Gary W. Hoyle will join the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences as a professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and University Scholar on August 1, 2007. 

Dr. Hoyle was previously a faculty member in Tulane University’s Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary Disease, Critical Care and Environmental Medicine. 

Dr. Hoyle’s research interests focus on mechanisms of lung injury and inflammation, including the regulation of lung injury and repair by G proteins, the role of sensory nerves and nerve growth factor in environmental and occupational lung disease, and the control of DNA damage and repair by sensory neuropeptide receptors.

He has more than 12 years of uninterrupted extramural federal funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Defense.  He was recently awarded a $1.3M grant from the NIH to study novel therapies for chlorine gas exposure.  This research will continue at the University of Louisville. 

Dr. Hoyle received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Duke University, and completed post-doctoral fellowship training at the University of Pennsylvania.