Robert Cox is professor emeritus at the

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. He is also emeritus professor of physiology at the

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School of Medicine. Cox earned his B.S. in electrical engineering and his M.S. in biomedical engineering, both from

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, Philadelphia; he earned his PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. His research is focused on how ion channels regulate blood pressure and the electrical signals that drive heartbeat, specifically a type of calcium channel that is present only in arteries. ;Books edited *''Recent Advances in Arterial Diseases: Atherosclerosis, Hypertension and Vasospasm,'' ed. Thomas N. Tulenko and Robert H. Cox (New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc.), 1986. * ''Acute Myocardial Infarction: Emerging Concepts of Pathogenesis and Treatment,'' ed. Robert H. Cox (New York: Praeger), 1989 *''Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms in Hypertension'', ed. Robert H. Cox (New York: Plenum Press), 1989

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