Jane Freedman, MD, is the Gladys Parkinson Stahlman Professor of Cardiovascular Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute.
Dr. Freedman has served as the Chair of the National American Heart Association Peer Review Committee and is the current Editor-in-Chief for Circulation Research. She has extensive mentoring experience and has been the previous PI of two T32 Training Grants.
Dr. Freedman's major research interests include: 1. Thrombosis, Inflammation, and Cardiovascular Disease 2. Immunity and Thrombosis 3. The Role of Gene Expression in Precision Medicine 4. Extracellular and Noncoding RNAs in Disease 5. Proteomics and Cardiovascular Disease.
She currently oversees two research programs; the first is a basic science laboratory that examines the role of immunity, infection, and inflammation on atherothrombotic disease. The second facility uses high-throughput, nano-chip, and RNA-seq technologies to study gene expression and provide large scale transcriptomic and proteomic translational data for a wide range of clinical and translational projects.