Estelle Grover was born in 1919 in Mississippi, the second of five children. Grover was the only one from her siblings to obtain a college education. She graduated with a Master’s Degree in English Literature at the University of Alabama. It was on that campus that she met Robert Grover. At that time Robert Grover was in his first of three years in the US Army. They fell in love, became engaged, and married eleven months later. Only three months later, Robert was sent overseas for 18 months. During that time Estelle worked on the Manhattan Project that created the atom bomb. Estelle and Robert had a wonderful marriage lasting 46 years. Estelle passed away in 1990 due to a developing brain tumor.
“I honestly believe she saved my life” – Robert Grover
Estelle Grover Past Lecturers
1992 - John A Bevan MD
Pressure and flow-induced alterations in ion flux: a mechanism for the control of vascular tone
1994 - Edward R Block MD
Interaction of hypoxia, oxygen and nitrogen-derived radicals as causes of pulmonary endothelial cell injury
1996 - Timothy W Evans MD
Pulmonary vascular control mechanisms in ARDS
1998 - John T Reeves MD
The pulmonary circulation in transition
2000 - Wiltz W Wagner PhD
Leukocyte and erythrocyte kinetics in the pulmonary microcirculation
2002 - E Kenneth Weir MD
Redox signaling in hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction
2004 - Norbert F Voelkel MD
Severe angioproliferative pulmonary hypertension: the cancer concept
2006 - Barry Fanburg MD
Rho GTPases in serotonin-induced proliferation of pulmonary vascular smooth muscle
2008 - Margaret R MacLean PhD
The serotonin hypothesis of pulmonary hypertension revisited
2011 - Jason X.J. Yuan, MD, PhD
A Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism in the TRPC6 Gene Promoter Associated with Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
2013 - Lorna G. Moore, PhD
High Altitude Physiology in Neonates and the Impact of High Altitude Pulmonary Hypertension on Evolutionary Patterns
2015 - Stephen L. Archer, MD
The Mitochondria in Pulmonary Vascular Disease
2017 - Serpil Erzurum, MD
Endothelial Mechanisms in the Right Ventricular Dysfunction of PH
2019 - Larissa A. Shimoda, PhD
Hypoxia Inducible Factors in the developing lung circulation and its response to injury and repair