Mary Klotman, MD, chair of the department, and Scott Palmer, MD, vice chair for research, announced the recipients of the 2014 Chair's Research Award, which funds junior investigators who are making the transition to becoming independent scientists prior to their acquisition of extramural funding.
Recipients of the award, and the titles of their research projects:
Dennis Abraham, MD
Medical Instructor, Division of Cardiology
TREK-1 in fibroblast differentiation and cardiac fibrosis development
Juliessa Pavon, MD
Medical Instructor, Division of Geriatrics
Adherence to venous thromboembolism prophylaxis guidelines in hospitalized elders
Lindsay Rein, MD
Fellow, Hematology/Oncology
β--arrestin2 and the disease course of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and myelofibrosis