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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH[JG1] Provide the following information for the key personnel in the order listed for Form Page 2. Follow the sample format for each person. DO NOT EXCEED FOUR PAGES.

NAME Tony G. Waldrop		POSITION TITLE Professor/Vice Chancellor
EDUCATION/TRAINING (Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.)
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION	DEGREE (if applicable)		YEAR(s)	FIELD OF STUDY
University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill	A.B.		1974	Political Science
University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill	M.A.		1980	Physical Education
University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill	Ph.D.		1981	Physiology
Univ. Texas Southwestern Med. School	Ph.D.		1982-1986	Physiology

A. Positions and Honors

Positions

1986‑1989 Assistant Professor, Physiology, University of Illinois-Urbana

1989-1994 Associate Professor, Physiology, University of Illinois-Urbana

1993-1999 Director, MD/PhD Program, University of Illinois-Urbana

1994-2001 Professor, Physiology, University of Illinois-Urbana

1997-1999 Acting Regional Dean, College of Medicine, University of Illinois-Urbana

1999-2000 Interim Vice Chancellor for Research & Dean of Graduate College, Univ. of Illinois

2000-2001 Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois-Urbana

2000-present Professor, Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina

2000-present Vice Chancellor for Research, University of North Carolina

Honors

1988-1993 Established Investigator, American Heart Association

1989-1991 University Scholar, University of Illinois

B. Selected from 98 peer-reviewed publications (in chronological order).

Horn, E.M. and T.G. Waldrop: Modulation of the respiratory response to hypoxia and hypercapnia by synaptic input onto caudal hypothalamic neurons. Brain Research 664:25‑33, 1994.

Shonis, C.A. and T.G. Waldrop: In vitro effects of GABA and hypoxia on posterior hypothalamic neurons from spontaneously hypertensive and Wistar‑Kyoto rats. Brain Research Bulletin 36:461‑466, 1995.

Ryan, J.W. and T.G. Waldrop: Hypoxia sensitive neurons in the rat caudal hypothalamus project to the periaqueductal gray. Respiration Physiology 100:185‑194, 1995.

Nolan, P.C., G. H. Dillon and T.G. Waldrop: Central hypoxic chemoreceptors in the ventrolateral medulla and caudal hypothalamus. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 393:261-266, 1995.

Nolan, P.C. and T.G. Waldrop: Ventrolateral medullary neurons show age dependent depolarizations. Developmental Brain Research 91:111-120, 1996.

Iwamoto, G.A., S.M. Wappel, G.M. Fox, K.A. Buetow and T.G. Waldrop: Identification of diencephalic and brainstem areas activated during exercise. Brain Research 726:109-122, 1996.

Iwamoto, G.A. and T.G. Waldrop: Lateral tegmental field neurons sensitive to muscular contraction: A role in pressor reflexes? Brain Research Bulletin 41:111-120, 1996.

Nolan, P.C. and T.G. Waldrop: In vitro responses of VLM neurons to hypoxia after normobaric hypoxic acclimatization. Respiration Physiology 105:23-33, 1996.

Nolan, P.C. and T.G. Waldrop: Integrative role of medullary neurones during exercise. Experimental Physiology 82:547-558, 1997.

Horn, E.M. and T.G. Waldrop: Oxygen-sensing neurons in the caudal hypothalamus and their role in cardiorespiratory control. Respiration Physiology 110:219-228, 1997.

Kramer, J.M. and T.G. Waldrop: Neural control of the cardiovascular system during exercise: An integrative role for the vestibular system. Journal of Vestibular Research 8:71-80, 1998.

Horn, E.M., C.A. Shonis, M.A. Holzwarth and T.G. Waldrop: Decreased glutamic acid decarboxylase in the hypothalamus of spontaneously hypertensive rats. Journal of Hypertension 16:625-633, 1998.

Horn, E.M. and T.G. Waldrop: Suprapontine control of respiration. Respiration Physiology 114:201-211, 1998.

Horn, E.M., G.H. Dillon, Y.-P. Fan and T.G. Waldrop: Developmental aspects and mechanisms of rat caudal hypothalamic neuronal responses to hypoxia. Journal of Neurophysiology 81:1949-1959, 1999.

Kramer, J.M., P.C. Nolan and T.G. Waldrop: In vitro responses of neurons in the periaqueductal gray to hypoxia and hypercapnia. Brain Research 835:197-203, 1999.

Horn, E.M., J.M. Kramer and T.G. Waldrop: Development of hypoxia-induced Fox expression in rat caudal hypothalamic neurons. Neuroscience 23:711-720, 2000.

Kramer, J.M., E.D. Plowey, J.A. Beatty, H.R. Little and T.G. Waldrop: Hypothalamus, hypertension and exercise. Brain Research Bulletin 53:77-85, 2000.

Horn, E.M. and T.G. Waldrop: Hypoxic augmentation of fast-inactivating and persistent sodium currents in rat caudal hypothalamic neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology 84:2572-2581, 2000.

Fan, Y.-P., E.M. Horn and Tony G. Waldrop: Biophysical characterization of rat caudal hypothalamic neurons: Calcium channel contribution to excitability. Journal of Neurophysiology 84:2896-2903, 2000.

Kramer, J.M., J.A. Beatty, H.R. Little, E.D. Plowey and T.G. Waldrop: Chronic exercise alters caudal hypothalamic regulation of the cardiovascular system in spontaneously hypertensive rats. American Journal of Physiology 280:R389-R397, 2001.

Kramer, J.M., A. Aragones and T.G. Waldrop: Reflex cardiovascular responses originating in exercising muscles of mice. Journal of Applied Physiology 90:579-585, 2001.

Little, H.R., J.M. Kramer, J.A. Beatty and T.G. Waldrop: Chronic exercise increases GAD gene expression in the caudal hypothalamus of spontaneously hypertensive rats. Molecular Brain Research 95:48-54, 2001.

Kramer, J.M. and T.G. Waldrop: Spontaneously hypertensive rats exhibit altered cardiovascular and neuronal responses to muscle. Experimental Physiology 86:717-724, 2001.

Kramer, J.M., T.G. Waldrop, L.A. Frizzzell, J.F. Zachary and W.D. O’Brien: Cardiopulmonary function in rats with lung hemorrhage induced by exposure to superthreshold pulsed ultrasound. Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine 20:1197-1206, 2001.

Kramer, J.M., J.A. Beatty E.D. Plowey, and T.G. Waldrop: Exercise and hypertension: A model for central neural plasticity. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology 29:122-126, 2002.

O’Brien, W.D., J.M. Kramer, T.G. Waldrop, L.A. Frizzell, R.J. Miller, J.P. Blue and Z.A. Zachary: Ultrasound-induced lung hemorrhage: role of acoustic boundary conditions at the pleural surface. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 111:1102-1109, 2002.

Ichiyama, R.M., A. Gilbert, T.G. Waldrop and G.A. Iwamoto: Changes in the exercise activation of diencephalic and brainstem cardiorespiratory areas after training. Brain Research 947:225-233, 2002.

Plowey, E.D., J.M. Kramer, J.A. Beatty and T.G. Waldrop: In vivo electrophysiological responses of pedunculopontine neurons to static muscle contraction. American Journal of Physiology 283:R1008-R1019, 2002).

Plowey, E.D. and T.G. Waldrop: Cobalt injections into the pedunculopontine nuclei attenuate the reflex diaphragmatic responses to muscle contraction in rats. Journal of Applied Physiology 96:301-307, 2003.