AHA Awards Pre-Doctoral Fellowships to Graduate Students

 Graduate students at the University of Kentucky have been awarded research grants totaling over $80,000 by the American Heart Association.

These grants will fund three graduate student researchers within the Department of Physiology and Saha Cardiovascular Research Center in studying apporaches to cardiovascular dieseases and health.

The grants are:

A $26,844 grant was awarded to Brooke Ahern, graduate student in Dr. John Satin’s lab, Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, to study and test the overall hypothesis that Rad is a negative modulator of calcium current through the LTCC, which can be removed through phosphorylation.

A $26,844 grant was awarded to Brandon Farmer, graduate student in Dr. Lance Johnson’s lab, Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, to study how the E4 isofom of apolipoprotein E, the strongest genetic risk factor of Alzheimer’s disease, causes a state of lipid mismanagement in astrocytes.

A $26,844 grant was awarded to David Henson, graduate student in Dr. Vincent Venditto’s lab, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, to study how telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) contributes to the development of atherosclerosis.

Congratulations to these students and their accomplishments on receiving these awards!