Andrej A. Romanovsky, MD, PhD
Director, Systemic Inflammation Laboratory
Andrej Romanovsky is a Senior Staff Scientist at Barrow working in the areas of systemic inflammation and thermoregulation.
Dr. Romanovsky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He received his MD with Distinction from the Ivan Pavlov First Medical School (St. Petersburg) in 1984, and completed his postgraduate training in pathophysiology at the Pavlov Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (St. Petersburg) in 1986. In 1989, he received a PhD in physiology from the Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences (Minsk, Belarus), and at the age of 29 became the youngest Senior Scientist in the history of that institute. Following postdoctoral training at the University of Tennessee Medical School, Memphis (1991-1994), Dr. Romanovsky took the position of Associate Scientist and Director of the Thermoregulation Laboratory at the Legacy Health System in Portland, Oregon (1994-2000). In December of 1999, he joined Barrow to direct the Systemic Inflammation Laboratory.
Dr. Romanovsky has published more than 80 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including top-tier publications such as PLoS Biology,
PLoS ONE, Blood, Progress in Lipid Research,
The FASEB Journal, and The Journal of Neuroscience. He has served as an Associate Editor, Invited/Guest Editor, and Board Member for eight professional journals. He has served on study sections and reviewed grant applications for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Medical Research Council (UK), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Research Foundation (South Africa), the government of Hong Kong, and other agencies. Since 2004, Dr. Romanovsky has been a member of the Thermal Physiology Section of the International Union of Physiological Sciences. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the State of Arizona, and a number of foundations and pharmaceutical companies.
