AWARDS
Klaus Ley
Scientific Award of the European Society for Microcirculation (Abbott Microcirculation Award), 1986
Award “Medizinische Grundlagenforschung” (Basic Medical Research), Smith-Kline-Beecham Forundation, 1992
Finalist, American Heart Association Basic Science Prize, 1998
Annual Gelber Lecturer, Baylor College of Medicine, 2000
Kurt Anderson Lecture, University of Texas, Galveston, 2001
Awards Won by Trainees
Markus Sperandio
Travel Award of the European Society of Microcirculation to attend the World-Congress of Microcirculation in Sydney, August 2001.
Travel Award of the Microcirculatory Society to attend the World-Congress of Microcirculation in Sydney, August 2001.
Special Award from the German Society of Microcirculation and Vascular Biology. Annual meeting, Frankfurt, Germany 12/ 2001.
2006 European Society for Microcirculation Van Leeuwenhoek Award
Erik Kunkel
Society for Microcirculation Travel Award, Aug-1996
American Physiological Society Caroline tum Suden Award, 1998
UVA School of Medicine-Michael J. Peach Outstanding Graduate Student Apr-1997
Unsu Jung
Microcirculatory Society Curt A. Wiederhielm Award, Mar-2001
Yuqing Huo
New Investigator Award from American Heart Association, May 11, 2001.
Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from American Heart Association, July 1, 2001.
Young Investigator Award from Cardiovascular Section of American Physiological Society, April 21, 2002.
Scientist Development Award (SDG) from the AHA in 2004.
Jessica Dunne
AAI-Huang Foundation Trainee Achievement Award from the American Association of Immunologists, 2001
Brad Forlow
NRSA Selectins and Integrins in Efficient Leukocyte Adhesion NIH 7/01/00-6/30/02
David Simpson
Virginia Engineering Foundation Undergraduate Student Award 2003 (only one student in entire school)
Finalist, undergraduate senior thesis competition 2003 (1 of 13)
Winner of the 2003 undergraduate thesis research competition ($500), May 1, 2003, for the presentation
“CXCR6-positive T Cells Display Extralymphoid Homing”
Michael Smith
Honorable Mention, Michael Peach Award of the UVA School of Medicine 2003 (1 of 6)
Human Frontier Science Program Long-Term Fellowship (www.hfsp.org), 2005-2008
L. William Ballard, Jr. Fellowship, University of Virginia School of Engineering, 2003-2004
Tim Olson
Robert M. Berne Trainee Achievement Award 2005
Maggie Morris
JDRF Postdoctoral Fellowship, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for approximately $96,000 total, awarded June 2004.
Travel Award, JDRF, $1125 for travel to the FOCIS meeting (held June 1-5 in San Francisco, CA), awarded 2/6/2006
Tracy Deem
One of the 5 finalists for the Junior Investigator Award for Women at the 2006 ATVB meeting. abstract: Dendritic Cells Preferentially Accumulate in Atherosclerotic Lesions
American Heart Association Mid-Atlantic chapter postdoctoral fellowship "Role of monocyte subsets in mediating atherosclerosis", 2006-2008
John Pickard
Benjamin W. Zweifach Graduate Student Travel Award
Awarding Entity: Microcirculatory Society
Abstract/Talk/Poster: Micro-PIV measurement of flow fields around adherent leukocytes
Award received on 4/1/2006
Joerg Reutershan
Robert M. Berne Trainee Achievement Award 2006
Fresenius award 2006
Elena Galkina
AHA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for two years (total $70000) from 07/2005 to 07/2007.
AHA Scienist Development Grant "Acetylated LDL uptake alters B cell functions and homing into aorta of normal and atherosclerotic mice" 2007-2010
Pfizer Global Research and Developmental Scholarship, Keystone Conference on the Cellular Biology of Atherosclerosis ($1000) 2005
AAI Junior Faculty Travel Award for the AAI 2007 Annual Meeting 2007
Matt Stark
Peach award 2006: finalist in Molecular Medicine
William Yang
Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, one of seven selected in Virginia, 2005-2006
UVA Faculty Senate David A. Harrison III Undergraduate Research Award, 2005-2006
UVA Lawrence and Ella Mae Quarles Scholarship, 2004-2005
UVA SEAS Class of 1986 Scholarship, 2003-2004
W. Sheldon Rodman Scholar, UVA Honors Engineering, 2002-2006
Virginia Engineering Foundation Scholarship, 2002-2006
APWU E.C. Hallbeck Memorial Scholarship, 2002-2006
National Merit Scholar, 2002
2006 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship for his proposal "Biomimcry of leukocytes improves contrast enhanced ultrasound microbubble adhesion efficiency"
NSF honorable mention for a similar proposal
Finalist, 2006 Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium, UVA SEAS
NSF graduate fellowship, 2007
Marc Schwartz
Finalist, 2006 Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium, UVA SEAS
Finalist, 2006 Undergraduate Research Symposium (UVA)
Virginia Engineering Foundation: Outstanding Student Award 2006 (only two per year)
Daniel Chang
UVA Distinguished Majors Symposium in Chemistry 2006, finalist
Merck Index Award for a high level of performance in Chemistry
Graduated with Highest Distinction
Alexander Zarbock
Young Investigator Award of the Gesellschaft für Mikrozirkulation 2006
Microcirculatory Society's August Krogh Young Investigator Travel Award for his abstract entitled "Dual signaling pathways control LFA-1 mediated rolling and arrest on ICAM-1". Award presented during EB 07 in Washington DC
Emily Smith
Keystone Symposia scholarship for up to $1000 to help defray travel and lodging expenses associated with her attendance at the upcoming meeting on The Macrophage: Homeostasis, Immunoregulation and Disease, Apr 11 - Apr 16, 2007, in Copper Mountain Resort in Copper Mountain, Colorado.
Kristina Little
Travel Grant from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Virginia, to attend the Human Plasma Proteomics meeting in Seattle, 2007
