Throughout my career, I have focused on the physiological underpinnings of the etiology and treatment of high blood pressure (i.e. hypertension). While hypertension is a multi-faceted disease, I have focused my research primarily on neural (brain) and renal (kidney) contributions to the development and maintenance of hypertension. This was motivated, in part, by recent reports that it is now possible to perform targeted nerve ablation of renal nerves in humans, which mitigates or even reverses drug-resistant hypertension. Unfortunately, the mechanisms mediating these beneficial effects are unclear. Thus, our studies aim to elucidate the detailed mechanisms of renal nerves in hypertension to provide a translational platform for development and refinement of emerging antihypertensive therapies. https://physiology.arizona.edu/lab-page/banek-lab https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=banek%20ct