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Surgical Investigator Award Past Recipients

2015 Recipients

AATS Foundation Surgical Investigator Award

Marcelo Cypel, MD, MSc
University of Toronto
“Immunoisolation of Lung Grafts Using Endothelial Nano-barrier During Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion”

AATS Foundation Surgical Investigator Award

Stephen H McKellar, MD, MSc
University of Utah
“Inhibition of fatty acid oxidation to prevent right ventricular failure and promote right ventricular recovery”

AATS Foundation Surgical Investigator Award

Neel R. Sodha, MD

Alpert Medical School at Brown University

“Molecular Mechanisms of Neurologic Injury after Cardiopulmonary Bypass”

2014 Recipients

AATS Foundation Surgical Investigator Award

Felix Fernandez, MD
Emory University
"Pilot Study to Integrate Patient Reported Outcomes into the Society of Thoracic Surgeons General Thoracic Surgery Database"

AATS Foundation Surgical Investigator Award

Danielle Gottlieb, MD
Columbia University
"Transcriptional Profiling of Human Fetal Heart Valve Growth"

AATS Foundation Surgical Investigator Award

Mark Onaitis, MD
Duke University
"Drugging the K-Ras-Type II Cell Interaction in Lung Adenocarcinoma"

AATS Foundation Surgical Investigator Award

Brendon Stiles, MD
Weill Cornell Medical College
"Mechanistic effects of ART1-induced mono-ADP ribosylation on progression of non-small cell lung cancer"

AATS Foundation Surgical Investigator Award

Bo Yang, MD
University of Michigan
"Modeling vascular smooth muscle cell dysfunction by creating NOTCH1 mutation in human induced pleuripotent stem (iPS) cells"