|
Dr. Sessa is Vice Chairman and Professor of the Department of Pharmacology at the Yale School of Medicine. He is the incoming Director of the Vascular Biology and Transplantation Program at Yale. Dr. Sessa has achieved national and international recognition for the development and application of basic cellular and molecular biological techniques to physiologically important questions in the cardiovascular system. The primary emphasis of his work focuses on the synthesis and functions of nitric oxide production in the vascular endothelium as it pertains to endothelial dysfunction, vascular remodeling and angiogenesis. Dr. Sessa received a Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Sciences, an MS at the University of Rhode Island and Ph.D. at New York Medical College. He then conducted post-doctoral work at the William Harvey Research Institute in London and the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Sessa has been recognized by a number of honors including the John J. Abel Award in Pharmacology from the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and the Robert Berne Distinguished Lectureship from the American Physiological Society. | 