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(Hypertension. 2005;45:649.)
© 2005 American Heart Association, Inc.

Awards

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	Merck New Investigator Award/United States

 
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.

View larger version (100K): [in this window] [in a new window]   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.

Awardees
Peter Abadir, Jian-Wei Gu, Maria Marcela Herrera, Darren Hoffman, Ruisheng Liu Xiuying Ma, Andrew Miller, Christine Rigsby, Kathleen Sellers, and Mikhiela Sherrod.

	Merck New Investigator Award/Latin America

 
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.

View larger version (105K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Merck New Investigator Award/Latin America. Left to right: Ana da Silva, Mariela Gironacci, Giancarla Santos, and Nestor Perez.

	New Investigator Travel Award for Japanese Fellows (supported by an educational grant from Pfizer)

 
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 . . . [Full Text of this Article]