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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, 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 total, awarded June 2004.
Travel Award, JDRF for travel to the FOCIS meeting (held June 1-5 in San Francisco, CA), awarded 2/6/2006
ADA Junior Faculty Grant 2011-2013

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
Invited talk at Asilomar IEEE conference 2007

Joerg Reutershan

Robert M. Berne Trainee Achievement Award 2006
Fresenius Award 2006

Elena Galkina

AHA Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for two years 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 2005
AAI Junior Faculty Travel Award for the AAI 2007 Annual Meeting 2007

Matt Stark

University of Virginia 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
Runner-up award of the Hermann-Rein-Preis. This award is made by the German Society for Microcirculation and recognizes Alexander's paper "Spleen tyrosine kinase Syk is necessary for E-selectin-induced αLß2 integrin-mediated rolling on intercellular adhesion molecule-1". Awarded October 6, 2007.
2008 AAI – Invitrogen Trainee Achievement Award, presented at EB 08, April 2008, San Diego.
Emmy Noether Stipend of the German Research Council to pursue his studies after he returns to Germany. This is the most prestigious award the German government gives to young scientists and will give Alexander the freedom to pursue his research interests, 2008-2013.
Research Award, Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung 2008-2010
2010 DGAI Forschungsstipendium der Else Kroener Fresenius Stiftung

Emily Smith

Keystone Symposia scholarship for up 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
Three year individual predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association
2008 student poster award for Bioinformatics at the HUPO (Human Proteome Organization)
2010 student travel award to HUPO (Human Proteome Organization).

Elisa Ferrante

Zweifach Student Travel Award of the Microcirculatory Society 2008.
Third place for Biological & Biomedical Sciences Paper Presentations at the Huskey Symposium, University of Virginia 2008.

Sibylle von Vietinghoff

Two year postdoctoral stipend from the German Government (DFG)
2010 AAI Abstract Trainee Award

Prithu Sundd

Two year individual postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association, 2009-2011
2010 Pappenheimer Postdoctoral Travel Award from the Microcirculatory Society
Scientist Development Grant “Dual-color dynamic footprinting reveals mechanisms of leukocyte rolling and arrest during inflammation” from the AHA, 2011-2015

Yoshihiro Kuwano

Two year postdoctoral fellowship from the Japanese Government (JSPS)

Anna Bertram

Postdoctoral fellowship by Jackstaedt-Stiftung, Germany

Joshua Rychak

Joshua Rychak PhD, Vice President of Research and Development of Targeson, was selected as one of The Daily Transcript’s San Diego Young Influentials 2010

Ekaterina “Katya” Koltsova

Two year individual postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association, 2010-2012
AAI travel award 2011 for her abstract “Antigen Presentation By Dendritic Cells In The Aortic Wall Triggers T Helper Immune Responses”

Craig Lefort

UCSD Immunology Training Grant 2011-2012
Selected for oral presentation at Integrin Gordon Conference, May 2011

Sara McArdle

Stipend from UCSD Interfaces Graduate Program 2010-2011

Stipend from UCSD NHLBI Training Grant on Integrative Bioengineering of Heart, Vessels and Blood 2011-12

Two year individual predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association, 2011-2013 “A novel system for in vivo imaging the effect of PF4 on Leukocytes in Atherosclerosis”.

Iftach Shaked

Two year individual postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association, 2011-2013 “The role of galectin-3 binding protein in atherosclerosis”