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From left: Anuja Ghorpade, Ph.D., executive vice chairwoman and associate professor in the department of pharmacology and experimental neuroscience, with Dr. Joseph Gilmore and College of Medicine Dean John Gollan, M.D., Ph.D. |
Dr. Ghorpade was recognized for her outstanding research on the inflammation of the glia, the cells that hold together the cellular system of the brain.
The award is named for Dr. Gilmore, who was professor and chairman of the UNMC Department of Physiology from 1970-1987.
“I think the award selection committee has done an absolutely outstanding job in identifying productive young investigators with great potential,” Dr. Gilmore said. “Dr. Ghorpade is outstanding and UNMC should be very happy to have her want to fulfill her career here.”
Dr. Gilmore’s scientific career started in 1958 at the laboratory of cardiovascular physiology at the National Institutes of Health. While he already had 20 publications when he joined the NIH, between 1960 and 1966, he published 36 papers from this laboratory, many of which became part of cardiovascular physiology texts and the basis for much of the modern therapeutics in the practice of cardiology. In 1964, he Dr. Gilmore became chief of his NIH laboratory.
Over his career, Dr. Gilmore supervised 17 graduate students, 13 post-doctoral fellows and published more than 200 papers.