Tammy Dugas is a professor in the Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine. She has served as the head of the Comparative Biomedical Sciences department since March 1, 2020. She joined the faculty of LSU Vet Med on September 1, 2014. Dugas received her BS in biochemistry and her PhD in chemistry from LSU in 1992 and 1996, respectively. She completed post-doctoral fellowships at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1998, and at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, in 2001. Her first faculty position was at the LSU Health Science Center Shreveport.
Dugas is active in the Society of Toxicology and served as president of the Cardiovascular Toxicology Specialty Section from 2016-2017. Her research focus is on cardiovascular pharmacology and toxicology. She is developing new drug-coated medical devices to clear blocked arteries and is investigating how environmental exposures initiate the progression of cardiovascular diseases. She has received grants from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute totaling more than 1,884,586 to elucidate the role of air pollution in promoting cardiovascular disease. She is also co-Principal Investigator on an $11.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) program that established the Center for Lung Biology and Disease [citation].
Dugas is also a leader in the LSU Superfund Research Program, specifically in the Oxidative Stress Core and Training Core [citation]. She has received the 2016 Distinguished Research Scholar Award from the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine and was an invited professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2015[1].