EDUCATION:

• B.S., Zoology, San Diego Sate University, 1972
• M.S., Biology, San Diego State University, 1974
• Ph.D. Program, University of California, 1976
• Ph.D., Physiology, University of Arizona, 1984

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT:

• Instructor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Tennessee, Memphis
• Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
• Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
• Assistant Professor, Graduate Faculty, Kent State University
• Associate Professor, Graduate Faculty, Kent State University

HONORS:

• Dean's Honor List, San Diego State University
• BS Degree with Distinction in Zoology, San Diego State University
• University of California Regents' Research Grant
• U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) - Associate Western Universities (AWU) Laboratory Graduate Fellowship
• National Institutes of Health - National Research Service Award - Predoctoral Traineeship (Institutional, University of Arizona, HL-079249)
• University of Arizona Graduate Program Development Grant
• University of Arizona Graduate Academic Scholarship
• Sigma Xi Graduate Travel Scholarship
• Outstanding Dissertation Award, University of Arizona
• National Institutes of Health - National Research Service Award - Postdoctoral Traineeship (Institutional, University of Tennessee, HL - 07339)
• National Institutes of Health - National Research Service Award - Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (HL-07338, Heart-Lung Institute)
• Basic Sciences Faculty Representative to Institutional Academic Council, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
• Chairman, Basic Sciences Faculty Meeting, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine

FUNDED RESEARCH (within last year):

• Sex Dimorphism in Vascular Function: Humoral Mechanisms (National Institutes of Health, $349,065)
• Sexual Dimorphism in Vascular Function: Role of Calcium Channels in Normotension and Hypertension (Astra-Merck Pharmaceuticals/ Canton Medical Education Foundation, $70,000)
• Testosterone-Induced Vasorelaxation: Nongenomic Mechanisms in Vascular Smooth Muscle and Endothelium (State of Ohio, $40,000)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• American Physiological Society
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Council for High Blood Pressure Research, American Heart Association
• Council on Circulation, American Heart Association
• Ohio Physiological Society
• The Microcirculatory Society

SELECTED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS (last 6 years):

• Stallone, J.N. Role of endothelium in sexual dimorphism in vasopressin-induced contraction of rat aorta. Amer. J. Physiol. 265 (Heart Circ. Physiol. 34): H2073-H2080, 1993.
• Stallone, J.N. Sex differences in nitric oxide-mediated attenution of vascular reactivity to vasopressin are abolished by gonadectomy. Eur. J. Pharmacol. 259: 273-283, 1994.
• Stallone, J.N. Sex Differences in mesenteric vascular responses to vasopressin during development of DOCA-salt hypertension in rats. Amer. J. Physiol. 268 (Reg. Integ. Comp. Physiol. 37): R40-R49, 1995.
• Costarella, C.E., J.N. Stallone, C.W. Rutecki, and F.C. Whittier. Testosterone causes direct relaxation of rat thoracic aorta. J Pharmacol. Exp. Therap. 277: 34-39, 1996.
• Chao, J., J.N. Stallone, Y. Liang, and L. Chao. Kallistatin is a potent new vasodilator. J. Clin. Invest. 100(1): 11-17, 1997.