In December 2024, seven Internal Medicine pre- and postdoctoral researchers were honored with American Heart Association (AHA) fellowship awards. Our story about the five other AHA award recipients can be found here. We regret the omission of the following two award winners and are pleased to share their stories here. In last year’s AHA award […]
Arul Mani, PhD, research assistant professor in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, received a three-year, $231,000 career development award from the American Heart Association (AHA) for his project, microRNA-6236 regulation of post-ischemic skeletal muscle angiogenesis. Mani’s research interest is in peripheral artery disease (PAD), a narrowing of vessels that carry blood from the heart […]
In spring 2023, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Neuroscience and Pharmacology, Frank Faraci, PhD, and Professor of Neurology and Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Eng Lo, PhD, sat down with Editor-in-Chief of the American Heart Association (AHA) Journal Circulation Research, Jane E. Freedman, MD, to discuss a possible new compendium for the journal. Now, a […]
Azaj Ahmed, MSc, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Sanjana Dayal, PhD, FAHA, has received a two-year, $147,292 American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowship award to pursue his research. He is studying mechanisms of obesity and prediabetes-induced thrombosis using mouse models and clinical samples for his project, in which he is investigating how […]
This year at the annual International Stroke Conference (ISC), two oral presentations, one a plenary session, delivered ground-breaking science from postdoctoral fellows Rakeshkumar Patel, PhD, and Mariia Kumskova, MD. Both are members of Hematology, Oncology, and Blood and Marrow Transplantation Professor Anil Chauhan, PhD’s lab. During the conference’s Main Event, Patel presented his most recent […]
Qian Shi, PhD, research assistant professor in Endocrinology and Metabolism, received a three-year, $231,000 American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award (CDA). With this funding, Shi will explore the protective role of endogenous insulin receptor substrate protein 2 (IRS2) in the heart. Insulin receptor substrate proteins mediate insulin signaling in the heart. IRS1 and ISR2 […]
Dao-Fu Dai, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Pathology and Radiation Oncology, received a three-year, $231,000 Career Development Award from the American Heart Association. Dai will investigate how cystic fibrosis (CF) affects heart rhythm disorder. Although his primary appointment is in a different department, Dai will work under the mentorship of E. Dale Abel, MD, PhD; […]
Yuan Zhang, PhD, associate in Endocrinology and Metabolism, received a three-year, $231,000 Career Development Award from the American Heart Association. Zhang’s project, “2-Hydroxyglutate mediates cardiac remodeling induced by mitochondrial stress,” seeks to understand how cardiac metabolism affects heart function. Zhang is a member of the Abel Laboratory. This is the second of three AHA CDAs […]
Karima Ait-Aissa, PhD, assistant research professor in Cardiovascular Medicine, received a three-year, $231,000 Career Development Award from the American Heart Association (AHA). A member of the lab of Isabella Grumbach, MD, PhD, Ait-Aissa plans to examine the mechanisms that lead to radiation-induced blood-brain barrier damage, a major contributor of cognitive dysfunction. “As a young investigator, […]
Ryan Boudreau, PhD, associate professor in Cardiovascular Medicine, received a two-year $200,000 Innovative Project Award (IPA) from the American Heart Association. The project aims to improve methods for examining gene expression changes in heart disease, and the work will largely be spearheaded by Jared McLendon, PhD, a senior post-doctoral research fellow in the Boudreau Lab […]