Vladimir Parpura, M.D., Ph.D.Vladimir Parpura, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neurobiology in the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been selected as a fellow of the American Physiological Society.
The society says the rank of fellow is reserved to honor distinguished leaders who have demonstrated excellence in science, have made significant contributions to the physiological sciences and have served the society. Physiology is a broad area of scientific inquiry that focuses on the biological function of living organisms.
Parpura earned his medical degree from the University of Zagreb in Croatia in 1989, and a doctorate in neuroscience and zoology from Iowa State University in 1993.
He joins eight other faculty at UAB as fellows of APS: P. Darwin Bell, Ph.D., professor emeritus, Division of Nephrology; John C. Chatham, Ph.D., Department of Pathology; Edward W. Inscho, Ph.D., Division of Nephrology; Sadis Matalon, Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology; Jimmy Neill, Ph.D., Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology; David Pollock, Ph.D., Division of Nephrology; Jennifer Pollock, Ph.D., Division of Nephrology; and J. Michael Wyss, Ph.D., Department of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology.