School of Graduate Studies

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Name: Tamara Morris

Year in Program: 3rd

Department: Pharmacology

Mentor: Dr. Peter Winsauer

Hometown: New Orleans

Education: Louisiana State University, BS in Biological Sciences

Past Research Experience: Research Assistant at LSUHSC in pharmacology studying the effects of nicotine on hypertension.

Current Research Interest: Behavior Pharmacology

Publications:

  1. Morris T.M., Oakes J.M., Xu J., Woods D.C., Fried N.D., Pearson C.S., Lobell T.D., Gilpin N.W., Lazartigues E., Gardner J.D. & Yue X. Effects of Chronic Nicotine Inhalation on Systemic and Pulmonary Blood Pressure and Right Ventricular Remodeling in Mice. Hypertension. 2020; 75: 1305–1314, 2020.

 

  1. Fried N.D., Morris T.M., Whitehead A., Lazartigues E., Yue X. & Gardner J.D. Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Mediates Pulmonary Hypertension and Right Ventricular Remodeling Induced by Inhaled Nicotine. American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology 2021 320:4, H1526-H1534.

Career Goal: My career goal is to join the pharmacology industry.

What makes you unique? I have never drink a cup of coffee.