Thomas E. Sharp, III
Thomas E. Sharp, III
Thomas E. Sharp III, Ph.D.
Tom is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology at USF Morsani College of Medicine and faculty with the USF Health, Heart Institute in Tampa, Florida, USA.
Tom received his doctorate from Temple University, Lewis Katz School of Medicine where he was an AHA-funded predoctoral fellow, publishing works on translational application of cell-based and pharmaceutical-based therapies to combat ischemic heart failure in preclinical models in the laboratory of Dr. Steven R. Houser. Tom continued his training in the laboratory of Dr. David J. Lefer, at LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans as an AHA-funded postdoctoral fellow, where he studied ischemia-reperfusion injury, heart failure and novel therapeutic development for cardiovascular disease, publishing seminal work on renal denervation to treat heart failure in preclinical translational studies.
His research program focuses on elucidating novel mechanistic insights and therapeutic targets in a multi-organ approach for cardiometabolic disease and heart failure with an emphasis on HFpEF.