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ASCI Young Investigator Awards

American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)

Description

The ASCI Young Investigator Awards program offers one-year grants of $70,000 each to up to five early-career physician-scientists. These Awards are aimed at applicants whose first-time K08 or R01 submissions to the National Institutes of Health were very close to the payline but not funded. The goal of the program is to keep promising young researchers in the academic-medicine pipeline by supporting their work for eventual resubmission to the NIH.

Recipients

2008 Young Investigator Award recipients :

J. David Beckham, M.D.
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Project title
Mechanisms of apoptosis in virus-infected neurons
ASCI mentor
Kenneth L. Tyler

Tae-Hwa Chun, M.D., Ph.D.
University of Michigan Medical School
Project title
3-Dimensional proteolytic regulation of adipose tissue development and function
ASCI mentor
Stephen J. Weiss

Marion Hofmann-Bowman, M.D., Ph.D.
The University of Chicago
Project title
Pro-inflammatory S100A12 in atherosclerosis and acute coronary syndrome
ASCI mentor
Elizabeth M. McNally

Johannes S. Schlondorff, M.D., Ph.D.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Project title
TRPC6 regulation and its role in glomerular pathobiology
ASCI mentor
Martin R. Pollak