The Student Research Fellowship, established by the SVS Foundation, stimulates laboratory and clinical vascular research by undergraduate college students and medical school students registered at universities in the United States and Canada. Each award consists of a $3,000 student stipend and a two-year complimentary subscription to the Journal of Vascular Surgery®.
Twelve college and medical school students were named at the 2013 Vascular Annual Meeting.
Elizabeth Chen
Yale School of Medicine
Sponsor: Alan Dardik, MD
Project title: Nanoparticles Covalently Linked to Bovine Pericardial Patches: A novel implantable system for sustained in vivo drug delivery
Trit Garg
Stanford Medical School
Sponsor: Matthew Mell, MD
Project title: Adherence to PostOperative Surveillance Guidelines and Outcomes After Endo- vascular Aortic Aneurysm Repair Among Medicare Beneficiaries
Catherine Go
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Sponsor: Rabih Chaer, MD
Project title: Long-term Outcomes After Carotid Endarterectomy
Anthony Grieff
University of Washington
Sponsor: Alec Clowes, MD
Project title: Role of p27Kip1-838C>A SNP in Restenosis
Michael Harlander-Locke
University of California Los Angeles
Sponsor: Peter Lawrence, MD
Project title: Low-Frequency Disease Databases: A Necessary Alternative Method
Neil Huben
Omaha Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Sponsor: Jason Michael Johanning, MD
Project title: Lower Extremity Muscle Morphology and Gait Function in Femoropopliteal PAD Patients
Gregory Leya
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Sponsor: Louis Nguyen, MD
Project title: Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Silver Wound Dressing in Lower Extremity Wounds
Emily Nosova
UCSF/San Francisco Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center
Sponsor: Marlene Grenon, MD
Project title: Evaluating the Severity of Peripheral Arterial Disease and Associated Inflammatory Markers: What Role Do n-3 Fatty Acids Play?
Scott Robinson
Emory University
Sponsor: Luke Brewster, MD
Project title: Enhancing the Regenerative Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Targeted Therapy in Patients with Critical Limb Ischemia
Grace Ruth Thompson
University of Florida
Sponsor: Scott Berceli, MD
Project title: Secondary Flow Characteristics and Hemodialysis Fistula Maturation
Kaisen Yao
University of Iowa
Sponsor: William Sharp, MD
Project title: Pregnancy as a Risk Factor for Hyperglycemia-Induced Vasculopathy
Helen Lin Yuan
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Sponsor: Vivian Gahtan, MD
Project title: The Pleiotropic Effect of Short-term Statin Administration on TSP-1 Induced Signaling in VSMCs