Estelle Grover was born in 1919 in Mississippi, the second of five children. Grover was the only one from her siblings to obtain a college education. She graduated with a Master’s Degree in English Literature at the University of Alabama. It was on that campus that she met Robert Grover. At that time Robert Grover was in his first of three years in the US Army. They fell in love, became engaged, and married eleven months later. Only three months later, Robert was sent overseas for 18 months. During that time Estelle worked on the Manhattan Project that created the atom bomb. Estelle and Robert had a wonderful marriage lasting 46 years. Estelle passed away in 1990 due to a developing brain tumor.

“I honestly believe she saved my life” – Robert Grover

The 2015 Estelle Grover Lecture - Mitochondrial Dyanamics in Pulmonary Hypertension and Cancer

Estelle Grover Past Lecturers

**1992 - John A Bevan MD**
Pressure and flow-induced alterations in ion flux: a mechanism for the control of vascular tone

Edward R Bkock MD — **1994 - Edward R Block MD**
Interaction of hypoxia, oxygen and nitrogen-derived radicals as causes of pulmonary endothelial cell injury

**1996 - Timothy W Evans MD**
Pulmonary vascular control mechanisms in ARDS

**1998 - John T Reeves MD**
The pulmonary circulation in transition

**2000 - Wiltz W Wagner PhD**
Leukocyte and erythrocyte kinetics in the pulmonary microcirculation

**2002 - E Kenneth Weir MD**
Redox signaling in hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction

**2004 - Norbert F Voelkel MD**
Severe angioproliferative pulmonary hypertension: the cancer concept

**2006 - Barry Fanburg MD**
Rho GTPases in serotonin-induced proliferation of pulmonary vascular smooth muscle

**2008 - Margaret R MacLean PhD**
The serotonin hypothesis of pulmonary hypertension revisited

**2011 - Jason X.J. Yuan, MD, PhD**
A Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism in the TRPC6 Gene Promoter Associated with Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

**2013 - Lorna G. Moore, PhD**
High Altitude Physiology in Neonates and the Impact of High Altitude Pulmonary Hypertension on Evolutionary Patterns

**2015 - Stephen L. Archer, MD**
The Mitochondria in Pulmonary Vascular Disease

**2017 - Serpil Erzurum, MD**
Endothelial Mechanisms in the Right Ventricular Dysfunction of PH

**2019 - Larissa A. Shimoda, PhD**
Hypoxia Inducible Factors in the developing lung circulation and its response to injury and repair