CIR Seminar: Professor Andrew Gow “Nitric Oxide in Health and Disease; Why NO is always the answer”Professor Andrew Gow Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers UniversityHost: Professor Richard WellerAttendance is compulsory at our seminars for CIR MSc and PhD studentsBio: I graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1986 with a degree in Biological Chemistry and completed my PhD at Temple University in 1995 where I studied exercise physiology and the role of pressure overload and volume overload on cardiac hypertrophy. I went on to do postdoctoral research with Harry Ischiropoulos at the University of Pennsylvania, where I was able to combine my interests by examining NO chemistry within vascular biology and cell signaling. I was able to discover novel mechanisms of NO reactivity within biological systems and in particular the importance of thiols. In 1997 I moved to Duke University to become an assistant professor and continued my work on NO and thiols in collaboration with Jonathan Stamler. I found that Hemoglobin could regulate NO levels in the vasculature and contribute significantly to hypoxic vasodilation. In 2000 I moved back to the University of Pennsylvania where I started my own lab studying NO, thiols, and inflammation within the lung. In 2007 I moved to Rutgers University in New Jersey to become a full professor and expand my work in NO and pulmonary health. At this time I expanded my work to consider how environment and environmental exposures could alter NO signaling and their effects on lung function and inflammation. I have continued to extend this research to consider the importance of NO in oxygen acquisition and delivery. Today, I work with the VA to study Deployment Related Respiratory Disease, with the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute to study countermeasures for chemical agents of terror, such as chlorine and nitrogen mustard, as well as the effects of pollution on vascular function and cognition. Current projects also include using lipid nanomaterials to deliver mRNA to the lung to reduce lung injury and to treat emphysema. I am the former president of the Nitric Oxide Society and chair of the Gordon Conference on NO, as well as the current President of the Immunotoxicology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology. I serve on a number of editorial boards as well as being the Editor-in-Chief of Applied In Vitro Toxicology. I teach in the Doctor of Pharmacy program at Rutgers and run the PharmD/PhD joint degree program as well as conducting the mentor training program for Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences. Tags CIR Jan 28 2026 12.00 - 13.00 CIR Seminar: Professor Andrew Gow “Nitric Oxide in Health and Disease; Why NO is always the answer” IRR South large seminar room 1.05
CIR Seminar: Professor Andrew Gow “Nitric Oxide in Health and Disease; Why NO is always the answer”Professor Andrew Gow Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers UniversityHost: Professor Richard WellerAttendance is compulsory at our seminars for CIR MSc and PhD studentsBio: I graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1986 with a degree in Biological Chemistry and completed my PhD at Temple University in 1995 where I studied exercise physiology and the role of pressure overload and volume overload on cardiac hypertrophy. I went on to do postdoctoral research with Harry Ischiropoulos at the University of Pennsylvania, where I was able to combine my interests by examining NO chemistry within vascular biology and cell signaling. I was able to discover novel mechanisms of NO reactivity within biological systems and in particular the importance of thiols. In 1997 I moved to Duke University to become an assistant professor and continued my work on NO and thiols in collaboration with Jonathan Stamler. I found that Hemoglobin could regulate NO levels in the vasculature and contribute significantly to hypoxic vasodilation. In 2000 I moved back to the University of Pennsylvania where I started my own lab studying NO, thiols, and inflammation within the lung. In 2007 I moved to Rutgers University in New Jersey to become a full professor and expand my work in NO and pulmonary health. At this time I expanded my work to consider how environment and environmental exposures could alter NO signaling and their effects on lung function and inflammation. I have continued to extend this research to consider the importance of NO in oxygen acquisition and delivery. Today, I work with the VA to study Deployment Related Respiratory Disease, with the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute to study countermeasures for chemical agents of terror, such as chlorine and nitrogen mustard, as well as the effects of pollution on vascular function and cognition. Current projects also include using lipid nanomaterials to deliver mRNA to the lung to reduce lung injury and to treat emphysema. I am the former president of the Nitric Oxide Society and chair of the Gordon Conference on NO, as well as the current President of the Immunotoxicology Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology. I serve on a number of editorial boards as well as being the Editor-in-Chief of Applied In Vitro Toxicology. I teach in the Doctor of Pharmacy program at Rutgers and run the PharmD/PhD joint degree program as well as conducting the mentor training program for Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences. Tags CIR Jan 28 2026 12.00 - 13.00 CIR Seminar: Professor Andrew Gow “Nitric Oxide in Health and Disease; Why NO is always the answer” IRR South large seminar room 1.05
Jan 28 2026 12.00 - 13.00 CIR Seminar: Professor Andrew Gow “Nitric Oxide in Health and Disease; Why NO is always the answer”
