Brant Isakson

Upon completion of his PhD in Zoology and Physiology in 2003, Brant began a post-doc with Brian Duling at the University of Virginia and focused on heterocellular communication between endothelium and smooth muscle in the microcirculation. In 2007 Brant began his own lab at the University of Virginia as a Resident Faculty Member in the Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics. In 2017 Brant was given an endowed title of Pinn Scholar, and in 2018 promoted to Professor. He is currently PI of the longest running NIH Training Grant in the United States. Brant has over 130 publications, with many of them in Circulation Research, as well as Nature, Science Signaling, and Nature Communications. He has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2007, and sits on NIH study sections and editorial boards. He has multiple patents, and has licensed two antibodies and a mouse. He is especially proud of his trainees and their accomplishments; all of his pre- and post-docs received their own extramural funding, two received AHA CDAs, three received K99/R00s, and a plethora are now in faculty positions of their own.