Dr. John Osborn received his PhD in 1986 from the Medical College of Wisconsin where he studied the neural-cardiovascular actions of vasopressin under the mentorship of Dr. Allen Cowley, Jr. He then went on to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for a post-doctoral fellowship in Biomedical Engineering where he studied spinal level control of sympathetic activity in the laboratory to Dr. Lawrence Schramm. In 1988 Dr. Osborn took a faculty position at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Osborn has studied the relationship between the autonomic nervous system and cardiovascular function his entire career. His early studies focused on the role of central nervous system pathways and hypertension. More recently he has shifted his focus to understanding the role of peripheral organ specific innervation in the pathogenesis of cardiometabolic diseases with the goal of developing novel neuromodulation therapies for treatment of disease. He is the Director of the Minnesota Consortium for Autonomic Neuromodulation.