PHA Proof of Concept Award winners

Through this co-funded partnership, this grant’s target audience is investigators who are interested in pulmonary hypertension research.

This program supports new research projects that are in the early exploratory and developmental stages and have the potential to lead to advances in the scientific understanding of PH. Proposed projects result in preliminary data that will enable the investigator to apply for support for a larger, hypotheses-driven research project.

As of 2011, PHA has supported 2 researchers through this partnership and we hope to continue to further our understanding of PH by continuing to support such novel efforts in the field.

 2012

Yen-Rei Yu, MD, PhD
“The Role of Resident Monocytes in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension”
January 15, 2013 – January 14, 2014
Duke University School of Medicine, Durham
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Michael Yeager, PhD
“Unfolded Protein Response Confers Apoptosis Resistance and Inflammation in Pulmonary Hypertension”
December 1, 2012 – November 30, 2013
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver
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Guofei Zhou, PhD
“AMPK and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension”
December 1, 2012 – November 30, 2013
University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago
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 2011

Mary Beth Brown, PhD, PT, ATC
“Clinical Investigation of a Daily Walking Program plus L-Arginine Supplementation for the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension”
October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2012
Indiana University, Indianapolis
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Ferhaan Ahmad, MD, PhD
“Applying Genomics as a Springboard to Novel Mechanisms of Pulmonary Hypertension”
October 1, 2011 – September 30, 2012
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
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