2009 Winners
Daniel J. Kass, MD University of Pittsburgh
- Co-investigator: Hunter C. Champion, MD, PhD
- Mentor: Mark Gladwin, MD
- Project Title: Targeting the MetAP2 Pathway in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
- Presented at 2010 and 2011 American Thoracic Society Conferences
- Published in PLoS One, 2012
Sean E. McLean, MD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Mentor: Cam Patterson, MD, MBA
- Project Title: Smooth Muscle Cell Related Vascular Remodeling in Pulmonary Hypertension in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
Alexander R. Opotowsky, MD, MPH Boston Children's Hospital
- Mentor: Michael J. Landzberg, MD
- Project Title: Dysregulation of Lipid Metabolism and Right Ventricular Function in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
- Presented at 2013 American College of Cardiology meeting
Michael Eric Yeager, PhD University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Mentor: D. Dunbar Ivy, MD
- Project Title: Circulating Mesenchymal Precursors in Severe PAH and the Role of Endothelin-1 in their Recruitment and Differentiation into Fibrocytes
- Published in European Respiratory Journal, 2012 and Chest, 2012
