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