2008 Winners
Gaurav Choudhary, MD Alpert Medical School at Brown University
- Mentor: James Klinger, MD
- Project Title: Role of Endothelin-induced PKC delta Activation in Right Ventricular Hypertrophy
Hyung J. Chun, MD Yale University School of Medicine
- Mentor: Thomas Quertemous, MD
- Project Title: Role of the Apelin-APJ Pathway in Endothelin-1 Signaling and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
- Published in Nature Medicine, 2013 and Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 2011
- Presented at 2009 American Heart Association meeting and 2009 American Thoracic Society Conference
Scott D. Halpern, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Mentor: Brian Strom, MD
- Project Title: Racial Differences in Responsiveness to Endothelin Receptor Antagonists in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Sayyed A. Hamidi, MD State University of New York, Stony Brook
- Mentor: Sami I. Said, MD
- Project Title: A New Combination Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Bosentan and VIP
- Presented at 2010 American Thoracic Society Conference, 2010 Aspen Lung Conference, and 2010 Annual Congress of European Respiratory Society (funded by ENTELLIGENCE and the National Institutes of Health)
- Published abstracts: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2010 and European Respiratory Journal Supplement, 2010
- Published in Respiratory Research, 2011
Sanjiv Shah, MD Northwestern University Medical Center
- Mentor: John Varga MD
- Project Title: Genetic Risk Factors for Connective Tissue Disease (CTD)-Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH)
- Published in Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2013, Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, 2012, and Current Rheumatology Reports, 2009
Venkataramana Sidhaye, MD Johns Hopkins University
- Mentor: Larissa Shimoda, PhD
- Project Title: Endothelin-1 Mediated Pulmonary Smooth Muscle Migration is Mediated by AQP1
- Published in American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, 2012
Ari Lev Zaiman, MD, PhD Johns Hopkins University
- Mentor: Hal Dietz, MD
- Project Title: Role of Endothelin Abrogration of TGF Signaling in the Vascular Endothelium Attenuates Hypoxia Induced Pulmonary Hypertension
- Presented at 2010 American Thoracic Society Conference
