Professor Charles E. Wood
Dr. Wood received his A.B. degree in Biochemistry from the
University of California, Berkeley, in 1974, and his Ph.D. degree in
Endocrinology from the University of California, San Francisco in
1980. After completion of his Ph.D. degree, he did a postdoctoral
fellowship with Dr. Abraham Rudolph in the Cardiovascular
Research Institute at UCSF. In 1983, he started as an Assistant
Professor of Physiology at the University of Florida. He rose
through the ranks and, in 1993 was promoted to the rank of
Professor. In 2002, he was named Chair of the Department of
Physiology and Functional Genomics at the University of Florida.
Research in this department focuses mainly on cardiovascular,
neural, and renal mechanisms of hypertension, and is currently among the top quintile of
departments of Physiology with regard to total NIH funding. Dr. Wood’s research focuses on
fetal endocrine and cardiovascular development and function in the late-gestation fetus, and
has accounted for improvements in our understanding of endocrine mechanisms of parturition
and of blood pressure and blood gas control of blood pressure and endocrine function. Dr.
Wood has been an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association, and he has
served as Chair of the Pregnancy and Neonatology study section at NIH.