Perry J. Blackshear

Heart Failure & Transplant

National Institutes of Health

About

Perry J. Blackshear works in Heart Failure & Transplant affiliated with National Institutes of Health.

Perry J. Blackshear served as a Senior Investigator in the Signal Transduction Laboratory at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences until his retirement in 2025 and holds an adjunct professorship in the Department of Medicine at Duke University. His research focused on post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression, including the role of CCCH zinc finger proteins in mRNA stability and their implications in inflammatory diseases and cardiomyopathy. He previously held positions at Duke University and Harvard Medical School.

Research focus

Peripartum CardiomyopathyInflammatory Mechanisms in Heart FailureRNA-Binding Proteins in Cardiac DiseasemRNA Stability Regulation in CardiomyopathyPost-Transcriptional Gene Expression in Heart Disease

Impact

429 pubs · 27,166 cites · h-index 93

Training

MD
Harvard Medical School
1977
DPhil
University of Oxford
1974

Affiliations

Work Experience

Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine

Duke University · 1997 - Present

Senior Investigator

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · 1997 - 2025

Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry

Duke University · 1984 - 1997

Investigator

Howard Hughes Medical Institute · 1984 - 1997

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Harvard Medical School · 1980 - 1984