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| Yingjia Chen, PhD | Anurag Jamaiyar, PhD |
Yingjia Chen, PhD, of the Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, and Anurag Jamaiyar, PhD, of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, were awarded the American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowship.
This two-year award, which seeks to enhance the training of postdoctoral applicants who are not yet independent, supports projects aimed at clearly answering an investigative question in cardiovascular, cerebrovascular or metabolic research.
With this funding, Chen will explore the role of intestinal bile acid molecules in contributing to the cardiac benefits of bariatric surgery through her project “Bariatric Surgery-Upregulated Small Intestinal Bile Acid Improves Type 2 Diabetes and Exerts Cardioprotection.” As a postdoctoral research fellow in the Laboratory for Surgical and Metabolic Research, she focuses her broader work on how environmental factors affect human health and diseases.
Jamaiyar’s project, “MicroRNA-342-3p in Acute Myocardial Infarction and Angiogenesis,” won two awards at the AHA conference in Philadelphia the previous year, and he will build on his research with the Postdoctoral Fellowship. With the funding, Jamaiyar, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Feinberg Lab, will continue to explore the effects microRNAs have on both physiological and pathological angiogenesis.
The American Heart Association is the nation’s oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. The AHA has invested more than $5 billion in research, making it the largest not-for-profit funding source for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease research next to the federal government.
