Dr. Joseph Francis, Professor, Comparative Biomedical Sciences (CBS).  He earned his BS and MS degrees in Veterinary Sciences from Madras Veterinary College in Madras, India, before obtaining his Ph.D. from Kansas State University. 

He is an Assistant Professor in the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,  where his research focuses on mechanisms of doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity.

Francis is a professor in the Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences and has been at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine since 2003.

Dr. Francis received the Arthur Guyton Young Investigator Award in 2009, and the Dean’s Teacher Merit Honor Roll in 2012 and 2015. Francis’ research focuses on inflammation in relation to human diseases, using animal models to gain a better understanding of chronic diseases such as heart failure, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Francis has been awarded over $10 million dollars in grant funding during his 18 years at LSU from a variety of funding organizations including the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Defense, the American Heart Association, and the US High Bush Blueberry Council.

 

He is also working as Principal Investigator of Center for Pre-Clinical Cancer Research, Louisiana

Center for Pre-Clinical Cancer Research – Rhonda Cardin (grantome.com)

Dr. Joseph Francis- LSU SVM Faculty