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(Circulation Research. 2009;104:1131.)
© 2009 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorials

In Memoriam: Howard Morgan (1927–2009)

Arnold M. Katz, Myron L. Weisfeldt

From the Dartmouth Medical School (A.M.K.), Hanover, NH; and Department of Medicine (M.L.W.), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.

Correspondence to Arnold M. Katz, MD, 1592 New Boston Rd, PO Box 1048, Norwich VT, 05055-1048. E-mail arnold.m.katz@dartmouth.edu

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Howard E. Morgan, who died on March 2, 2009, did as much as anyone to incorporate molecular biology into cardiology and cardiovascular research. His original research helped bring basic science to the bedside, and his superb organizational skills helped physicians use this and other new knowledge to manage patients with cardiovascular disease.

Howard was born in Bloomington, Illinois, on October 8, 1927. After 1 year at Illinois Wesleyan University (1944– 1945), he entered The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he earned his MD degree in 1949. After completing a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Vanderbilt University in 1953, he joined their faculty as Instructor in Obstetrics and Gynecology. However, a growing interest in basic science led him to begin a fellowship with C. R. Park in Physiology at Vanderbilt in 1954. His first article, on the transport of glucose and other sugars across cell membranes, was published in 1956 while he was on active duty in the US Army, serving as Assistant Chief of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Service at Ft Campbell, Kentucky. In 1957, he joined the physiology Department at Vanderbilt where, in 1959, he became Assistant Professor of Physiology and, in 1962, Associate Professor. His research, which at that time focused on the regulation of carbohydrate metabolism in the heart, received a major boost from a year spent in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University, where he studied with P. J. Randle. In the mid-1960s, Howard began a productive collaboration with J. R. Neely, with . . . [Full Text of this Article]