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 […]
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, […]