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Kathryn Sandberg, PhD, has published extensively on the molecular physiology of the renin angiotensin system especially in the pathophysiology of hypertension and associated vascular and renal disease. She has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for more than 15 years and has received prestigious awards for her work including a Distinguished Scientist Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences, an Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, the Harriet Duston Award from the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and the Ernest H. Starling Distinguished Lectureship Award from the American Physiological Society.

Dr. Sandberg has served in leadership roles in numerous scientific organizations including as the founding President of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (ossdweb.org), President of Women in Nephrology, and President of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, DC Chapter. She has chaired the American Physiological Society Awards Committee as well as peer review committees for the American Heart Association and the National Kidney Foundation. She also served as chair of the 2012 Gordon Research Conference on Angiotensin. Dr. Sandberg served as Associate Editor for Gender Medicine and was the North American Editor for Cell Biology International and Section Editor for Sex-based biology in the Journal of Women? Health. She also serves on numerous editorial boards including Hypertension and the American Journal of Physiology-Renal.

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