Dr. Alan Morrison appointed as Junior Investigator with the CPVB COBRE

Dr. Alan Morrison has been appointed as a Junior Investigator with the CPVB COBRE at the Ocean State Research Institute. Morrison is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at Warren Alpert Medical School Brown University. He completed his residency and fellowship at Yale New Haven Hospital. His project is titled “Statins Influence Cardiovascular Outcomes by Modulation of Atherosclerotic Plaque Calcium Density”. Dr. Morrison’s laboratory focuses on mechanisms of immune-mediate vascular remodeling by studying the macrophage-directed the biologic processes of arteriogenesis, atherosclerosis and atherosclerotic calcification, and pulmonary arterial hypertension. The overarching goal of the research in his lab is to define macrophage-dependent signaling mechanisms that modulate these processes in order to identify novel targets for the development of new inhibitory strategies that might one day be used in the clinic.