CVI Travel Award Winners

Hossein Bahrami (PI Mentors: Paul Heidenreich/Michael McConnell)
Abstract: High left ventricular ejection fraction is associated with worse outcomes in patients with and without heart failure
Meeting: American College of Cardiology (ACC)

• Paul Burridge (PI Mentor: Joseph Wu)
  Abstract: Chemically defined and small molecule-based generation of human cardiomyocytes
  Meeting: Fourth International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering (ICSCE)
• Pin-I Chen (PI Mentor: Marlene Rabinovitch)
  Abstract: Amphetamine enhances the susceptibility of pulmonary arterial endothelial cells (PAEC) to apoptosis and DNA damage
  Meeting: Keystone Symposia – Metabolism and Angiogenesis
  
• Ayal Hendel (PI Mentor: Matthew Porteus)
  Abstract: Quantifying genome editing outcomes at endogenous loci using SMRT sequencing
  Meeting: Therapeutics Discovery Symposia USA 2014, Genome Engineering & Genome Editing
  
• Luqia Hou (PI Mentor: Ngan Huang)
  Abstract: Extracellular matrix-mediated endothelial differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells
  Meeting: Experimental Biology 2014
  
• Gina Jung (PI Mentor: Dan Bernstein)
  Abstract: Maturation of ß-adrenergic receptor (ß-AR) signaling in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs)
  Meeting: Keystone Symposia - Stem Cells and Reprogramming 
• Daniel Kaiser (PI Mentor: Paul Wang)
  Abstract: Source mapping and differential entrainment: a potential guide for ablation of complex arrhythmia
  Meeting: Heart Rhythm 2014
  
• Uwe Raaz (PI Mentor: Phil Tsao)
  Abstract: Cbfa1 (Runx2) is a mediator of aortic stiffness and hypertension in a murine model of diabetes mellitus type 2
  Meeting: Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB) 2014 Scientific Sessions
• Ranjan Ray (PI Mentor: Kiran Khush)
  Abstract: Treatment of left ventricular assist device associated arteriovenous malformations with thalidomide
  Meeting: International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
  
• Sharla Powell White (PI Mentor: Wei Zhou)
  Abstract: Modulation of the PKC epsilon pathway affects macrophage expression
  Meeting: Keystone Symposia - Molecular Cell Biology of Macrophages in Human Diseases