Heddwen L Brooks

Heddwen L Brooks

Professor, Physiology
Professor, Medicine
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Physiological Sciences - GIDP
Associate Professor, Pharmacology
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Primary Department
Department Affiliations
Contact
(520) 626-7702

Research Interest

Dr. Brooks is a renal physiologist and has developed microarray technology to address in vivo signaling pathways involved in the hormonal regulation of renal function. Current areas of research in the Brooks Laboratory are focused on importance of sex differences in the onset of postmenopausal hypertension and diabetic kidney disease and identifying new therapies for polycystic kidney disease and lithium-induced nephropathy.

Publications

Brooks, H. L., Beckman, J. J., Mazade, R. E., Hoon, M., Bernstein, A. S., Romero-Aleshire, M. J., Moore-Dotson, J. M., & Eggers, E. D. (2015). Retinal GABAergic signaling is compromised in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes. TBD.