2007 Winners
Yabing Chen, PhD UAB School of Medicine
- Mentor: Raymond Benza, MD
- Project Title: PAI-1 Regulates Vascular Remodeling in Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension
Christopher Fiack, MD John A. Burns School of Medicine
- Mentor: Harrison Farber, MD
- Project Title: Pulmonary Hypertension due to the Left Ventricular Dysfunction
Anna R Hemnes, MD Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
- Mentor: John Newman, MD
- Project Title: The Role of Endothelin-1 in Right Ventricular Response to Pressure Overload
- Presented at 2008 American Thoracic Society Conference
Jeffrey C Horowitz, MD University of Michigan Health System
- Mentor: Victor J. Thannickal, MD
- Project Title: Regulation of Myofibroblast Resistance to Apoptosis by Endothelin-1
- Published in American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, 2009
Meredith A. Preuss, PhD UAB School of Medicine
- Mentor: David Curiel, MD
- Project Title: Downstream Redox Regulation of Endothelin B Receptor in the Pulmonary Endothelium
- Published in Virology, 2013 and The Open Gene Therapy Journal, 2008
Olga Rafikova, MD, PhD Georgia Health Sciences University
- Mentor: Steven P. Tofovic, MD, PhD
- Project Title: Protein Nitration and Anti-remodeling Effects of Endothelin Receptor Antagonists in Pulmonary Hypertension
- Presented at 2009 Pittsburgh International Lung Conference, 2009 American Thoracic Society Conference, and 2010 European Respiratory Society Congress
- Published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, 2013
Megha H. Talati, PhD Vanderbilt University
- Mentor: Barbara Meyrick, PhD
- Project Title: Effect of BMPR2 Mutation in FPAH on ET-1 and ET-1 Receptors and Smad/MAPK Activation by ET-1 Receptors in Lung ECs and PASMCs in the Mouse Model of PAH
- Published in the American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, 2010
- Presented at 2009 American Thoracic Society meeting (travel funded by Cardiovascular Medicine Research and Education Fund)
Yerem Yeghiazarians, MD University of California, San Francisco
- Mentor:Teresa DeMarco, MD
- Project Title: Effect of Endothelin Receptor Blockade on Circulating Endothelial Microparticle Levels in Patients with Pulmonary Hypertension
