Background
Stimers, Joseph Robert was born on April 19, 1954 in Sodus, New York, United States. Son of Robert Eugene and Hazel Ester (Knowlden) Stimers.
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Joseph Robert Stimers
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Joseph Robert Stimers, American Cardiac electrophysiologist, biomedical researcher. Achievements include design and development of a perfusion controller; co-description of permeability and gating properties of Ca channelsin snail neurons; co-solution of Na channel gating kinetics; co-discovery that the Na/K pump has a variable affinity for ouabain which iscontrolled by both internal and external ion concentrations in heartcells.
Education
Bachelor of Science summa cum laude, California State University, Long Beach, 1976; Master of Science, University of Southern California, 1978; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Southern California, 1982.
Career
Research assistant, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1980-1982; postdoctoral fellow, University of California at Los Angeles, 1982-1985; postdoctoral fellow, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1985-1987; research assistant professor, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1987-1989; assistant professor, U. Arkansas Medical Science, Little Rock, since 1989.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Heart Association. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Biophysics Society, Society General Physiologists, New York Academy Sciences.
Connections
Married Jean Elizabeth Braitling, May 26, 1979. Children: James Louis, Elisabeth Marie.
Awards
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Recipient New York State Regents scholarship, 1972-1974. Sigma Xi research grantee, 1978, 79, 80. Grass Foundation fellow, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1982. NIHpostdoctoral fellow, Bethesda, Maryland., 1983-1986, National Institutes of Health First Award, 1990-1995, National Institutes of Health R01 grantee, 1990-1995.Recipient New York State Regents scholarship, 1972-1974. Sigma Xi research grantee, 1978, 79, 80. Grass Foundation fellow, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 1982.
NIHpostdoctoral fellow, Bethesda, Maryland., 1983-1986, National Institutes of Health First Award, 1990-1995, National Institutes of Health R01 grantee, 1990-1995.