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ASH
Young Scholars Awards
 David E. Stec, PhD
Dr. David E. Stec is an Assistant Professor
in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics at the University
of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. Dr. Stec
received his Ph.D. degree in physiology from the Medical College
of Wisconsin working with Dr. Richard J. Roman and completed post
doctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Curt D. Sigmund at the
University of Iowa College of Medicine in Iowa City, IA.
Dr. Stec’s research focuses on
the role of the kidney in hypertension with emphasis on the renal
heme oxygenase system. Dr. Stec’s
research has demonstrated an important role of renal medullary heme
oxygenase in the regulation of blood pressure. Dr. Stec’s lab
has also created novel transgenic mouse models in which heme oxygenase-1
(HO-1) can be altered in different cell types within the kidney and
is currently examining how alterations in HO-1 in thick ascending
loop of Henle cells regulates sodium and water transport as well
as blood pressure.
Dr. Stec has received several awards for his
research including the Merck Award from the Council for High Blood
Pressure Research of the American Heart Association as well as
a Young Investigator Travel Award from the International Society
of Hypertension. Dr. Stec’s research is currently funded
by the National Institutes of Health.
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