Faculty Academic Achievements

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Research Productivity

Department Faculty Members publish 45-50 PubMed listed articles each year in peer-reviewed international journals. [LINK to 2006 publications]

These journals include, in the past 10 years, with current impact factors in brackets:

Nature (29.2), Physiol Rev (28.7), Trends Neurosci (14.3), Annu Rev Physiol (13.4); Gastroenterology (12.4), Current Biology (11.7), PNAS (10.2), Circ Res (9.4), Hum Mol Genet (7.7), Gut (7.7), J Neurosci (7.5).

Editorial Responsibilities 1992-2007

Dr. Sanders – Journal of Physiology (Editor, 1994-2000)
Autonomic Neuroscience (Associate Editor, 1999-2004)
Neurogastroenterology and Motility (Associate Editor, 2000-2004)
American Journal of Physiology (Editorial Board, 1985-1999)

Dr. Ward – Neurogastroenterology and Motility (Editorial Board, since 2005)
British Journal of Pharmacology (Editorial Board, since 2005)

Dr. Hume – American Journal of Physiology (Associate Editor, 1993-1998)
Circulation Research (Editorial Board)

Dr. Keef – American Journal of Physiology (Editorial Board, 1992-1997)

Dr. von Bartheld – Histology & Histopathology (Editorial Board, since 2000)
Brain Behavior & Evolution (Guest Editor, 2005-2006)

International Meetings organized 1996 – 2006

Dr. Sanders: FASEB Smooth Muscle Meeting, 1996
FASEB Smooth Muscle Meeting, 2000
International Symposium on Interstitial Cells of Cajal, 2005

Dr. Ward International Symposium on Interstitial Cells of Cajal, 2005

Dr. Koh International Symposium on Interstitial Cells of Cajal, 2005

Dr. von Bartheld: Evolution of Neurotrophic Factors, Washington DC, 2005

Honors/Awards

Foundation Professorships (Dr. Sanders: 1993, Dr. Hume: 1999, Dr. Ward: 2006)
Janssen Prize in Gastroenterology (Dr. Sanders: 1995, Dr. Ward: 2000, Dr. Smith: 2003, Dr. Spencer: 2005)

Funding

The Department ranked 34th in the nation in 2006 in funding among US Medical School Physiology Departments.
The Department ranked highly among UNSOM departments in NIH funding in 2006 ($2.7 million).
The Department developed two NCRR/NIH-funded Centers of Biomedical Excellence (“COBREs”) at UNR.
The Department holds an NIH-funded Program Project Grant in its 18th year.

Excellence in Graduate Student Education

Our Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology (CMPP) graduate program attracts and trains excellent students. For example, Elizabeth A. Beckett, graduate of 2004, received three Young Investigator Awards from International Motility Meetings (Brugges, 1999 and Wisconsin, 2001) and the European Symposium on Neurogastroenterology (Tubingen, 2002); Scott A. Croes, graduate of 2007, was invited to speak at one of the prestigious Gordon Research conferences (2005); and David McKemy, graduate of 1998, went on to publish as a first author in Nature nearly three years after graduation.