Biosketch of Dr. Monte S. Willis

Monte S. Willis, MD, PhD   Free - AJP: Heart & Circulatory Research Review 2012 Link to Research Lab Associate Professor Principal Investigator, McAllister Heart Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Director, Campus Health Services Laboratory, UNC at Chapel Hill Director, Sweat Chloride Testing, UNC Hospitals Assistant Director, Clinical Core (Chemistry) Laboratory, UNC Hospitals Contact Office: MBRB 2340B, phone number: (919) 843-1938 Research Laboratory : MBRB 2336, phone number: (919) 843-2757 Pager: (919) 216-5652 E-mail: monte_willis@med.unc.edu

Research Interests                                                                                                                                    

The role of the ubiquitin-proteasome system in regulating molecular mechanisms of cardiac disease

Education

Resident, Clinical Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern 2001-2004
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Texas Southwestern 2002-2004
Resident, Clinical Pathology, University of North Carolina, 2004-2005

Publications

View list of publications from PubMed

Current Funding

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NIH): Sept 1, 2010-May 31, 2015

Title: Myocyte specific regulation of metabolism and the response to biomechanical force (1R01HL104129-01)                               Role: Principal Investigator

Foundation LeDucq: January 2012-Dec 2016.                                                                                                                               Title: Proteotoxicity: an unappreciated mechanism of heart disease and its potential for novel therapeutics                                Role:  Member                                                                                                               http://www.fondationleducq.org/nivel2.aspx?idsec=1195