Michael J. Ryan

Biography: Professor Michael Ryan is the Associate Chief of Staff for Research at the William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans Affairs Hospital, and a Professor of Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, SC. Professor Ryan’s laboratory has made research contributions in two major areas. The first relates to understanding how immune system activation mechanistically promotes the pathogenesis of hypertension. Evidence suggests that human hypertension is associated with immune dysfunction including the production …