About Don W Powell
I am a physician scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Prior to 19991, I was a Professor and NIH Digestive Diseases Center Director at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. With over 40 years of R01-level NIH funding I explored the physiology of electrolyte transport and the the biology of intestinal myofibroblasts (mesenchymal stromal cells) in health and diseases (cancer and inflammatory bowel disease.