2013 Presentation Winners
Oral Presentation Winners
| Top prize - $500 | Sravanti Kusuma | Engineered clinically-relevant vascular networks from human pluripotent stem cells |
| 2nd Place (tied) - $200 | Michael Silverman | Coronary Artery Calcium and Cardiovascular Events in Diabetes - Implications for Primary Prevention Therapies: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) |
| 2nd Place (tied) - $200 | Mark Ranek | Protein Kinase G Regulates Cardioprotection through Destruction |
| 3rd Place - $100 | Mohamed Elshazly | Non-HDL cholesterol, guideline targets, and population percentiles for secondary prevention in a clinical sample of 1.3 million adults |
Poster Presentation Winners
Clinical Science/Epidemiology
| Top Prize - $200 | Grant Chow | Hemodynamic effects of cardiac resynchronization therapy in the immediate post-infarct period: a canine model |
| 2nd Place - $150 | Kerunne Ketiogetswe | Adiponectin is Associated with Subclinical Coronary Atherosclerosis in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) |
| 3rd Place - $100 | Deeptanker DeMazumder | Entropy X of cardiac rhythm predicts mortality in patients with heart failure |
Basic Science
| Top Prize - $200 | Peter Anderson | Precardiac Deletion of Numb and Numblike Identifies Renewing Cardiac Progenitors and their Microenvironment |
| 2nd Place - $150 | Peter Rainer | Targeted Inhibition of Cardiomyocyte-Transforming Growth Factor beta induces a protective Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response and prevents from Left Ventricular Rupture after Myocardial Infarction |
| 3rd Place - $100 | Kinya Seo | cGMP-PKG modulation of myocyte mechanical response to stretch: Role of TRPC6 channel modulation in dystrophic heart failure |
2012 Presentation Winners
Oral Presentation Winners
| Top prize - $600 | Jonathan Kirk | Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Restores the Myofilament Response to Calcium via a Novel Mechanism |
| 2nd Place - $400 | Seth Martin | Bias in Friedewald Estimation of LDL Cholesterol in a Clinical Sample of 1.3 Million Adults |
| Award - $100 | Dong Lee | A novel PDE9A inhibitor (PF?9613) and PDE9A KO mouse reveal a potential role of PDE9A in cardiac hypertrophy and function |
| Award - $100 | Deeptankar DeMazumder | A novel strategy for predicting sudden cardiac death in patients with heart failure receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy |
Poster Presentation Winners
Clinical Science / Epidemiology
| Top prize - $250 | Mariana Lazo | NT-proBNP and Incident Diabetes |
| 2nd Place - $150 | Birju Patel | Independent effects of risk factors and treatment type on subclinical atherosclerosis: Carotid intima-media thickness progression in the community |
| 3rd Place - $50 | Irfan Khurram | Image Intensity Ratio, A Novel Magnetic Resonance Based Measure for Quantification of Left Atrial Fibrosis Correlates with the Distribution of Atrial Bipolar Voltage |
Basic Science
| Top prize - $250 | Alice Ho | Mitochondrial Romk Channel Plays a Role in Cytoprotection as the Pore Subunit of Mitokatp |
| 2nd Place - $150 | Viola Kooij | Profilin-1, a novel mediator of cardiac contractility dysfunction |
| 3rd Place - $50 | Guangshuo Zhu | cGMP-PKG upregulates PGC1alpha and improves cardiac function in advanced cardiac hypertrophy independently of RGS2 |
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