Rebekah L. Gundry, PhD, FAHA
Stokes-Shackelford Professor of Physiology
Chair, UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology
Director, UNMC Center for Heart and Vascular Research
Scientific Director, UNMC Mass Spectrometry Core
Rebekah L. Gundry, PhD, is the Stokes-Shackelford Professor of Physiology and chair of UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology. She also serves as director of the Center for Heart and Vascular Research and as scientific director of UNMC's Mass Spectrometry Core.
Dr. Gundry leads a dynamic research group that exploits cutting-edge technologies to study the human heart and discover new molecular insight that fuels our understanding of disease processes and reveals untapped therapeutic targets.
She is principal investigator of a $11.8 million National Institutes of Health award to the Center for Heart and Vascular Research to create a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence focused on finding answers for heart and vascular diseases.
Recent honors include the 2023 Clinical and Translational Proteomics Award from the Human Proteome Organization, and UNeMed’s 2023 Emerging Inventor award.
She was recruited to UNMC in 2019 as professor and vice chair of the department and inaugural director of the CardiOmics Program. She established her independent laboratory in 2010 at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
- Bachelor's: Marquette University, 1999
- Master's: George Washington University, 2001
- PhD: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2006
- Postdoctoral: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2010
The Gundry laboratory makes discoveries of the human heart – transforming our understanding of what molecules are present in the human heart and how they change in disease. This new insight fuels our understanding of disease processes and reveals untapped therapeutic targets.
We are also developing new tools and reagents to promote the use of stem cell technologies for improved drug testing and disease modeling.
- Surfaceome mapping of primary human heart cells with CellSurfer uncovers cardiomyocyte surface protein LSMEM2 and proteome dynamics in failing hearts, Nature Cardiovascular Research, January 2023
- SurfaceGenie: a web-based application for prioritizing cell-type-specific marker candidates, Bioinformatics, June 2020
- The GENTIL Method for Isolation of Human Adult Cardiomyocytes from Cryopreserved Tissue for Proteomic Analyses, Methods in Molecular Biology, 2024
Full list of publications, National Library of Medicine
- Distinguished Scientist Award, UNMC, 2021
- Clinical and Translational Proteomics Award - International Human Proteome Organization, 2023