Biography:Kim Barrett

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Kim E. Barrett is a research physiologist, specialising in digestive disorders such as inflammatory bowel disease. Her positions have included Professor of Medicine and Dean of Graduate Studies at UCSD; Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Physiology and President of the American Physiological Society.[1] Kim achieved her PhD in Biological Chemistry and her BSc in Medicinal Chemistry, both from University College London in 1982 and 1979 respectively.

In 2015 she was awarded the Bayliss-Starling Prize Lecturer by The Physiological Society.

Her key research activities have included Neuroimmunophysiology in the Gastrointestinal Tract, Intestinal Secretory Mechanisms and Bypassing the secretory defect in cystic fibrosis.

References

  1. Kim Barrett, University of California, San Diego, 2017, http://profiles.ucsd.edu/kim.barrett#toc-id0