Hypertension. 2005;45:649-651
doi: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000162524.66948.b9
(Hypertension. 2005;45:649.)
© 2005 American Heart Association, Inc.
Awards
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Merck New Investigator Award/United States
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The purpose of the Merck New Investigator Award is to encourage
young investigators to undertake or continue hypertension research
and participate in the conference. The award permits a young
investigator to travel to the annual meeting and to present
research orally or in poster format and to engage in discussion
with senior investigators. The candidates are young investigators
(MD or PhD), fellows in training, and academicians who hold
an academic rank no higher than that of instructor at the time
of submission of an abstract. Each awardee (up to 10) will receive
$1200.
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Merck New Investigator Award/United States. Top row: Ernesto Schiffrin, Jian Wei Gu, Andrew Miller, Darren Hoffman, Peter Abadir, and Robert Carey. Front row: Maria Marcela Herrera, Kathleen Sellers, Xiuying Ma, and Christine Rigsby. Not pictured: Ruisheng Liu and Mikhiela Sherrod.
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Awardees
Peter Abadir, Jian-Wei Gu, Maria Marcela Herrera, Darren Hoffman, Ruisheng Liu Xiuying Ma, Andrew Miller, Christine Rigsby, Kathleen Sellers, and Mikhiela Sherrod.
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Merck New Investigator Award/Latin America
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The Merck New Investigator Award/Latin America is presented
with the same criteria to up to five qualified new investigators
who plan to pursue their careers in Latin America. Each awardee
will receive $1250.
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Merck New Investigator Award/Latin America. Left to right: Ana da Silva, Mariela Gironacci, Giancarla Santos, and Nestor Perez.
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New Investigator Travel Award for Japanese Fellows (supported by an educational grant from Pfizer)
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The purpose of this award is to encourage new investigators
from Japan to undertake or continue hypertension research and
to participate in the Annual Fall Conference and Scientific
Sessions of the American Heart Association Council for High
Blood Pressure Research. The award will be presented to up to
five qualified new investigators from Japan who present papers
at the annual fall conference. Each awardee will receive $2000.
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New Investigator Travel Award for Japanese Fellows. Left to right: Rie Hakamada-Taguchi and Shuntaro Kagiyama. Not pictured: Tomohiro Katsuya.
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New Investigator Award for European Fellows (supported by an educational grant from AstraZeneca)
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This New Investigator Award will be presented to up to five
qualified new investigators from Europe who present abstracts
at the Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the
Council for High Blood Pressure Research, in association with
the Council on Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease. The purpose
of this award is to encourage new investigators from Europe
to undertake or continue hypertension research and to participate
in the conference. Each awardee will receive $1200.
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New Investigator Award for European Fellows. Top row: Michael Schupp, Nicholas Kelland, and Martin McBride. Front row: Fadi Charchar and Carolina DeCiuceis.
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New Investigator Award for US Fellows (supported by an educational grant from CV Therapeutics)
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The purpose of this competition is to encourage new investigators
to undertake or continue hypertension research and to participate
in the conference. The award will be presented to up to six
new investigators who present abstracts at the Annual Fall Conference
and Scientific Sessions of the Council for High Blood Pressure
Research, in association with the Council on Kidney in Cardiovascular
Disease. Each awardee will receive $1200.
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New Investigator Award for US Fellows. Top row: Michael Gorman (CVT), Chris Postiglione (CVT), and Yilin Ren. Front row: Beverly Metcalfe, Sherry Oden, and Hongmei Peng. Not pictured: Matthew Zimmerman and John Forman.
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Kidney Council New Investigator Travel Award
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Young investigators from the Kidney Council are invited to participate
in the general area of hypertension at the Annual Fall Conference
and Scientific Sessions of the Council for High Blood Pressure
Research. The program is in association with the Council on
the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease. The New Investigator Travel
Award will be presented to qualified new investigators who have
submitted an abstract for the conference. The goal is to encourage
council members and their collaborators to get more involved
in the annual conference. Each awardee will receive $1200.
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