Francis Hughes, Jr., PhD

Assistant Professor
Duke University Medical Center

Dr. Francis "Monty" Hughes, Jr. (Ph.D.) is currently an Assistant Professor at Duke University Medical Center working within the Department of Surgery and Division of Urology. He serves as the Director of the Urinary Dysfunction Laboratory which studies the role of inflammation in benign urology disorders such as bladder outlet obstruction and diabetic bladder dysfunction. In association with Dr. J Todd Purves, this lab has been instrumental in demonstrating the central importance of the NLRP3 inflammasome in sensing the biochemical stressors associated with these disorders and translating them into an inflammatory signal. This signal is ultimately responsible for changes in voiding function, denervation and fibrosis. Dr. Hughes received his Ph.D. from the Medical University of South Carolina and was a post doc at both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NIH. He then joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he rose to an Associate Professor (with tenure). Following a brief stint as the director of the biology division of a start-up pharmaceutical company, he joined forces with Dr. Purves at the Medical University of South Carolina to begin this lab. Dr. Hughes has been at Duke since 2015.

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Presentation(s):

• MP07-06: Specialized pro-resolution mediators in the bladder: receptor expression and recovery of bladder function from cystitis

  Friday, May 13, 2022
  10:30 AM – 11:45 AM