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Jeffrey M. Hoeg Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology Award

The award recognizes an established investigator in the prime of his or her career who has made an outstanding contribution to furthering understanding of the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis and/or the development of treatment strategies for its prevention through basic science and clinical research efforts. The award honors the memory of Jeffrey M. Hoeg, MD, an extraordinary research scientist and physician who, in the prime of his career, was working in the field of lipoprotein metabolism and atherosclerosis.

Elena Aikawa, MD, PhD

ELENA AIKAWA, MD, PhD, FAHA was selected to receive the 2020 Jeffrey M. Hoeg Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology Award for Basic Science & Clinical Research.

BWH Cardiovascular Named Fellowships

Each year the BWH Cardiovascular Division honors three outstanding fellowship trainees for their contributions to Cardiovascular Basic Science – Thomas Smith Award, Clinical Science – Eugene Braunwald Award, and Physiology  – Richard Gorlin Award.

The 2022 honorees for the BWH Cardiovascular Named Fellowships are:

Richard Gorlin
Award

Intended to promote the investigative career of an individual at the fellow level working in physiology, hemodynamics, or catheterization based research.

Zaid Almarzooq

Zaid Almarzooq, MB
Clinical Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Previous Award Recipients

1998 William Maisel, MD
1999 Frederic Resnic, MD
2001 Douglas Drachman, MD
2002 Marc Sabatine, MD
2003 Yerem Yeghiazarians, MD
2004 Akshay Desai, MD
2005 Kent Stephenson, MD
2006 Kevin Croce, MD
2008 Sahil A. Parikh, MD
2009 Reena L. Pande, MD
2010 Matthew Steinhauser, MD
2011 Kumaran Kolandaivelu, MD, PhD
2012 Neil Wimmer, MD
2013 Viviany Taqueti, MD, MPH
2014 Benjamin Galper, MD
2015 Ivana Nikolic, MD
2016 Matthew Nayor, MD
2017 Aaron Kithcart, MD, PhD
2018 Aaron Aday, MD
2019 Sanjay Divakaran, MD
2020 Nicholas Marston, MD
2021 Jenifer M. Brown, MD

Eugene Braunwald
Award

Intended to promote the investigative career of an individual at the fellow level working in clinical investigation in the broadest sense.

Victor Nauffal

Victor Nauffal, MD
Clinical Fellow in Genetics
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Previous Award Recipients

1998 James Delemos MD
1999 David Morrow, MD
2001   Koichiro Harada, MD
2002  Thomas Gaziano, MD
2003   Bruce Koplan, MD
2004   Usha Tedrow, MD
2005   Anne Hamik, MD
2006   Benjamin Scirica, MD
2008   Todd S. Perlstein, MD
2009   Jeffrey Winterfield, MD
2010 Paul Cohen, MD
2011   Nathan Stitziel, MD, PhD
2012 Jacob Udell, MD, PhD
2013 Benjamin Olenchock, MD, PhD
2014 Aaron Aguirre, MD, PhD
2015 Kevin King, MD, PhD
2016 Patrick Lawler, MD
2017 Mark Benson, MD, PhD
2018 Arman Qamar, MD
2019 Christopher N. Toepfer, PhD
2020 David D. Berg, MD
2021 Jonathan W. Cunningham, MD

Thomas Smith
Award

Intended to promote the investigative career of a physician at either the fellow or junior faculty level who desires to pursue basic or clinical invetsigation as it pertains to heart failure.

Deepak S. Atri, MD

Deepak Atri, PhD
Clinical Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Previous Award Recipients

1997 Margaret Arstall,MD
1998 Ulrike Mende, MD
1999 Junsuke Igarashi, MD, PhD
2001 Carolyn Ho, MD
2002 Mark W. Feinberg, MD
2003 Marco Lopez-Ilasaca, MD
2004 Paul Christian Schulze, MD
2005 LibinWang, MD, PhD
2006 Jae Kim, MD
2007 Sanjeev A. Francis, MD
2009 Javid Moslehi, MD
2010 Karen Joynt, MD
2011 Bradley A. Maron, MD
2012 Francis Alenghat, MD, PhD
2013 Travis Hinson, MD, PhD
2014 Rajat Gupta, MD
2015 Sunil Kapur, MD
2016 Michael G. Silverman, MD
2017 Kevin Alexander,MD
2018 Andrea Sorrentino, PhD
2019 Rishi K. Wadhera, MD, MPP, MPhil
2020 Daniel Reichart, MD
2021 Brittany Weber, MD, PhD

AHA Career Development Award

Supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist.

The American Heart Association recognizes outstanding early career faculty with generous Career Development Awards designed to help launch their careers as they begin their faculty appointment.  The Cardiovascular Division is proud to announce the recipients of the AHA Career Development Award.

2021

Brittany N. Weber, MD, PhD Instructor in MedicineEmail*

Brittany Weber, MD, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Advanced CV Imaging and Immunophenotyping to Study Coronary Vascular Health in Psoriasis

Mentor: Marcelo Di Carli, MD

2019

Lai Ming Yung, PhD

Lai Ming Yung, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Biased Agonism of RXFP1 for the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.

