Denis Buxton, Ph.D.

Dr. Buxton is the Chief of the Advanced Technologies and Surgery Branch in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at NHLBI. After obtaining his PhD in London, he went to the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio working on substrate metabolism. As an associate professor of pharmacology at UCLA, he studied cardiac ischemia and reperfusion using PET. He came to NHLBI via the intramural program, where he worked on signal transduction and nonmuscle myosins.