Vice President of Research Appointed at Henry Ford Health System
DETROIT - Margot LaPointe, Ph.D., has been promoted from director to vice president of Research for Henry Ford Hospital and Health System.
Henry Ford receives more than $60 million in annual funding from internal and outside sources, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other governmental sources, businesses and private foundations. HFHS ranks in the top 6 percent of all institutions granted funding by the NIH and the U.S. Public Health Service.
In her new role, Dr. LaPointe will oversee the Research Office; intellectual property and technology transfer; strategic planning for research enterprise; salaries and career development of full-time research scientific staff; allocation of research space; development of Henry Ford-wide policies for the conduct of research and conflict of Interest for research-related activities
Dr. LaPointe joined Henry Ford Hospital as a staff scientist in the Hypertension and Vascular Research Division. She's been funded since 1992 by the National Institutes of Health as a project investigator in the Program Project Grant Vasoactive Autacoids in Blood Pressure Regulation. She was promoted to director of research in 2004.
In addition to her activities at Henry Ford, she is a professor in the Department of Physiology and Assistant Dean for Research at Wayne State University School of Medicine.
She is a member of the editorial boards for Hypertension and American Journal of Physiology - Heart.
Dr. LaPointe received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of New Orleans and her doctorate in zoology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She did postdoctoral work at Louisiana State University Medical Center and the University of California at San Francisco.
