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, FAHA was selected to receive the 2020 Jeffrey M. Hoeg Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology Award for Basic Science & Clinical Research.
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:
Award
Intended to promote the investigative career of an individual at the fellow level working in physiology, hemodynamics, or catheterization based research.
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
Award
Intended to promote the investigative career of an individual at the fellow level working in clinical investigation in the broadest sense.
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
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 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
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 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
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
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.
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 Y. Lee, MD, DPHIL
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
T-cell-mediated Endothelial Metabolic Reprogramming in Coronary Artery Disease
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.
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, 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, PhD
Instructor in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
NEDD9 Is a Novel Anti-Fibrotic Therapeutic Target and Biomarker in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
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
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, 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 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
FIRST PLACE
Tianxiao Liu,PhD
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Eosinophils Improve Cardiac Functions After Myocardial Infarction
SECOND PLACE
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
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
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
Instructor in Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
CD70 is Essential for Protein Expression in Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase.
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
FIRST PLACE
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
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
Research Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Proteins Associated With Sex Hormone Receptor Activity Contribute to Heart Valve Disease.