Brenda Russell, Ph.D., Professor of Physiology, Biophysics, Bioengineering and Medicine, and Executive Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Illinois at Chicago – Dr Brenda Russell is Professor of Physiology, Biophysics, Bioengineering and Medicine, and Executive Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, and has been at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 1988. Dr Russell received her Ph.D. in Physiology under the direction of Professor Sir Andrew Huxley (Nobel Laureate), at the University of London, England. She has done research into muscle adaptation at Duke, UCLA, Rush University and UIC. She has NIH funding and has served on Study Sections for NIH and the American Heart Association. Dr Russell and Dr Tejal Desai (UCSF) founded Cell Habitats, Inc an early-stage biomedical device company developing an easy-to-administer, micro device that allows the natural repair and regeneration of damaged tissue.
