Dr. Jaggar received his Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. He did postdoctoral training at the University of Vermont in the USA. Currently, he is the Maury Bronstein Endowed Professor in the Department of Physiology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee. For almost 25 years, his independent research program has studied signaling mechanisms, trafficking, physiological functions and pathological alterations in a wide variety of different vascular ion channels. Research in his laboratory uses a wide variety of molecular, biochemical, cellular and functional techniques and cardiovascular disease and genetic animal models. Dr. Jaggar has trained more than 50 postdoctoral fellows and PhD students. Many of these individuals have gone on to become successful independent faculty, researchers, and clinicians. Dr. Jaggar is committed to making his laboratory a safe, inclusive, and diverse working environment by ensuring all laboratory members have access to any resources they might need, that they have open communication with him, and that all members undertake relevant diversity and harassment training.

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