Jared McLendon, PhD, associate in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, has received a three-year, $231,000 American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award. In previous years, McLendon has earned an Alzheimer’s Association Research Foundation Award and an AHA postdoctoral fellowship award. With this new funding, McLendon will continue his work examining the Sorbs2 gene, which he […]
Gourav Bhardwaj, MSc, PhD, research assistant professor in Endocrinology and Metabolism, received a three-year, $231,000 American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award (CDA) for the project titled: Role of FoxO3 in Ca2+ handling and diastolic dysfunction in diabetic cardiomyopathy. Bhardwaj joined the department late last year. He received his PhD in Functional Genomics from the […]
Jin-Young Yoon, PhD, research assistant professor in Cardiovascular Medicine, received a three-year, $231,000 American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award (CDA). With this funding, Yoon will explore the protective role of SIRTUIN5 in the heart. SIRT5 is a member of Sirtuins (SIRTs), a family of NAD+-dependent protein deACYLases. SIRT5 has been reported to affect cardiac […]
Ravinder Reddy Gaddam, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Vikram Lab, received a three-year, $231,000 Career Development Award from the American Heart Association (AHA). Gaddam’s application was in < 1 percentile. He previously earned AHA Postdoctoral Fellowships in 2018 and 2021. With this new AHA funding, Gaddam will uncover the therapeutic potential of novel […]
Gagan Flora, PhD, a postdoctoral research scholar in the lab of Anil Chauhan, PhD, received a two-year, $140,952 American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowship for his project “Role of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinases in regulating platelet function and thrombosis.” This is the latest in a string of postdoctoral fellowships and career development awards received by researchers […]
Ravinder Reddy Gaddam, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the Vikram Lab, received his second American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. Gaddam plans to determine the role of microRNA-122 in the development of endothelial dysfunction and non-dipping hypertension—blood pressure that does not “dip” during sleep—during diabetes. Gaddam’s primary sponsor, Ajit Vikram, PhD, assistant professor in Cardiovascular Medicine, […]
Nirav Dhanesha, PhD, research assistant professor in Hematology, Oncology and Blood & Marrow Transplantation, qualified as a finalist for the American Heart Association’s (AHA’s) Kenneth M. Brinkhous Early Career Investigator Prize in Thrombosis. As one of the four finalists, the AHA recognized Dhanesha, a member of the Chauhan Lab, as one of the young investigators […]
Tyler Rasmussen, MD, PhD, Cardiology fellow, received the American Heart Association’s Young Investigator Database Seed Grant to research in-hospital cardiac arrests in Medicare recipients. This grant provides Rasmussen access to the Get with the Guidelines (GWTG) database, a cardiovascular health database partially focused on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) data. While in-hospital cardiac arrests are common and […]
E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD, will be awarded a four-year $3.8M grant from the American Heart Association (AHA) to investigate mechanisms that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with type 2 diabetes. Abel will oversee a Strategically Focused Research Network (SFRN) of three projects in partnership with other UI departments and the Massachusetts […]
Steven R. Lentz, MD, PhD, Hamilton Chair in Hematology and Hematology Section Chief, presented the 2018 Sol Sherry Distinguished Lecture in Thrombosis at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions. In a lecture entitled “Vascular Stress Management: Oxidative Mechanisms in Thrombosis and Stroke,” Dr. Lentz presented an overview of his investigations of reduction oxidation, or […]