PHA GRANT WINNERS – 2019
Aldrighetti Research Award for Young Investigators
Ke Yuan, Ph.D.
SDF1 Signaling: A Master Regulator of Mural Cell-Dependent Vascular Remodeling in PAH
Term: Dec. 1, 2019-Nov. 30, 2020
Associate Scientific Researcher and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital Division of Pulmonary Medicine
PHA Robyn J. Barst, M.D., Pediatric PH Research and Mentoring Grant in Honor of Jackson Wall
Jason Boehme, M.D.
Pulmonary Vascular Smooth Muscle Metabolic Reprogramming in Congenital Heart Disease
Term: Dec. 1, 2019-Nov. 30, 2020
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
PHA/ATS Research Fellowships
Rahul Kumar, Ph.D.
Crosstalk Between Bone Marrow Compartment and Inflamed Lungs in Hypoxic Pulmonary Hypertension
Term: Dec. 1, 2019–Nov. 30, 2020
Associate Professional Researcher, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center at University of California, San Francisco
Olivier Boucherat, Ph.D.
Forkhead-box FOX) Transcription Factors in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
Term: Dec. 1, 2016–Nov. 30, 2018
Professor, Pneumology, L’Université Laval
Nadine Al-Naamani, M.D., M.S.
Effect of obesity on treatment response in pulmonary arterial hypertension
Term: Dec. 1, 2017-Nov. 30, 2019
Instructor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania