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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.
Announcing: Sarnoff Alumni Achievement Award
The Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation is pleased to announce the creation of a new award, the Alumni Achievement Award. For more information, click here.
Latest News
Hameed Aziz, MD (2003-04 Sarnoff Fellow) had a recent publication, Aziz A, Lee AM, Pasque MK, Lawton JS, Moazami N, Damiano, RJ, Moon MR. Evaluation of Revascularization Subtypes in Octogenarians Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting. Circulation. Sep 15;120(11 Suppl):S65-9, 2009. He also had two oral presentations: American Heart Association Scientific Sessions (2009), "Proteomic Profiling of Early Chronic Pulmonary Hypertension Suggests Significant Development of Maladaptive Pathology". Orlando, Fl. Nov 14-18, 2009, and 56th Annual Meeting of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association, "Age and Prosthesis Type Affect Late Survival following Mitral Valve Replacement in Patients with Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch." Marco Island, FL. Nov 4-7, 2009
Amanda Elliott (2007-09 Sarnoff Fellow) is currently enjoying her m3 internal medicine rotation at the University of Michigan. She will be the lead CNV analyst and co-author of an upcoming paper from the MAGIC consortium (Meta-Analyses of Glucose and Insulin-related traits Consortium) in Nature Genetics titled "New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk." PMID 20081858. This January, she was a collaborator on a paper titled "Parental origin of sequence variants associated with complex diseases" that appeared in Nature, PMID: 20016592. Also, earlier this year she was the lead Copy Number Variant analyst and coauthor on a paper from the GIANT consortium (Genetic Investigation of ANthropomorphic Traits) titled "Six new loci associated with Body Mass Index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation" which was published in Nature Genetics, PMID: 19079261.
Daniel Kelly, MD a member of the Sarnoff Board of Directors and Scientific Director at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research - Lake Nona, was the recipient of the 2009 Basic Research Prize of the American Heart Association. This Prize is awarded each year in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of cardiovascular science. Dr. Kelly received this award in November at the AHA Scientific Sessions.
Minesh Khatri, MD (2005-06 Sarnoff Fellow) had two recent publications: "Improving global vascular risk prediction with behavioral and anthropometric factors. The multiethnic NOMAS (Northern Manhattan Cohort Study)." Sacco RL, Khatri M, Rundek T, Xu Q, Gardener H, Boden-Albala B, Di Tullio MR, Homma S, Elkind MS, Paik MC. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009 Dec 8;54(24):2303-11 and "CKD associates with cognitive decline."Khatri M, Nickolas T, Moon YP, Paik MC, Rundek T, Elkind MS, Sacco RL, Wright CB. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2009 Nov;20(11):2427-32. Epub 2009 Sep 3.
Camille Linick Stewart (2008-09 Sarnoff Fellow) will be presenting, Hemangioma Stem Cells Can Differentiate Into Pericytes In Vitro and In Vivo, (based on her research during her Sarnoff year) at the Plastic Surgery Research Council Annual Meeting in May 2010.
Jon Lomasney, MD (1984-85 Sarnoff Fellow and 1989-1990 Sarnoff Scholar) has been appointed Director of the new Feinberg Academy of Medical Educators (FAME) at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Lomasney is Associate Professor of Pathology and Pharmacology at Northwestern. Under Dr. Lomasney's leadership, the Academy will be focused on supporting the teaching mission and the faculty who chart the course for innovative education methods.
James Martin, MD (1986-87 Sarnoff Fellow) was recently appointed the Chief Medical Officer at Minor and James Medical Group in Seattle, Washington.
Javid Moslehi, MD (1998-99 Sarnoff Fellow) recently joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School. He will be a staff cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he will co-direct a new Cardio-Oncology program. He received an NIH career development grant (K08) and will continue his basic research on the role of HIF transcription factors in the heart.
Ashvin Pande, MD (1996-98 Sarnoff Fellow) has recently joined the Cardiovascular Division at Boston Medical Center as Director of Endovascular and Structural Heart Interventions and as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. He was previously a staff interventional cardiologist at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston, MA, where he was Director of the Structural Heart Disease Program and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
Sahil Parikh, MD (1998-99 Sarnoff Fellow) served as a presenter on an alumni panel representing Sarnoff at the NIH CIST Forum in November. Current Sarnoff fellows are invited to participate in the CIST Forum each year.
Benjamin Steinberg, MD (2005-06 Sarnoff Fellow) will be starting cardiology fellowship at Duke in July.
Derin Tugal (2008-09 Sarnoff Fellow) recently co-authored a paper, Ferreira-Martins J, Rondon-Clavo C, Tugal D, Korn JA, Rizzi R, Padin-Iruegas ME, Ottolenghi S, De Angelis A, Urbanek K, Iwata N, D'Amario D, Hosoda T, Leri A, Kajstura J, Anversa P, Rota M. Spontaneous Calcium Oscillations Regulate Human Cardiac Progenitor Cell Growth. Circulation Research 2009 (September 10,).
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