Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation

2008-09 Sarnoff Fellows

	Aaron Aday Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine Sponsor: Dr. Lauren Cohn Host Institution: University of Massachusetts Preceptor: Nathan Lawson, PhD Research area: Identifying epigenetic modifications associated with transcriptional activation in endothelial-expressed genes
	Hamza Aziz Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine Sponsor: Dr. Geoffrey Ginsberg Host Institution: Johns Hopkins University Preceptor: Hal Dietz, MD Research area: Effect of TGF? elevation on endothelial to mesechymal transformation in mice with FBN1 mutations
	Suparna Chandra Medical School: Dartmouth Medical School Sponsor: Dr. Alan Kono Host Institution: Stanford Preceptor: Thomas Quertermous, MD Research area: Apelin-APJ expression and signaling in vascular smooth muscle cells
	Stephanie Chang Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine Sponsor: Dr. Neil Freedman Host Institution: Stanford Preceptor: Michael Fischbein, MD Research area: TBD
	Zachary Corbin Medical School: Yale University School of Medicine Sponsor: Dr. Lauren Cohn Host Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital Preceptor: Karen Furie, MD Research area: Association between biomarkers of oxidative stress and WMH volume in patients with acute ischemic stroke
	Kenechi Ejebe Medical School: George Washington University School of Medicine Sponsor: Dr. Yolanda Haywood Host Institution: Massachusetts General Hospital Preceptor: Sekar Kathiresan, MD Research area: Genetic fine-mapping in African-Americans of novel gene regions associated with blood lipids and myocardial infarction
	Michael Januszyk Medical School: University of Chicago Sponsor: Dr. Elizabeth McNally Host Institution: Stanford Preceptor: Geoff Gurtner, MD Research area: Differences in gene expression between the diabetic and wild type phenotype at the single cell level
	Camille Linick Medical School: Tulane University School of Medicine Sponsor: Dr. Philip Kadowitz Host Institution: Children's Hospital Boston Preceptor: Joyce Bischoff, PhD Research area: Investigating the differentiation potential of stem cells isolated from infantile hemangioma
	Kenta Nakamura Medical School: University of California, San Francisco Sponsors: Dr. Daniel Lowenstein Host Institution: University of California, San Francisco Preceptor: Bruce Conklin, MD Research area: Identify and confirm the expression of specific candidate GPCRs involved in the directed migration of human iPS cells during differentiation
	Leah Rosenberg Medical School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine Sponsor: Dr. Eric Adler Host Institution: Columbia Preceptors: Karina Davidson, PhD; Daichi Shimbo, MD Research area: Nontraditional mechanisms of myocardial infarction: the effect of anger provocation on endothelial function
	Jordan Sand Medical School: University of Washington Sponsor: Dr. Debra Schwinn Host Institution: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Preceptor: Stuart Orkin, MD Research area: Identification of new factors that contribute to OS progression and metastasis development
	Allison Schulman Medical School: Cornell University Sponsor: Dr. Morton Bogdonoff Host Institution: Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Preceptor: Yuman Fong, MD Research area: Herpes simplex virus administration in a mouse model of arterial restonosis
	Derin Tugal Medical School: New York Medical College Sponsor: Dr. Thomas Hintze Host Institution: Brigham & Women's Hospital Preceptor: Piero Anversa, MD Research area: The role of SMYD3 in human cardiac progenitor cell (CPC) function
	Jason Wu Medical School: University of Toledo Sponsor: Dr. Christopher Cooper Host Institution: MIT Preceptor: Elazer Edelman, MD, PhD Research area: Efficacy between local and systemic delivery of anti-coagulation therapy in preventing thrombosis