Heddwen Brooks received her PhD from Imperial College, University of London and is a Professor in the Departments of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Arizona (UA). Dr Brooks is a renal physiologist and is best known for her development of microarray technology to address in vivo signaling pathways involved in the hormonal regulation of renal function. Dr Brooks’ many awards include the American Physiological Society (APS) Lazaro J. Mandel Young Investigator Award, which is for an individual demonstrating outstanding promise in epithelial or renal physiology. In 2009, Dr Brooks received the APS Renal Young Investigator Award at the annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Dr Brooks served as Chair of the APS Renal Section (2011–2014) and currently serves as Associate Editor for the American Journal of Physiology- Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology and on the Editorial Board for the American Journal of Physiology-Renal
Physiology (since 2001). Dr Brooks has served on study sections of the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association and recently was a member of the Nephrology Merit Review Board for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs.