Career
Doctor Campbell, who is on the faculty at the Roy J. And Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa, is internationally recognized for his contributions to muscular dystrophy research. His discoveries of genetic and molecular causes of many forms of the disease have improved diagnosis of muscular dystrophies and provided a basis for developing new treatments of muscle disease. He received his Bachelor of Surgery degree in physics from Manhattan College in 1971, his master"s degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and his Doctor of Philosophy in Biophysics from the Department of Radiation Biology and Biophysics at the University of Rochester.
He did postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Doctor David MacLennan at the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, before moving to Iowa in 1981.
