James M. Anderson (scientist)

James M. Anderson is an American Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology and is a Chief of Section of Digestive Diseases at the Yale School of Medicine. Anderson is also a director of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives at the National Institutes of Health.

For other people with the same name, see James Anderson (disambiguation).
James M. Anderson
Director of the NIH Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives
In office
September 2010 – incumbent
Appointed byFrancis Collins
Preceded byposition established
Personal details
EducationYale College (B.S.)
Harvard University (Ph.D., M.D.)

Education

Anderson received his B.S. in Biology from Yale College in 1974 and five years later got a Ph.D. from Harvard University in the same field. He holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School which he obtained in 1983.[1]

Career

In 2002, Anderson became a professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] In this capacity, he served on the advisory group for the UNC Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) program.

In September 2010, Anderson was appointed by Francis Collins as the director of the Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives.[1][2]

Anderson has clinical experience in Internal Medicine and Hepatology and is considered among the top authorities in the world in his primary research field of tight junctions and paracellular transport.[1][3][4] Anderson researches the paracellular barrier in a laboratory located in the intramural research program of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.[4] He has been a principal investigator on NIH grants for almost twenty years.[1] He has authored or co-authored over 180 scientific articles, reviews, and book chapters.[5]

In 2018 he helped fund the invention of the Human Biomolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP).[6]

Awards and honors

Anderson is an elected Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.[5] Anderson has received several awards including the 2007 Takeda Distinguished Research Award and the Walter B. Cannon Award, the most prestigious award bestowed by the American Physiological Society.[7]

References
  1. "NIH Director Announces Appointment of James Anderson as Director of the NIH Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives". National Institutes of Health (NIH). August 9, 2010. Retrieved February 21, 2019. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. "Anderson appointed Director of NIH Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic Initiatives". August 19, 2010. Archived from the original on November 9, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  3. Anderson, J. M.; Van Itallie, C. M. (14 August 2009). "Physiology and Function of the Tight Junction". Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 1 (2): a002584. doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a002584. PMC 2742087. PMID 20066090.
  4. NIH Deputy Directors Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  5. "James Anderson, M.D., Ph.D. | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)". www.nhlbi.nih.gov. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  6. "NIH to build a detailed map of cells within the human body". National Institute of Health. September 26, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  7. Winner of the APS Walter B. Canon Award Retrieved February 21, 2019.
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