Episode 4: Hypertension Research- Dr. Chastity Bradford, Associate Professor of Biology, Tuskegee University

Dr. Chastity Bradford completed her undergraduate studies at Spelman College (an HBCU)  earning a B.S. in Biology.  While there she was a  Microbiology Scholar, received a Howard Hughes Fellowship (Loyola University, Chicago, IL), and made Spelman College’s Honor Society as well as the Dean’s List.  Chastity started her graduate studies in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Her research area focused on Cardiovascular Physiology in Dr. Pamela A. Lucchesi's Lab. Her dissertation work focused on The Role of the Renin-Angiotensin System in Extracellular Matrix Remodeling During the Progression of Hypertension and the Development of Cardiac Fibrosis Currently, Dr. Bradford is an Associate Professor of Biology in the College of Arts and Science at Tuskegee University (an HBCU). As the Principal Investigator of her own lab, the Bradford Lab, she uses hemodynamic, molecular, biochemical, and immunohistological analyses to determine if ACE2 overexpression prevents Angiotensin-II induced HTN and rescues Pulmonary Hypertension.