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The mission of Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation is to engage medical students and young investigators in a personalized research experience with preeminent cardiovascular scientists, and to foster the next generation of leaders in the field.

2010-11 Medical Student Research Fellowship Program
The Sarnoff Fellowship Program offers research opportunities for outstanding medical students to explore careers in cardiovascular research. Applicants must be enrolled in accredited U.S. medical schools. Sarnoff Fellows conduct intensive work in a research laboratory, located in the United States, for one year. Prior research experience is not a prerequisite.

What makes Sarnoff unique is our lifetime commitment to the Fellow. A member of our Scientific Committee guides the Fellow during the research year and throughout the Fellow's career. The Fellow interacts with other Fellows, Scholars and Foundation leaders at the Sarnoff Annual Scientific Meetings, Sarnoff-sponsored regional events, and at other scientific conferences.

Latest News

Dr. Rajat Gupta (Sarnoff Fellow 2005-2006) and Kenechi Ejebe (Sarnoff Fellow 2008-2009) co-authored an abstract that was presented at the Massachusetts General Hospital Clinical Research Day 2009. Gupta and Ejebe are conducting research in Dr. Sekar Kathiresan’s laboratory. The abstract entitled "Association of Common DNA Sequence Variants at Thirty-three Genetic Loci with Blood Lipids in Individuals of African Ancestry from Jamaica", took the 1st place prize in the Massachusetts General Hospital Clinic Research Day competition.

Dr. Clay Marsh, member of the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation’s Board of Directors and an internationally respected Ohio State University (OSU) scientist and educator, has been named to lead OSU Medical Center’s pioneering research program, one of the largest in the nation. In addition, he will direct the Medical Center’s innovative program for personalized health care. He has been appointed as Senior Associate Vice President for Research in the Office of Health Sciences, Vice Dean for Research in the College of Medicine and Executive Director of the OSU Center for Personalized Health Care.

The Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation is pleased to announce the 2009-10 Fellowship Awardees. Read more.

Congratulations to the following Sarnoff Alumni who participated in the 2009 National Residency Matching Program:

Natalia Berry (2006-07 Fellow) – Massachusetts General Hospital, Internal Medicine

Vandna Handa (2006-07 Fellow) – University of Indiana, Medicine/Pediatrics

Masataka Kawana (2007-08 Fellow) – Stanford, Internal Medicine

Marie Eve Laden (2007-08 Fellow) – Stanford, General Surgery

Jeffrey Lin (2007-08 Fellow) – Columbia, Internal Medicine

Albert Luo (2006-07 Fellow) – Stanford, Internal Medicine

Joshua Schulman-Marcus (2007-08 Fellow) – Columbia, Internal Medicine

Frank Volpicelli (2007-08 Fellow) – Beth Israel Deaconess, Internal Medicine

David Strauss, a Second Year Sarnoff Fellow conducting his research with Dr. Kathy Wu at Johns Hopkins, recently published two first-author studies and was selected to present and receive a monetary award on Duke Medicine's Research Career Day (May 6, 2009). His publications are below:
Strauss DG, et al. Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, 2008;1:327-336.
Strauss DG, et al. Journal of Electrocardiology. 2009;42:190-197.

Trevor Burt, M.D., (2000-01 Sarnoff Fellow) recently had a paper published in PNAS that includes work that he did as a Sarnoff Fellow. He also was a contributing author of "Maternal Alloantigens Promote the Development of Tolerogenic Fetal Regulatory T Cells in Utero" in Science.

Hazim El-Haddad (2007-09 Sarnoff Fellow) is the co-author of "Targeting Nrf2 with triterpenoid CDDO-imidazolide attenuates cigarette smoke-induced emphysema and cardiac dysfunction in mice" which was published in PNAS.

Alumni Profile

Geoffrey Gurtner, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Stanford University School of Medicine

I have benefited from tremendous mentorship that has continued on to the present day from both my original Sarnoff fellowship mentor and my Sarnoff Scholar mentor. Read more ...

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