Lawrence Schramm is a professor emeritus of biomedical engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Schramm’s Central Autonomic Regulation Laboratory studied derangements in blood pressure regulation after a spinal cord injury. Many of these derangements are caused by failure of the spinal cord to appropriately process the input it receives from receptors in the muscles, skin, and internal organs.
To fully engage in this research, he began working collaboratively with several laboratories in the Department of Neuroscience—combining his expertise in spinal cord anatomy and physiology with their expertise in cellular and molecular biology.
He earned his PhD in physiology from the University of Rochester in 1970.