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"