Mark E. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of the Department of Medicine, and physician-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. A 1981 honors graduate in biology from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, Dr. Anderson received his Ph.D. in physiology and his M.D. from the University of Minnesota. He then completed his internal medicine residency and fellowships in cardiology and clinical cardiac electrophysiology at Stanford before joining the faculty at Vanderbilt in 1996. In October 2005, he moved to the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and in 2009 was named chairman and department executive officer of internal medicine. In 2012, he became director of the Cardiovascular Research Center. In 2014 he moved with his laboratory group to Johns Hopkins, and is very excited by our new R35 funding, and innovative collaborative projects in metabolism, mitochondrial biology, and oxidant signaling.