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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2010 - Distinguished Scientist Award, American Heart Association
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians
  • Member of the Association of American Physicians

Overview

David G. Harrison is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily centers on medicine, with a particular focus on immunology, nutrition and dietetics, cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, molecular biology, and physiology. The scientist's body of work explores several main topics including sodium intake and health, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases, blood pressure and hypertension studies, hormonal regulation and hypertension, stress responses and cortisol, HIV-related health complications and treatments, and phagocytosis and immune regulation.

The scholar has published notable papers including:

  • "Inflammation in Hypertension," 2020, Canadian Journal of Cardiology
  • "Endothelial function in cardiovascular medicine: a consensus paper of the European Society of Cardiology Working Groups on Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology, Aorta and Peripheral Vascular Diseases, Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation, and Thrombosis," 2020, Cardiovascular Research
  • "Pathophysiology of Hypertension," 2021, Circulation Research
  • "Therapeutic targeting of inflammation in hypertension: from novel mechanisms to translational perspective," 2021, Cardiovascular Research
  • "Sodium activates human monocytes via the NADPH oxidase and isolevuglandin formation," 2020, Cardiovascular Research

Frequent co-authors contributing to their work include David M. Patrick, Mingfang Ao, Néstor de la Visitación, Liang Xiao, and Elizabeth M. Hennen.

They have published extensively in several well-known venues, with the most frequent publications appearing in:

  • Hypertension
  • Circulation Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cardiovascular Research
  • Circulation

Recognition for contributions to the scientific community includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012, receiving the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association in 2010, and membership in the Association of American Physicians.

Best Publications

  • Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY.

    Elizabeth J Williamson;Alex J Walker;Krishnan Bhaskaran;Seb Bacon

  • Endothelial Dysfunction in Cardiovascular Diseases: The Role of Oxidant Stress

    Hua Cai;David G. Harrison

  • Angiotensin II-mediated hypertension in the rat increases vascular superoxide production via membrane NADH/NADPH oxidase activation. Contribution to alterations of vasomotor tone.

    S Rajagopalan;S Kurz;T Münzel;M Tarpey

  • Hypercholesterolemia increases endothelial superoxide anion production.

    Yuichi Ohara;Timothy E. Peterson;David G. Harrison

  • Role of the T cell in the genesis of angiotensin II–induced hypertension and vascular dysfunction

    Tomasz J. Guzik;Nyssa E. Hoch;Kathryn A. Brown;Louise A. McCann

  • Oxidation of tetrahydrobiopterin leads to uncoupling of endothelial cell nitric oxide synthase in hypertension

    Ulf Landmesser;Sergey Dikalov;S. Russ Price;Louise McCann

  • Does visual interpretation of the coronary arteriogram predict the physiologic importance of a coronary stenosis

    Carl W. White;Creighton B. Wright;Donald B. Doty;Loren F. Hiratza

  • Role of oxidative stress in atherosclerosis

    David Harrison;Kathy K Griendling;Ulf Landmesser;Burkhard Hornig

  • Reactive oxygen species produced by macrophage-derived foam cells regulate the activity of vascular matrix metalloproteinases in vitro. Implications for atherosclerotic plaque stability.

    Sanjay Rajagopalan;Xiao Ping Meng;Santhini Ramasamy;David G. Harrison

  • Mechanisms Underlying Endothelial Dysfunction in Diabetes Mellitus

    Ulrich Hink;Huige Li;Hanke Mollnau;Mathias Oelze

  • Cellular and molecular mechanisms of endothelial cell dysfunction.

    David G. Harrison

  • Vasorelaxant properties of the endothelium-derived relaxing factor more closely resemble S-nitrosocysteine than nitric oxide

    Paul R. Myers;Robert L. Minor;Ricardo Guerra;James N. Bates

  • Role of Superoxide in Angiotensin II–Induced but Not Catecholamine-Induced Hypertension

    Jørn Bech Laursen;Sanjay Rajagopalan;Zorina Galis;Margaret Tarpey

  • Interactions between NO and reactive oxygen species: pathophysiological importance in atherosclerosis, hypertension, diabetes and heart failure

    Georg Kojda;David Harrison

  • Inflammation, Immunity, and Hypertension

    David G. Harrison;Tomasz J. Guzik;Heinrich E. Lob;Meena S. Madhur

  • Molecular cloning and characterization of the constitutive bovine aortic endothelial cell nitric oxide synthase.

    K.'I. Nishida;D. G. Harrison;J. P. Navas;A. A. Fisher

  • Increased NADH-Oxidase–Mediated Superoxide Production in the Early Stages of Atherosclerosis Evidence for Involvement of the Renin-Angiotensin System

    Ascan Warnholtz;Georg Nickenig;Eberhard Schulz;Roland Macharzina

  • Endothelial Regulation of Vasomotion in ApoE-Deficient Mice: Implications for Interactions Between Peroxynitrite and Tetrahydrobiopterin

    Jørn Bech Laursen;Mark Somers;Sabine Kurz;Louise McCann

  • A trace-driven analysis of the UNIX 4.2 BSD file system

    John K. Ousterhout;Hervé Da Costa;David Harrison;John A. Kunze

  • The vascular NAD(P)H oxidases as therapeutic targets in cardiovascular diseases

    Hua Cai;Kathy K Griendling;David G Harrison

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergey Dikalov
Sergey Dikalov Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Tomasz J. Guzik
Tomasz J. Guzik University of Glasgow
Kathy K. Griendling
Kathy K. Griendling Emory University
Tohru Fukai
Tohru Fukai Veterans Health Administration
Cornelia M. Weyand
Cornelia M. Weyand Stanford University
Hanjoong Jo
Hanjoong Jo Emory University
Thomas Münzel
Thomas Münzel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Melvin L. Marcus
Melvin L. Marcus University of Iowa
Samuel C. Dudley
Samuel C. Dudley University of Minnesota
Kenneth E. Bernstein
Kenneth E. Bernstein Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

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