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Research Highlights
VA Physician Receives Novartis Award for Hypertension Research
Taken from the Veterans Health Administration Highlights dated October 11, 2002
Gerald F. DiBona, MD, chief of medical services at the Iowa City VA Medical Center and professor at the University of Iowa College of Medicine, received the Novartis Award for Hypertension Research recently. DiBona, who has conducted research for VA since 1969, shared the award with John Hall, Ph.D., of the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
The work of both researchers has challenged the long-held view that high blood pressure causes kidney disorders. DiBona’s and Hall’s findings suggest, rather, that increased nerve activity to the kidneys limits their ability to excrete salt and water, which results in hypertension.
DiBona, who is also an adjunct professor at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, won VA’s Middleton Award in 1995. The award is VA’s highest honor for biomedical investigators.
The Novartis Award for Hypertension Research is sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, and is presented each year at the American Heart Association’s High Blood Pressure meeting.
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