CVI Travel Award Winners
August 2023
Adrian Bacong, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS
Mentor
Underweight and Obesity Among Asian Children at Age 3 to 5 Years: Implications for Counseling to Promote Cardiometabolic Health Across the Lifecourse
AHA Scientific Sessions, Nov. 11-13, 2023, Philadelphia, PA
Sarasa Isobe, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiology
Marlene Rabinovitch, MD
Mentor
Loss of BMPR2 Links Unrepaired DNA Damage to Reduced FOXF1 and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Keystone Symposia, Z8: Pulmonary Hypertension: State of the Art and Therapeutic Opportunities
June 25 – 28, 2023
Santa Fe, NM
Rachel Baum, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ioannis Karakikes, PhD
Mentor
Impaired Microtubule Mediated Protein Trafficking as a Mechanism of PLN R14del Dilated Cardiomyopathy
AHA Scientific Sessions, Nov. 11-13, 2023, Philadelphia, PA
Antonia Chan, MD
Researcher
Han Zhu, MD
Mentor
Increased Monocyte Count and Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio With ICI Myocarditis
AHA Scientific Sessions, Nov. 11-13, 2023, Philadelphia, PA
Perry Choi, MD
Resident Physician, Postdoctoral Fellow
Michael Ma, MD
Mentor
Warm Beating Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society, Oct. 19-21, 2023, Boston, MA
Desireé Conrad, MD
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Fellow and Travel Award Outreach Awardee
Tom Collins, MD
Mentor
Novel, Echocardiographic Indicators of Coronary Artery Stenosis in Williams Syndrome are Comparable to Catheter Angiography
AAP National Conference & Exhibition, Oct. 20-24, 2023, Washington, DC
Mustapha El Zeini, BSc
Research Associate
Ian Chen, MD, PhD
Mentor
Unsupervised Machine Learning of Imaging-Based Sub-Phenotypes of Aortic Stenosis with Differential Risks of Conduction Disturbances After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
AHA Scientific Sessions, Nov. 11-13, 2023, Philadelphia, PA
Chikage Noishiki, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Nazish Sayed, MD, PhD
Mentor
Modeling NT5E Gene Mutations Induced Arterial Calcification Utilizing an Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Platform
AHA Scientific Sessions, Nov. 11-13, 2023, Philadelphia, PA
Chengyi Tu, PhD
Instructor
Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD
Mentor
A 3D Engineered Model of Tachycardia-Induced Cardiomyopathy Reveals SERCA2a Acetylation as a Molecular Driver of Contractile Dysfunction
Biomedical Engineering Society, Oct. 11-14, 2023, , Seattle, WA.