Franco Puleo Receives the 2019-2020 American Physiology Society Porter Physiology Development Fellowship
Congratulations to Franco Puleo who has been awarded the 2019-2020 American Physiology Society Porter Physiology Development Fellowship. His research, “Sympathetic Nervous System Regulation of the NCC in Salt Sensitive Hypertension,” focuses on renal mechanisms of blood pressure control in salt sensitive hypertension. The Porter Physiology Development Fellowship provides Franco a year’s stipend support for his research.
Franco is a Program in BioMolecular Pharmacology PhD candidate who is doing is dissertation research in the Laboratory for Cardiovascular-Renal Research under the mentorship of Richard D. Wainford, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, and member of the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute at Boston University. Franco joined Dr. Wainford’s lab in 2017. He was awarded the Caroline tum Suden/Francis A. Hellebrandt Professor Opportunity Award from the APS at the 2018 Experimental Biology Annual Meeting in San Diego, California.
Again, kudos to Franco Puleo for his continued pursuit of excellence and dedication to his research.