Phillip Greenspan, Ph.D. Associate Professor Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences Office: Room 706, Boyd Graduate Studies Phone: (706) 542-5410 E-mail: greenspn@rx.uga.edu

Biosketch

A.B (Cell Physiology)	Rutgers College	New Brunswick, New Jersey	1973
Ph.D. (Pharmacology)	University of Iowa	Iowa City, Iowa	1979
Postdoctoral Appt.	NIH PD Fellow	Bowman Gray School of Medicine	1979-82
Research Assistant and Associate Professor	Univ. South Carolina	Columbia, S.C.	1982-91
Assistant Professor	University of Georgia	Athens, GA	1992-1997
Associate Professor	University of Georgia	Athens, GA	1997-Present

Research Interests
The cellular accumulation of cholesterol in atherogenesis
The role of oxidation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) in atherogenesis
The antioxidant and biological properties of specific drugs and natural products (nutraceuticals).

Representative Publications
T-M Chou and P. Greenspan, The Effect of Acetaminophen on the Myeloperoxidase-Hydrogen Peroxide-Nitrite Oxidation of LDL, Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 2002, 1581, 57-63.

B-H Ryu, J.W. Jeong , R.L. Gutman and P. Greenspan, Antioxidative Activity for Human Low Density Lipoprotein Oxidation by a Novel Compound Purified from Marine Microbial Origin, J. Marine Biotech., 1998, 6, 244-248.

H. Yu, R.L. Gutman , B-H Ryu and P. Greenspan, Cholesteryl Esterase-Treated LDL Augments Oxidized LDL-Mediated Cholesteryl Ester Deposition in Mouse Peritoneal Macrophages, Atherosclerosis, 1998, 140, 35- 43.

P. Greenspan, H. Yu , F. Mao and R.L. Gutman. Cholesterol Deposition in Macrophages: Foam Cell Formation Mediated by Cholesterol-Enriched Oxidized Low Density Lipoprotein, J. Lipid Res., 1997, 38, 101-109.