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2025
Stec Receives Meritorious Research Service Award
Dr. David E. Stec, Director, Cardiovascular-Renal Research Center (CRRC), was recently awarded the Meritorious Research Service Award from the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Research Excellence Awards on November 12, 2025. Dr. Stec, the Billy S. Guyton Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, is a 24-year member of the faculty at UMMC. Dr. Stec was recognized for his outstanding contributions to the research mission at UMMC through his innovative research program, excellence in teaching, and high level of service. Dr. Stec’s research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Heart Association for over 15 years. He has published over 135 manuscripts in leading cardiovascular journals. Dr. Stec has won several national and local awards for his research. Dr. Stec has mentored several postdoctoral fellows, medical students, graduate students, and undergraduate students. His mentees have won numerous awards from organizations like the American Physiological Society and the American Heart Association. Dr. Stec has a distinguished record of service to the research mission at UMMC, serving on several important committees both locally and nationally. Dr. Stec is also an Associate Editor for several high-impact journals in the field and serves as a regular peer-reviewer for over 35 journals. He has also been a primary organizer or co-organizer for several national and international meetings. The CRRC congratulates Dr. Stec on receiving this prestigious award.
Read more: OAVCR Excellence Awards honor 2025 research accomplishments (UMMC News)
2024
CRRC Monthly Seminar Series
George Bakris, MD, professor of medicine and director of the AHA Comprehensive Hypertension Center at the University of Chicago Medicine, will give the CRRC Monthly Seminar Series presentation, "An Update of Slowing Diabetic Kidney Disease: A Pillared Approach," at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 12, in Lower Amphitheatre R153.
Lunch will be provided.
2023
This Week in the CRRC
Available on the CRRC Newsletter Archive page on the intranet.
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- August 13, 2023
- July 30, 2023