Young Investigator Awards

Name Sponsor Award Type Title
Burridge, Paul  American Heart Association Beginning Grant-in-Aid Modeling the role of the genome in chemotherapy induced cardiotoxicity using iPSC
Castano, Victor American Heart Association Undergraduate fellowship Transcriptional genetics of coronary artery disease
Chang, Andrew American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship Elucidating the role of the transcriptional regulator Dach1 during coronary artery development
Chang, Junlei  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship GPR124 regulation of vascular integrity in the adult CNS
Cohen, Harvey  American Heart Association Grant-in-Aid Testing of Vasculitis Microarray Meta-analysis to Identify KD Protein Biomarkers
de Jesus Perez, Vinicio  American Heart Association Beginning Grant-in-Aid Wnt7a as a novel modulator of VEGF signaling in pulmonary hypertension
Du, Yang  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Structural basis of beta2 adrenergic receptor activation of Gi
Foe, Ian  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Using small molecules to study dynamic palmitoylations regulating the Toxoplasma gondii invasion process
Goldstone, Andrew  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Delineating mechanisms of post-infarction angiogenesis through genetic manipulation of stem cell chemokine SDF1-alpha
Govindarajan, Prasanthi  American Heart Association Grant-in-Aid TELECONSULTATION BY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR ACUTE STROKE RECOGNITION: A FEASIBILITY STUDY
Gu, Mingxia  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Using Patient-Specific IPSC Derived Endothelial Cells to Gain New Insights into Pathobiology and Therapy of FPAH and IPA
Karakikes, Ioannis  American Heart Association Beginning Grant-in-Aid Genetic Correction of Phospholamban Mutations in an iPSC-based Disease Model of Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Kiefel, Helena  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Regulation of the anti-thrombotic properties of microvasculature and valvular endothelium by Notch signaling
Kim, Young  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy variants as a cause of cell autonomous atrial fibrillation
Knowles, Joshua  American Heart Association Innovative Research Grant Use of electronic phenotyping and machine learning to identify familial hypercholesterolemia in EHRs
Kodo, Kazuki  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Aberrant TGFb signaling in developing cardiomyocytes as the pathogenesis of LVNC
Lau, Audrey  American Heart Association Beginning Grant-in-Aid Defining the Critical Role of microRNA-181a in the Tolerogenic Potential of Dendritic Cells
Lenihan, Colin  American Heart Association Mentored Clinical and Population Research Program The Comparative Effectiveness of Heart Failure Medications in the Kidney Transplant Population
Lin, Michael  American Heart Association Innovative Research Grant Breaking the Brightness Barrier: Intensely Luminescent Proteins for Tracking Cardiac Stem Cell Survival and Function
Masureel, Matthieu  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Structural basis of arrestin-dependent ß2 adrenergic receptor signaling
Nakayama, Karina  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Nanoscale extracellular matrix alters endothelial function under disturbed flow
Nanda, Vivek  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship The role of CDKN2B in TGFB-dependent SMC recruitment to ischemic blood vessels
Neofytou, Evgenios American Heart Association Grant-in-Aid Understanding myocardial regeneration in an unloaded left ventricle
Ong, Sang Ging  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Modulating the Interaction of Exosomes from Host Myocardium to Transplanted Stem Cells in Ischemic Heart Diseases
Perez, Marco  American Heart Association Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award Genetic Determinants of Atrial Fibrillation in Multiethnic Post-Menopausal Women
Prieto, Martin  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Modulation of physiological activity through ultrasound-induced membrane strain
Pusapati, Venkata Ganesh Varma  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship The role of the EvC complex in hedgehog signaling and heart development
Ribeiro, Alexandre  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Biomechanical mechanisms of single cardiomyocytes as models of cardiac health and disease
