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Faculty Awards | Jeffrey Robbins, PhD | Cincinnati Children's

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Faculty Awards - Feb. 6, 2015

Research Achievement Award
Jeffrey Robbins, PhD
Executive Co-Director, Heart Institute
Director, Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology Professor of Pediatrics

Jeffrey Robbins, PhD, has been a driving force in the study of cardiovascular disease for decades, elevating the Heart Institute’s international profile and earning praise for his research into cardiac transgenesis and muscle contractile proteins. He conducted pioneering work in generating tissue-specific promoters and gene-targeting approaches for the heart.

As executive co-director of the Heart Institute and endowed chair
in the Division of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, his was the first laboratory to isolate genes encoding the major muscle proteins, and the first to ablate a major cardiac contractile protein and show its compensatory effects.

Robbins’ work has earned some of the most prestigious research awards given by the American Heart Association, the International Society for Heart Research and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. He has mentored more than 30 academic scientists who regard him as the “father of their careers.”

He has helped select the past two chairs of pediatrics and continues to work with the Cincinnati Children’s board to ensure strong leadership and dedication to research as a top priority.

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