob in the Department of Physiology
at the Medical College of Wisconsin. There she began working on the
genetics of complex disease using rat models of hypertension. Dr.
Kwitek remained at the Medical College of Wisconsin where she attained
Assistant and Associate Professor ranking. In 2007, she was recruited
back to the University of Iowa where she works as an Associate Professor
in the Center for Functional Genomics of Hypertension.
Dr. Kwitek is an animal and human geneticist whose research revolves
around dissecting the genetic components of complex disease in rat
and human, with an emphasis on hypertension, diabetes, and the metabolic
syndrome. Her use of genome-wide approaches such as QTL mapping,
comparative genomics, transcriptomics, and high-throughput genotyping
has lead to the identification of loci and genes involved in diabetes
and cardiovascular disease in both rat models and human populations.
Her current work is focused on combining traditional positional cloning
approaches with in silico mapping strategies to identify genes
and pathways involved in the Metabolic Syndrome.
Dr. Kwitek has served on the Board of Scientific
Councilors at the National Center for Biotechnology Information
(NCBI), as representative of the Physiological Genomics Group for
the American Physiological Society Joint Program Committee, and
is on the Steering Committee for the AHA Interdisciplinary Council
on Functional Genomics and Translational Biology. She also is an
Associate Editor of the APS journal, Physiological Genomics, is
a member of the AHA High Blood Pressure Council, and is currently
a co-organizer of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Rat Genomics
and Models Meeting. She is honored to be awarded a Young Scholar’s
Award from the American Society of Hypertension.
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