Christopher Banek, PhD

Position: Assistant Professor, University of Arizona (USA)

Email: cbanek@arizona.edu

Research Summary:
Throughout my career, I have focused on the physiological underpinnings for the treatment of hypertension. While hypertension is a multi-faceted disease, I have focused my research primarily on neural and renal contributions to the development and maintenance of hypertension. Most recently, we are focused on aberrant renal afferent nerve activity and renal inflammation as a primary driver of hypertension.

Research Funding Grants:
R00HL141650, National Institutes of Health (NHLBI)

Selected Publications:
1.    Banek CT et al. Resting Afferent Renal Nerve Discharge and Renal Inflammation: Elucidating the Role of Afferent and Efferent Renal Nerves in Deoxycorticosterone Acetate Salt Hypertension. Hypertension. 2016.
2.    Banek CT et al. Targeted Afferent Renal Denervation Reduces Arterial Pressure but not Renal Inflammation in Established DOCA-salt Hypertension in the Rat. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2018.
3.    Osborn JW and Banek CT. Catheter-Based Renal Nerve Ablation as a Novel Hypertension Therapy: Lost, and Then Found, in Translation. Hypertension. 2018.
4.    Banek CT et al. Renal Inflammation in DOCA-Salt Hypertension: Role of Renal Nerves and Arterial Pressure. Hypertension. 2019.