Ja Mehta, M.D., Ph.D.
Mehta is a professor of internal medicine and physiology/biophysics in the College of Medicine and holds the Howard and Elsie Stebbins Chair in cardiology. He serves on several major journal editorial boards and is a member of many prestigious academic societies including the American Society for Clinical Investigation and Association of American Physicians. He is internationally recognized for his groundbreaking research related to blood clotting and heart attacks. His findings in the 1970s on the role of blood platelets helped lead to new anti-clotting drugs.
More recently, his laboratory has been working on a potential gene therapy for atherosclerosis, the disease known for causing arteries to clog.
In 2004, the UAMS Mehta/Stebbins Chair in Cardiovascular Research was established in his honor.
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