Roughley, Matthew  American Heart Association Undergraduate fellowship A Possible Novel Anti-Proliferative Role of the Transcriptional PPARg-p53 Complex in Pulmonary Arterial Smooth Muscle
Sanman, Laura  American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship Chemical Dissection of Inflammasome Formation and Immune Cell Death
Selamet Tierney, Elif Seda American Heart Association Grant-in-Aid On-line intervention to lower cardiovascular risk in pediatric heart transplant patients
Shiran, Hadas American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant Risk Factors for Complications of Inherited Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms
Simsek, Deniz American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Defining the translational landscape of gene regulation and specialized ribosomes during cardiac differentiation
Stary, Creed  American Heart Association Fellow-to-Faculty Transition Award Preserving Mitochondrial Function with microRNA-200c to Improve Stroke Outcome
Terekhova, Ksenia  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Mechanical Roles of Alfa-catenin and Desmoplakin in Cell-cell Adhesions
White, Justin  American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Health Impacts of a Workplace Wellness Program to Promote Physical Activity
Wu, Sean American Heart Association Grant-in-Aid Transcription Factor Interplay at the Nkx2.5 Cardiac Enhancer
Yuan, Ke  American Heart Association Scientist Development Grant Role of Wnt/Beta-catenin signaling in the pathobiology of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Zhang, Angela American Heart Association Undergraduate fellowship Gene Editing to Elucidate PLN R14del Dilated Cardiomyopathy Pathway in Isogenic Derived iPSCs Cardiomyocytes
Adhikari, Arjun Singh Stanford ChEM-H Stanford Internal Fellowship The effect of pediatric specific hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutations on the biomechanics of b-cardiac myosin at the molecular and cellular level 
Burridge, Paul National Institutes of Health K99/R00 Modeling the role of the genome in chemotherapy induced cardiotoxicity using iPSC
Burridge, Paul American Heart Association Beginning Grant-in-Aid Modeling the role of the genome in chemotherapy induced cardiotoxicity using iPSC
Churko, Jared University of Maryland, Baltimore PCBC Jump Start Award Real-time PCR to assess induced pluripotent stem cell pluripotency and differentiation potential
Hendel, Ayal Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Genome editing with engineered nucleases to induce genetic correction of expanded CTG/CAG repeats in the Myotonic dystrophy type 1  
Kim, Juyong Brian American Medical Association Postdoctoral Fellowship Instrumental variable analysis of alcohol use and cardiometabolic risk in the Women's Health Initiative
Li, Guang University of Maryland PCBC Jump Start Award Identification of cardiac lineage-defining epigenome at single cell resolution
Lin, Shin National Institutes of Health K99/R00 Regulatory Elements in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Miller, Clint L. National Institutes of Health K99/R00 Epistatic Regulatory Mechanisms of Coronary Heart Disease Risk
Neofytou, Evgenios American Heart Association  Grant-in-Aid Understanding Myocardial Regeneration in an Unloaded Left Ventricle
Neofytou, Evgenios International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation International Traveling Scholarship Learning in-situ Hybridization in Hamburg to Study the Involvement of miRNAs in Acute Allograft Rejection AFter Heart Translplantation
Qvit, Nir The Burroughs Wellcome Fund US Foundation Targeting leishmania with novel peptides
Xie, Dan National Institutes of Health K99/R00 Complete Phasing of Methylome in Multiple Human Cell Types and Individuals
Rogers, Angela National Institutes of Health K23 Metabolic derangements in ARDS
Bahrami, Hossein National Institutes of Health K23 Inflammation and Risk of Mycardia and Coronary Diseases in HIV Infected Patients
Coronado, Michael National Institutes of Health K99/R00 Beta-Adrenergic Signaling Modulates Mitochondrial Function and Dynamics
Zaman, Raiyan National Institutes of Health K99/R00 A Novel Intravascular CRI-PAT Imaging Systems to Characterize Vulnerable Plaque
Reddy, Sushma National Institutes of Health K08 Non-cardiomyocyte MIR-3a Mediates Susceptibility to Right Heart Failure