Dr. Valerie Anne Galton has served for many years on peer review boards for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
LEBANON, NH, April 01, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Valerie Anne Galton, Ph.D., with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. Galton celebrates many years of experience in her professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Galton received a B.Sc degree (first class) in Physiology in 1955 and a Ph.D in Biochemistry in 1958, both from the University of London. She then relocated to the US and spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University Medical School's Thorndike Memorial laboratory in the Boston City Hospital. She joined the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School in 1961. Dr Galton is a Professor of Physiology and Neurobiology, Emerita (active), at Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine in Hanover, NH. For more than fifty years she has taught courses to both medical and graduate students, including Medical Physiology and Advanced Systems Biology. She was an active member of the Physiology Graduate Program and later the Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine (PEMM). PEMM faculty members come from several departments and their expertise enriches the program through teaching, mentoring or serving on committees.
Dr. Galton has spent more than sixty years investigating the mechanism of action of the thyroid hormones, and her major focus has been on the three enzymes (deiodinases) that activate and inactivate the thyroid hormones. Her group cloned two of them and, in order to investigate their specific roles in in vivo, created mice deficient in one, two or all three of these deiodinases. This allowed her to study the pre-receptor regulation of thyroid hormone action in the body in general and in developing brain in particular. The brain is critically dependent on the appropriate cellular content of thyroid hormone for normal development. Currently she is testing the hypothesis that thyroxine is more than the pro-hormone that needs to be converted to its active derivative 3,5,3'-triiodothyronine in order to exert an action. Her research has been supported by grants from the NIH from 1962 until 2017 and has been published in a number of scientific journals.
Dr. Galton has served for many years on peer review boards for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and has been on the editorial board or served as an ad hoc reviewer for a number of scientific journals, including Endocrinology and the American Journal of Physiology. She has been an active member of the American Thyroid Association and the Endocrine Society since the 1960s, Dr. Galton is also a recognized Marquis listee, having been featured in numerous editions of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who of American Women.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to her profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Valerie Anne Galton, PhD, has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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