Dr. Kathleen Martin

Biography

Kathleen Martin graduated from Hiram College with a major in Biology and earned her PhD from Case Western Reserve University in Physiology and Biophysics. She completed postdoctoral fellowships in cell biology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Martin joined the faculty at Dartmouth Medical School in 2000 in the Section of Vascular Surgery, Department of Pharmacology, where she initiated her research program focused on studying vascular smooth muscle cell biology in cardiovascular disease. In 2009, she became an Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Yale, and was promoted to Professor in 2019. Dr. Martin has held multiple leadership roles within the American Heart Association and served as a member of an NIH charter study section. Currently, she is the Co-Director of the Yale Cardiovascular Research Center. Her research focuses on defining cellular signaling and epigenetic mechanisms that regulate vascular smooth muscle cell function, particularly in the context of intimal hyperplasia, atherosclerosis, and transplant vasculopathy. She aims to understand the phenotypic alterations of smooth muscle cells to gain insights for the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease.

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