2009
Research Recognition Award
Dr. Belinda Houghton received a Research Recognition Award from the Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation section of the American Physiological Society
Dr. Belinda Houghton was one of four individuals who received a Research Recognition Award from the Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation section of the American Physiological Society at the April 2009 Experimental Biology meeting in New Orleans. The research presentation was based on studies undertaken during the course of her PhD studies (2005-2008) in the Department of Physiology at University College Cork and under the supervision of Professor Edward Johns. The presentation reported on the interplay between vasopressin and glutamate at the spinal level in regulating sympathetic nerve activity to the kidney under different conditions of dietary sodium intake.This is the second prestigious award made to Dr. Houghton for her research at UCC by the American Physiological Society. She is now a research fellow in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the Oregon Helath and Science University in Portland, Oregon, USA and continuing her research into the neural control of the kidney in the research latoratories of Dr Virginia Brooks. ( photo Prof E.Johns/ Dr B. Houghton)