Additional Contact Information:

Department of Biomedical Sciences
James H. Quillen College of Medicine
P.O. Box 70582
Office: Building178, Room B138

Research/Teaching Interest:

My expertise in integrative neuroscience aimed at finding treatments and cures for neurological disorders. My work has focused on long term neuronal plasticity, specifically in the context of pathological injury within the central nervous system. My recent work has focused on neuronal interactions that occur among the central and peripheral neural networks playing a major role in controlling cardiac functions. Imbalances within this control system are associated with heart disease and have deleterious consequences, including the progression into heart failure. Neuromodulation therapy has emerged as a novel approach to treat such disease processes at their root cause, namely restoring neuronal balance within the nervous system and thereby restoring cardiac function.

Active Research/Funding:

• NIH R01, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (7/2024-6/2028) $2.7M
  • PI: Beaumont, Co-investigator: Gass 
  • Title: Afferent Mechanisms of Vagal Neuromodulation Therapy (renewal)
• LivaNova PLC (6/2017-Present) $600,000 (in kind) 
  • PI: Beaumont
    Equipment to study chronic VNS therapy, including bipolar leads and implantable generators

Dr. Eric Beaumont