Advisory Board
 Dr. Karl Anderson
Dr. Karl Anderson is the Associate
Director of the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) of the
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas.
He has further developed the GCRC's training curriculum in clinical
investigation, including the development of the course Methods
in Clinical Investigation.
Dr. Anderson is also Director of the Division of Human Nutrition
in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health,
is a Sponsor of the Division of Gastroenterology in the Department
of Internal Medicine, and has a joint appointment in the Department
of Pharmacology and Toxicology. In addition, Dr. Anderson is considered
one of the top porphyria experts in the world.
He attended the College of Wooster in Ohio and Johns Hopkins
University (B.A. '62, M.D. '65) and trained in Internal Medicine
at Vanderbilt University and New York Hospital-Cornell Medical
Center, and in Gastroenterology at Cornell. He is board certified
in both Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. Dr. Anderson spent
2 years of duty in the Navy doing research on hepatitis B and other
tropical diseases in Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines. Before
coming to UTMB in 1987 he was on the faculty at Cornell, Rockefeller
University and New York Medical College.
His research interests include the effects of diet on drug and
hormone metabolism, the human porphyrias and drug metabolism in
cirrhosis. Studies underway include new treatments for porphyrias
with heme arginate, GnRH analogues and erythropoietin, and the
roles of vitamin C and hepatitis C in porphyria cutanea tarda.
Recent and current sources of grant support include the U.S. FDA
Office of Orphan Product Development, NIH, the American Porphyria
Foundation and also from industry for investigator-initiated studies.
He has been an active GCRC user during training and while on the
faculty at Cornell, Rockefeller and UTMB.
|