Mentor: Paul B. Yu, MD, PhD

Alan Lerner Research Symposium Award

The Alan Lerner Research Symposium is an annual summer event that showcases the admirable attributes of the Cardiovascular Medicine Division research enterprise. This event lets us network among ourselves, brainstorm new ideas, and learn about others with similar interests for possible future collaborations.  It provides a singular opportunity for fellows and faculty to exchange ideas and comments.

2022
Young Investigator Award Recipients, in alphabetical order
Jonathan Cunningham

Jonathan W. Cunningham, MD, MPH
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Aptamer Proteomics for Biomarker Discovery in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction

Laurel Lee

Laurel Y. Lee, MD, DPHIL
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

T-cell-mediated Endothelial Metabolic Reprogramming in Coronary Artery Disease

Brittany N. Weber, MD, PhD Instructor in MedicineEmail*

Brittany Weber, MD, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Association Between Reduction in Inflammation and Change in Cardiovascular Risk: Results From the LiiRA Study.

2021
Young Investigator Award Recipients, in alphabetical order
Yuri Kim, MD, PhDInstructor in Medicine, HMSAssociate Physician, BWHEmail
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Cardiovascular Genetics
Cardiomyopathy
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Yuri Kim, MD, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Intron-Mediated Enhancer of TTN, Encoding Titin, Regulates Sarcomere Formation and Function

Nicholas Marston

Nicholas Marston, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Predictive Power and Value of a CAD Polygenic Risk Score in Primary Prevention Based on Age and Clinical Risk

Andriy Samokhin

Andriy Samokhin, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

NEDD9 Is a Novel Anti-Fibrotic Therapeutic Target and Biomarker in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

The top three posters from post-doctoral fellows were awarded as follows

FIRST PLACE

Jingshu Chen, PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Isolation and Primary Culture of Murine Aortic Cells for Atherosclerosis Research

Mentor: Mark W. Feinberg, MD

SECOND PLACE

Rulin Zhuang, PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

KLF10 Deficiency in CD4+ T Cells Exacerbate Angiotensin II-Induced Perivascular Fibrosis

Mentor: Mark W. Feinberg, MD

THIRD PLACE

Wandi Zhu, PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Piezo1 Mediates a Novel Mechano-Thrombotic Pathway in Cardiometabolic Disease

Mentor: Calum A. MacRae, MD, PhD

2020
Young Investigator Award Recipients, in alphabetical order
Demler Olga

Olga Demler, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Heterogeneous Effects of Omega-3 (n-3) Downstream Fatty Acids (FAs) and Oxylipins on Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Results of Two Metabolomics Substudies of the Randomized Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial (VITAL)

Shashi Kant, PhDAssistant Professor of Medicine	skant1@bwh.harvard.edu*

Shashi Kant, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Neural JNK3 Regulates Blood Flow Recovery After Hindlimb Ischemia in Mice via an Egr1/Creb1 Axis

Muthiah Vaduganathan, MD, MPH Instructor in MedicineEmail*

Muthiah Vaduganathan, MD, MPH
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Empagliflozin Delays Progression to Insulin Initiation or Intensification in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: Findings from the EMPA-REG OUTCOME Trial

The top three posters from post-doctoral fellows were awarded as follows

FIRST PLACE

Tianxiao Liu

Tianxiao Liu,PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Eosinophils Improve Cardiac Functions After Myocardial Infarction

SECOND PLACE

Liu Xin

Xin Liu,PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Eosinophils Protect Mice From Angiotensin-II Perfusion-Induced Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

THIRD PLACE

Xian Zhang, PhD

Xian Zhang, PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Divergent Roles of Two IL18 Receptors in Brown Adipose Tissue Thermogenesis and White Adipose Tissue Glucose Metabolism and Insulin Sensitivity

 

2019
Young Investigator Award Recipients, in alphabetical order
Rajat Gupta, MD

Rajat Gupta, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Single Cell Analysis of the Normal Mouse Aorta Reveals Functionally Distinct Endothelial Cell Populations.

Arvind Pandey, MD

Arvind Pandey, MD
Instructor in Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

CD70 is Essential for Protein Expression in Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase.

Sasha Singh, PhD

Sasha Singh, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Insights into Protein Metabolism Heterogeneity Challenge the Reverse Cholesterol Transport Theory: A Novel Mass Spectrometry Platform for Metabolic Tracer Studies in the Clinic

The top three posters from post-doctoral fellows were awarded as follows

FIRST PLACE

Sio (Henry) Cheng, PhD

Sio (Henry) Cheng, PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Identification of MicroRNAs in Human and Mouse Diabetic Critical Limb Ischemia.

SECOND PLACE

Patricia Borck, PhD

Patricia Borck, PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Inhibition of BRD4 Prevents the Misexpression of Mesenchymal and Fibrotic Markers during Endothelial to Mesenchymal Transition.

THIRD PLACE

Livia Passos, PhD

Livia Passos, PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Proteins Associated With Sex Hormone Receptor Activity Contribute to Heart Valve Disease.

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