CVI Travel Award Winners

September 2017

Mingxia Gu, PhD
 

PI Mentor:
Marlene Rabinovitch, MD

High-Throughput Drug Screening of iPSC-Derived Vascular Cells to Reverse PAH Phenotype

AHA Scientific Sessions 2017
Anaheim, CA
 

Vedant Pargaonkar, PhD
 

PI Mentor:
Jennifer Tremmel, MD

Clinical Outcome and Long-term Follow-up in Patients with Angina in the Absence of Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease

American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2017
Anaheim, California

Kenneth Tran, MD
 

PI Mentor:
Jason Lee, MD

Complex EVAR is associated with higher peri-operative mortality but not late-mortality compared to infrarenal EVAR amongst octogenarians

Western Vascular Society
Blaine, Washington

Ke Yuan, PhD
 

PI Mentor:
Vinicio de Jesus Perez, MD

Loss of Wnt5a Disrupts Endothelial-Pericyte Interaction in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

American Heart Association Scientific Session
Anaheim, California
 

Christoph Olivier, MD
 

PI Mentor:
Mintu Turakhia, MD, MAS

Site Variation and Trends for Antithrombotic Therapy in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the VA system: Findings from the TREAT-AF Study

AHA Scientific Sessions 2017
Anaheim, California

Ji-Hye Jung, PhD
 

PI Mentor:
Phillip Yang, MD

Exosomal miR-106a-363 cluster from the hypoxic human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes restore the autologous ischemic cardiomyocytes

AHA Scientific Session 2017
Anaheim, California

Vivek Nanda, PhD
 

PI Mentor:
Nicholas Leeper, MD

Functional Regulatory Mechanism of Smooth Muscle Cell-Restricted LMOD1 Coronary Artery Disease Locus

American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2017
Anaheim, California

Martin Willemink, MD, PhD
 

PI Mentor:
Dominik Fleischmann, MD

Aortomitral Calcification Volume Predicts Mortality in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

AHA Scientific Sessions 2017
Anaheim, California
 

Daniela Zanetti, PhD
 

PI Mentor:
Erik Ingelsson, MD

Birthweight and Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: Revisiting the Berker Hypothesis using Big Data

American Heart Association
Anaheim, California

Mingtao Zhao, MD
 

PI Mentor:
Joseph Wu, MD, PhD

Cell Type-Specific Chromatin Signatures Underline Regulatory DNA Elements in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Cardiac Cells

AHA Scientific Sessions
Anaheim, California
 

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