1980s - Simons

Michael Simons, M.D. ’84, HS ’87, has been appointed the Anna Gundlach Huber Professor of Medicine and chief of the Section of Cardiology at Dartmouth Medical School. He moved to Dartmouth from Harvard Medical School, where he was an associate professor of medicine and director of the Angiogenesis Research Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Simons transported his entire lab northward, including almost 20 researchers and $2 million a year in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association and industry sources. His research in angiogenesis focuses on the use of a growth factor called PR39 to stimulate blood vessel growth.