Ronald Magness, PhD
Email: rmagness@wisc.edu
Title: Professor
Department: Obstetrics & Gynecology
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PubMed Publications
Education
BS 1977 Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
MS 1979 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
PhD 1982 Iowa State University, Ames, IA
1st Postdoctoral position: UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Research Focus
Major projects in the Magness Program include: 1) Endothelial-derived vasodilators in pregnancy: expression and endocrine signaling mechanisms; 2) Estrogen and progesterone regulation of endothelial nitric oxide and prostacyclin production as it affects uterine and systemic blood flow; 3) Uterine and placental angiogenesis, and how angiogenic factors affect uterine and placental blood flow; 4) the regulation of endothelial nitric oxide production in uterine and placental vasculature at the maternal fetal interface in both the human and ovine models; 5) the role of shear stress in modulating uterine and placental endothelial vasodilator production.
Program Activities
- Joined ERP Program: 1995
- Teaching
- Animal Sciences 875: Selected Topics
- Member - ERP Program Admissions Committee
Research Funding
- PI NIH 5 R01HL049210 07/01/93 - 05/31/12 Endothelium-Derived Vasodialators in Pregnancy
- PI NIH 5 R01HL087144 09/01/07 - 07/31/11 Physiologic Cardiovascular & Uterine eNOS Responses: Role of Endogenous Estrogen
- PI NIH 5 P01HD038843 04/01/00 - 04/30/12 Mechanisms of Endothelial and Embryonic Stem Cell Regulation in Pregnancy
- PI NIH 5 P01HD038843 (Project 2) 05/01/10 - 04/30/11 Shear Stress-Mediated Pregnancy Adaptations of Uterine Artery Endothelial
Trainees
| Current Trainees | Degree Goal |
| S. Omar Jobe | PhD |
| Tim Morschauser | MS |
| Mayra Pastore | PhD |
| Past Trainees | Degree Completed |
| Michael Byers | PhD |
| Tiffini Gibson | MS |
| Masaya Hayashi | MS |
| Dr. C. Kevin Huls | MS |
| Jeffery Joyce | MS |
| Adam King | MS |
| Yun Li | PhD |
| Heidi Rupnow | MS |