CVI Travel Award Winners

August 2023

Adrian Bacong, PhD       

Postdoctoral Scholar

Latha Palaniappan, MD, MS

Mentor

Underweight and Obesity Among Asian Children at Age 3 to 5 Years: Implications for Counseling to Promote Cardiometabolic Health Across the Lifecourse

AHA Scientific Sessions, Nov. 11-13, 2023, Philadelphia, PA

Sarasa Isobe, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar, Cardiology

Marlene Rabinovitch, MD

Mentor

Loss of BMPR2 Links Unrepaired DNA Damage to Reduced FOXF1 and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Keystone Symposia, Z8: Pulmonary Hypertension: State of the Art and Therapeutic Opportunities
June 25 – 28, 2023
Santa Fe, NM

Rachel Baum, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Ioannis Karakikes, PhD

Mentor

Impaired Microtubule Mediated Protein Trafficking as a Mechanism of PLN R14del Dilated Cardiomyopathy

AHA Scientific Sessions, Nov. 11-13, 2023, Philadelphia, PA

Antonia Chan, MD

Researcher

Han Zhu, MD

Mentor

Increased Monocyte Count and Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio With ICI Myocarditis

AHA Scientific Sessions, Nov. 11-13, 2023, Philadelphia, PA

Perry Choi, MD

Resident Physician, Postdoctoral Fellow

Michael Ma, MD

Mentor

Warm Beating Orthotopic Heart Transplantation

Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society, Oct. 19-21, 2023, Boston, MA

Desireé Conrad, MD

Adult Congenital Heart Disease Fellow and Travel Award Outreach Awardee           

Tom Collins, MD

Mentor

Novel, Echocardiographic Indicators of Coronary Artery Stenosis in Williams Syndrome are Comparable to Catheter Angiography

AAP National Conference & Exhibition, Oct. 20-24, 2023, Washington, DC

Mustapha El Zeini, BSc  

Research Associate

Ian Chen, MD, PhD

Mentor

Unsupervised Machine Learning of Imaging-Based Sub-Phenotypes of Aortic Stenosis with Differential Risks of Conduction Disturbances After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement

AHA Scientific Sessions, Nov. 11-13, 2023, Philadelphia, PA

Chikage Noishiki, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Nazish Sayed, MD, PhD

Mentor

Modeling NT5E Gene Mutations Induced Arterial Calcification Utilizing an Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Platform

AHA Scientific Sessions, Nov. 11-13, 2023, Philadelphia, PA

Chengyi Tu, PhD

Instructor

Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD

Mentor

A 3D Engineered Model of Tachycardia-Induced Cardiomyopathy Reveals SERCA2a Acetylation as a Molecular Driver of Contractile Dysfunction

Biomedical Engineering Society, Oct. 11-14, 2023, , Seattle, WA.

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