The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Allied Sciences at NDSU has invited distinguished scientist Mark T. Nelson to deliver a research lecture and to meet with the department faculty and graduate students. He will present “Astrocyte Control of Local Blood Flow in the Brain” on Tuesday, May 5, at 9 a.m. in Sudro Hall, room 26.

Nelson is professor and chair of the pharmacology department at the University of Vermont’s College of Medicine in Burlington. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Tuft University in Medford, Mass., and a doctoral degree in neural science from Washington University in St. Louis.

Nelson has received numerous awards and honors, including Fellow of American Heart Association and the Council on Basic Cardiovascular Sciences, University Scholar of the University of Vermont, Louis N. Katz Research Prize for Young Investigators, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Fellow, American Heart Association Fellow and the National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Fellow.

Nelson is recipient of numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health. He served several National Institutes of Health study sections as a reviewer and chaired the National Institutes of Health O’Brien Urology Center Grant. He is serving on editorial boards of Molecular Pharmacology, the Journal of Smooth Muscle Research and Physiological Reviews.

His research focus is in the area of cardiovascular pharmacology. Nelson has published more than 200 research papers and book chapters. His publications are in high impact journals such as Science, Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and are highly cited.

This seminar is open to all persons interested in pharmaceutical and biomedical research. For more information, contact Jagdish Singh at 1-7943.