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Dr. Unlap received his PhD in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology from Kansas State University followed by postdoctoral trainings in Oncology and Behavioral Neurobiology under Drs. Andrew Kraft and Richard Jope at the University of Alabama at Birmingham studying the roles that immediate early genes play in the pathogenesis of malignancy and neuronal degeneration, respectively. Dr. Unlap was given a faculty appointment in the Department of Medicine at UAB where he began to study the role that the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger might play in the pathogenesis of salt-sensitive hypertension.