Awarded: Aug 01, 2005
$4,455,000 over 3 years
In 2005, 11 junior physician-scientists each received three-year grants of $405,000.
2005 CSDA Grantees
Michelle Asha Albert, M.D., M.P.H.
Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Project: "Black Women's Health Study and Cardiovascular Risk"
Corey Casper, M.D., M.P.H.
University of Washington School of Medicine
Project: "HHV-8 Replication and Progression to Malignancy in Africa"
Sekar Kathiresan, M.D.
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Project: "Osteoprotegrin Pathway Biomarkers, Genes, and CVD"
Jeffrey R. Keefer, M.D., Ph.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Project: "Pharmacological Modulation of Fetal Hemoglobin"
Allison A. King, M.D., M.P.H.
Washington University School of Medicine
Project: "Cognition in Children with Sickle Cell Anemia"
Matthew Mealiffe, M.D.
University of Washington School of Medicine
Project: "K7: A Gene for Hodgkin's Lymphoma Predisposition"
William Pao, M.D., Ph.D.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Project: "Acquired Resistance to Targeted Therapy in Lung Cancer"
Pavan R. Reddy, M.D.
University of Michigan
Project: "Immuno-modulation by Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors"
Neil Shah, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
Project: "Perfecting Targeted Therapy for Human Malignancies"
John J. Strouse, M.D.
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Project: "Cerebral Blood Flow in Sickle Cell Disease"
Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H.
Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Project: "The Impact and Value of Routine HIV Testing in South Africa"