Heidi E. Hamm

Heidi E. Hamm, Ph.D. is the Aileen M. Lange and Annie Mary Lyle Chair in Cardiovascular Research, and Professor of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University. She was Chair of Pharmacology from 2000-2014. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1980 from the Department of Zoology at the University of Texas-Austin and did postdoctoral training in the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1980-1983. She held faculty appointments at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine and Northwestern University before moving to Vanderbilt in 2000. Glaxo Cardiovascular Discovery Award, the Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression, the Faculty of the Year award from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and the Stanley Cohen Award “For Research Bringing Diverse Disciplines, such as Chemistry or Physics, to Solving Biology’s Most Important Fundamental Problems” from Vanderbilt University in 2003. She gave the Fritz Lipmann Lecture at ASBMB in 2001. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Sciences.