Carol C Gregorio, PhD

Carol Gregorio, PhD, director of the Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program at the UA College of Medicine, is the co-director of the UA Sarver Heart Center, the Czarina M. and Humberto S. Lopez Endowed Chair for Excellence in Cardiovascular Research, and the Luxford/Schoolcraft Endowed Professor of Cardiovascular Disease Research. She also heads the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. As a basic scientist, she has a special research interest in the contractile proteins of heart muscle. Not only has she made major contributions to the understanding of heart muscle abnormalities, but she also has been an integral part of the UA College of Medicine's goal to strengthen its translational research and the UA Sarver Heart Center's effort to recruit other outstanding basic scientists. A native of New York, Dr. Gregorio obtained her bachelor and master degrees from SUNY Buffalo and her PhD from Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York. She did her postdoctoral research at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. She joined the UA faculty in 1996. She is a member of the BIO5 Institute.