doi: 10.1161/hy0202.104346
(Hypertension. 2002;39:721.)
© 2002 American Heart Association, Inc.
Awards |
17th Annual Aventis Pharma Hypertension Research Clinical Fellowship Program Award
The purpose of this program and research award is to stimulate physicians-in-training to pursue a career in clinical research in hypertension. The research fellow must be conducting work in which he or she is the major senior investigator in any area of the researcher’s choice, including clinical or laboratory aspects of the hypertensive diseases. The fellow’s work would be supervised by the director of the research training program (the mentor), but the conduct of the investigation is primarily by the research fellow. The winning presentation receives $3,000, and the fellow’s mentor receives $25,000 to support the clinical investigative training of a research fellow the following year. 
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Dr Richard A. Birnbaum completed his undergraduate work at the University of California, San Diego, and received his medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Ky. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colo, and is currently a fellow in cardiology at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, Va. He spent the first 2 years of his fellowship in the laboratory of Coleen McNamara, studying the role of the basic helix-loop-helix factor E47 in vascular smooth muscle cell growth and vascular lesion formation. His work has led to the identification of E47 as an endogenous inhibitor of smooth muscle cell (SMC) growth, at least in part through regulation of the cdk inhibitor p21. Identification of E47 as a factor that is upregulated in response to vascular injury in an animal model of balloon carotid injury provides evidence that E47 may be a critical factor in the regulation of smooth muscle proliferation in vivo and provides insight into the mechanisms that govern SMC growth, which may facilitate the development of new therapies to prevent restenosis and other vascular proliferative disorders.
Previous Recipients of the Hoechst Marion Roussel Hypertension Research Clinical Fellowship Award
2000
Dr Patricia L. Turner,
Howard University Hospital,
Mentor: Mark Knepper
1999
David Geller, MD, PhD,
Yale University School of Medicine,
Mentor: Richard Lifton
1998
Martin Matsubara, MD,
University of Virginia,
Mentor: Coleen McNamara
1997
W. Reid Litchfield, MD,
Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital,
Mentor: Robert G. Dluhy
1996
David B. Simon, MD,
Yale University School of Medicine,
Mentor: Richard Lifton
1995
Joni H. Hansson, MD,
Yale University School of Medicine,
Mentor: Richard Lifton
1994
John Krege, MD,
University of North Carolina,
Mentor: Oliver Smithies
1993
Luis A. Juncos, MD,
Henry Ford Hospital,
Mentors: Sadayoski Ito and Oscar A. Carretero
1992
Amy L. Tucker, MD,
University of Virginia,
Mentor: Kevin R. Lynch
1991
Elizabeth Gilbert D’Angelo, MD,
University of Virginia,
Mentor: Christopher M. Rembold
1990
Bruno Escalante, MD,
New York Medical College,
Mentor: John C. McGiff
1989
Allen Everett, MD,
University of Virginia,
Mentor: Ariel Gomez
1988
Allen J. Naftilan, MD,
Harvard Medical School/Brigham and
Women’s Hospital,
Mentor: Victor J. Dzau
1987
Christopher M. Rembold, MD,
University of Virginia,
Mentor: Carlos R. Ayers
1986
Judith E. Kalinejak, MD, PhD,
Stanford Medical Center,
Mentor: Andrew J. Perlman
1985
Gail K. Adler, MD, PhD,
Harvard Medical School/Peter Bent
Brigham Hospital,
Mentor: Gordon H. Williams
1984
Christine Seidman, MBBS,
Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital,
Mentor: Robert M. Graham
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