James M. Anderson is an American Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology and is a Chief of Section of Digestive Diseases at the

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. Anderson is also a director of the

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at the

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Education

Anderson received his B.S. in Biology from

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in 1974 and five years later got a Ph.D. from

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in the same field. He holds an M.D. from

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which he obtained in 1983.

Career

In 2002, Anderson became a professor and Chair of the Department of Cell and Molecular Physiology in the School of Medicine at the

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. In this capacity, he served on the advisory group for the UNC Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) program. In September 2010, Anderson was appointed by

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as the director of the

. Anderson has clinical experience in Internal Medicine and Hepatology and is considered among the top authorities in the world in his primary research field of

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and

paracellular transport Paracellular transport refers to the transfer of substances across an epithelium by passing through the intercellular space ''between'' the cells. It is in contrast to transcellular transport, where the substances travel ''through'' the cell, pas ...

.NIH Deputy Directors
Retrieved February 21, 2019. Anderson researches the paracellular barrier in a laboratory located in the intramural research program of the

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is the third largest Institute of the National Institutes of Health, located in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. It is tasked with allocating about $3.6 billion in FY 2020 in tax revenue t ...

. He has been a principal investigator on NIH

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for almost twenty years. He has authored or co-authored over 180 scientific articles, reviews, and book chapters. In 2018 he helped fund the invention of the Human Biomolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP).

Awards and honors

Anderson is an elected Fellow of the

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and is an elected member of the

American Society for Clinical Investigation The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), established in 1908, is one of the oldest and most respected medical honor societies in the United States. Organization and purpose The ASCI is an honorary society to which more than 2,800 p ...

and the

Association of American Physicians The Association of American Physicians (AAP) is an honorary medical society founded in 1885 by the Canadian physician Sir William Osler and six other distinguished physicians of his era for "the advancement of scientific and practical medicine ...

. Anderson has received several awards including the 2007 Takeda Distinguished Research Award and the

Walter B. Cannon Walter Bradford Cannon (October 19, 1871 – October 1, 1945) was an American physiologist, professor and chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School. He coined the term " fight or flight response", and developed the theory ...

Award, the most prestigious award bestowed by the

American Physiological Society The American Physiological Society is a non-profit professional society for physiologists. It has nearly 10,000 members, most of whom hold doctoral degrees in medicine, physiology, or other health professions. Its mission is to support research ...

.Winner of the APS Walter B. Canon Award
Retrieved February 21, 2019.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, James M. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) National Institutes of Health people Yale College alumni Harvard Medical School alumni Yale School of Medicine faculty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty Fellows of the American Gastroenterological Association Members of the National Academy of Medicine