Congratulations to Diabetes Research Center member Dr. Curt Sigmund on being voted on by members to serve as the new Chair-Elect of AHA Council on Hypertension. Dr. Sigmund is currently the Roy J. Carver Chair of Hypertension Research and Chair and DEO of the Department of Pharmacology in the Carver College of Medicine. He is also the founding director of the UIHC Center for Hypertension Research.