User:William C. Aird

Dr. Aird received his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1985. After completing his internal medicine and chief medical residency at the University of Toronto, he undertook a Hematology fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Aird received his postdoctoral training in Robert Rosenberg’s laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1996, he established an independent research program in the Division of Molecular Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Dr. Aird is currently Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He serves as Chief, Division of Molecular and Vascular Medicine and Director, Center for Vascular Biology Research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His major research contributions have included the molecular characterization of endothelial cell heterogeneity, the elucidation of the regulatory mechanisms underlying vascular bed-specific gene expression, and the dissection of site-specific signaling pathways in the intact endothelium. Dr. Aird is an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association. He has edited two books, Endothelial Cell Phenotypes in Health and Disease (Marcel Dekker, 2006) and Endothelial Biomedicine (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He is the founding Chair of the biannual Gordon Research Conference on Endothelial Cell Phenotypes in Health and Disease. Dr. Aird is a chartered member of the Vascular Cell and Molecular Biology study section at the NIH, and is a member of the editorial board of several journals including Circulation Research, ATVB, Endothelium, Physiological Genomics and J Mol and Cell Cardiology.