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M. Ian Phillips, PhD, DSc, FAHA
Norris Professor of Applied Life Sciences

Areas of Expertise:
  • Biology of Stem Cells
  • Gene Regulatory Networks

Dr. M. Ian Phillips received his PhD and DSc in Pharmacology at the University of Birmingham in the UK. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan. His first academic appointment was as an instructor and Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology. He later became Professor of Physiology and of Pharmacology at the University of Iowa. Dr. Phillips received the award of Humboldt Foundation Scholar and spent a year in Germany at the University of Heidelberg and in Switzerland at the University of Zurich. He was a visiting scientist at NIH and Program Director of Neurobiology at the National Science Foundation in Washington DC. At the NSF he worked with the White House Office of Technology on “the Decade of the Brain.”

Dr. Phillips moved to the University of Florida in 1980 as the Chairman of Physiology in the College of Medicine. At UF he built a modern gene-oriented Department of Physiology and founded the Division of Functional Genomics.  In research Dr Phillips discovered a hormonal system, the renin angiotensin system, in the brain, heart, blood vessels and fat cells. His discoveries had broad significance for the development of new antihypertensive drugs. He was a consultant for Merck, Squibb and Hoechst. At the University of Florida he initiated a gene therapy and stem cell therapy approach to hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. For his research he received major grants, including a prestigious MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health and grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Foundation.

In 2002 Dr. Phillips was appointed Vice President for Research at the University of South Florida, Tampa.  As Vice President he organized the construction of the Research Building and Business Incubator in the USF Research Park, increased the economic impact of the university on Florida and increased the total research awards to USF.  In 2006 Dr. Phillips moved his laboratory to Keck Graduate Institute to pursue his stem cell therapy studies full time. In 2007 he was appointed Norris Professor of Applied Life Sciences.

During his career Dr. Phillips has published 11 books and more than 300 papers and reviews. He has taught over 3,000 medical students and trained 40 PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.  He holds the 2002 Christopher Columbus Award for Science and Technology, the Lucian Award (McGill University) for research in circulatory disease and is a Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA).

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Contact Information

M. Ian Phillips
909/607-7487
Ian_Phillips@kgi.edu

Resources

Ian Phillips' Web site