Elizabeth Murphy, PhD
National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH
Bethesda, Maryland

Session Chair
Nitrite, Ischemia-reperfusion and Mitochondrial Respiration

Dr Elizabeth Murphy received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Biochemistry.  She joined the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, in 1984 where she was the Head of the Cell Biology Section in the Laboratory of Signal Transduction.  In 2006, she became Head of the Cardiac Physiology Section in the Vascular Medicine Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.  She was elected a fellow of the American Heart Association and the International Society for Heart Research.  She is an Associated Editor for the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology and also serves on the editorial boards of Circulation, Circulation Research, and the American Journal of Physiology.  She is a member of NIH Study Section (Electrical Signaling, Transport and Arrhythmias).  She has served on a number of American Heart Association committees and is currently a member of the Basic Cardiovascular Sciences Leadership committee of the American Heart Association.  She is also Secretary of the American Section of the International Society for Heart Research.  Her research is focused on ionic alterations and signaling pathways in cell death and cardioprotection.