Jane F. Reckelhoff, Ph.D.

Dr. Reckelhoff is currently Billy S. Guyton Professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, and Director of the Women’s Health Research Center at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) in Jackson. Dr. Reckelhoff’s research focuses on the mechanisms responsible for the sex differences in blood pressure control and renal disease, postmenopausal hypertension, and hypertension in polycystic ovary syndrome. Her research has been continuously funded by NIH since 1993. Dr. Reckelhoff has received numerous awards.  She was recently the recipient of the Excellence in Hypertension Research Award from the American Heart Association Council on Hypertension, the most prestigious award given by this society, considered the “Nobel Prize” in hypertension research.  Dr. Reckelhoff also received the Harry Goldblatt Award, the Lewis K. Dahl Award, Harriett Dustan Award, and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Council on Hypertension, and the Ernest Starling Lecture from the American Physiological Society (APS), and served as President of the APS. Dr. Reckelhoff is also Director of and Principal Investigator of the Mississippi Center of Excellence in Perinatal Research.