CVI Travel Award Winners

May 2022

Stefan Veizades, BSc

Research Fellow, Cardiovascular Institute, and CVI Travel Award Outreach Awardee

Patricia Nguyen, MD

PI Mentor

Cross Talk Between T Cells And Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells May Contribute To Phenotypic Changes In Human Coronary Plaque

Vascular Discovery: From Genes to Medicine Scientific Sessions; May 12-14, 2022; Seattle, WA


Isabella Damiani, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Institute

Juyong Kim Brian, MD, MPH

PI Mentor

Electronic Cigarettes Activate The Heat Shock Response In Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells In Atherosclerosis

Vascular Discovery: From Genes to Medicine 2022 Scientific Sessions, May 12-14, 2022, Seattle, WA


Anna Hnatiuk, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiovascular Institute

Mark Mercola, PhD

PI Mentor

Reengineering Ponatinib To Minimize Cardiovascular Toxicity

AACR Annual Meeting 2022, New Orleans, Wednesday, April 8, 2022


Martin Pfaller, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiology

Alison Marsden, PhD

PI Mentor

A Computational Model For Cardiovascular Fluid-Solid-Growth Interaction

Computational and Mathematical Biomedical Engineering, 27-29 June, Milano, Italy



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