PHA GRANT WINNERS – 2019

Aldrighetti Research Award for Young Investigators

Ke Yuab

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