Currently, Dr. Waters is professor and vice-chair in the department of physiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine in Memphis, Tenn.
Dr. Waters’ research focuses on acute lung injury and drug transport in the brain. His research seeks to identify the levels of mechanical forces and the types of lung injury that cells experience in vivo. His research also focuses on developing in vitro models to evaluate cellular responses, and to identify mechanisms by which mechanical forces are transduced into biological signals.
His long-term goals are to understand the regulation of drug transport in the CNS, to develop in vitro and in vivo models to test camptothecin analogs, and to define parameters that can be used to compare drugs and ultimately improve therapy for children with primary CNS tumors.
Dr. Waters completed a B.S.E. from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, an M.S. from University of Miami, and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.
For more information on Dr. Waters’ research, visit http://physiol.utmem.edu/~watersc/index.php .
For additional information, contact Natalie Kent at (251) 461-1548.
