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(Hypertension. 2007;49:588.)
© 2007 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) receives $1200.

The recipients of this award are Elangovan Vellaichamy, Shetal Padia, Kelly Parsons, Jennifer Sullivan, Andreas Beyer, Jeffrey Olearczyk, Sandra Malakauskas, Youping Wang, Jeffrey Peterson, and Jiang Xu.

View larger version (74K):   The Merck New Investigator Award/United States and Latin America. Pictured from left to right: Sandra Malakauskas, Jennifer Sullivan, Kelly Parsons, Shetal Padia, Youping Wang, Robert M. Carey (Chair, Council for High Blood Pressure Research), Veronica Peotta, Jeffrey Peterson, Minolfa C. Prieto-Carrasquero, Andreas Beyer, L. Gabriel Navar (Chair, Programming Committee), Jiang Xu, Jefffrey Olearczyk, and Elangovan Vellaichamy.

	Merck New Investigator Award/Latin America

 
The Merck New Investigator Award/Latin America is presented with the same criteria to up to 5 qualified new investigators who plan to pursue their careers in Latin America. Each awardee receives $1250.

The recipients of this award are Veronica Peotta, Minolfa C. Prieto-Carrasquero, Anderson Ferreira, and Fernando Carneiro.

	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 . . . [Full Text of this Article]