Pedro A. Jose, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine in the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension and professor of pharmacology and physiology at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), was a co-recipient of the prestigious 2015 Excellence Award in Hypertension Research, presented by the American Heart Association.
Jose received the award, which honors excellence in research and discoveries in hypertension, for his landmark research, which analyzes the relationship between a high-sodium diet and an increase in blood pressure.
“Rather than prescribing ‘trial and error’ drugs to our hypertension patients, [Jose and] his research will enable treatment of patients based on their genetic makeup,” said Alan Wasserman, M.D., chair of the Department of Medicine and Eugene Meyer Professor of Medicine at SMHS.
