06/03/2026
Congratulations to these outstanding Department of Medicine faculty and trainees on their recent grants.👏🎉
Timothy Anderson, MD, MS, who received an AHA Bridge Career Development Award, “Initiation of Emerging Preventative Therapies Following Cardiovascular Hospitalizations.”
Cary Boyd-Shiwarski, MD, PhD, who received an NIDDK R01, “The molecular and physiologic effects of calcineurin inhibitors on WNK body bimolecular condensates.”
Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD, and John Kirkwood, MD, who received an NCI UG1, “NCI NCTN-Network Lead Academic Participating Site at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center.”
Tomasz Brzoska, MPharm, PhD, who received an AHA Career Development Award, “From Hemolysis to Thrombosis: Mechanistic and Therapeutic Dissection of Fibrinolytic Dysfunction in Sickle Cell Disease.”
Stephen Chan, MD, PhD, who received a Harrington Scholar-Innovator Award, “New Approach to Treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension, a Fatal Lung Disease.”
Malamo Countouris, MD, MS, who received an AHA Bridge Career Development Award, “Phenotyping Later Life Left Ventricular Remodeling among Women with a History of Preeclampsia.”
Rolando Cuevas, PhD, who received an AHA Career Development Award, “Telomerase modulates KLF4 pioneer-dependent cell reprogramming in vascular disease.”
Partha Dutta, DVM, PhD, who received an AHA Bridge Career Development Award, “Understanding the crosstalk between microglia and neurons after myocardial infarction.”
Nadine Hempel, PhD, who received an NCI R01, “Defining the impact of detachment sensing proteins in ovarian cancer metastasis.”
Sae Jang, MD, who received an AHA Career Development Award, “Investigating Capillary Biomechanics in Diabetic Microvascular Disease.”
MD Saifur Rahman Khan, PhD, who received an NIDDK R01, “Mechanistic dissection of the role of CERS2 and its risk allele in T2D pathogenesis.”
Cindy St. Hilaire, PhD, who received an AHA SFRN, “Center for Aortic Valve Disease Prediction and Integrated Research.”
Jeremy Tilstra, MD, PhD, who received an NIAID R01, “Evaluating the Parenchymal IFN response in Lupus Nephritis.”
Daria Van Tyne, PhD, who received an NIAID P01, “Pitt Center for Accelerating Phage Therapy (P-CAPT).”
Yu-Sheng Yeh, PhD, RD, who received an AHA Career Development Award, “Autophagy-lysosomal lipid metabolism in adipose tissue during acute and chronic metabolic stress.”
Xiangyu Zhang, PhD, who received an NHLBI R01, “Manipulation of leucine uptake, sensing, and metabolism in macrophages as a diagnostic and therapeutic strategy in atherosclerosis.”
