Early Innovators Spotlight Sessions
Pre-Sessions Symposia & Early Career Day: November 15, 2024
Scientific Sessions: November 16–18, 2024
McCormick Place Convention Center | Chicago, Illinois
Scientific Sessions: November 16–18, 2024
McCormick Place Convention Center | Chicago, Illinois
Meet the next new Innovators at #AHA24
The American Heart Association’s Early Innovators Spotlight is a pilot program providing AHA early career grant awardees an opportunity to share their science on a global stage and help them become more involved with the AHA.
Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship awardees will present their science, providing you with a unique chance to learn about their projects and engage in a discussion.
Join us in CardioTalk Theater in the Science and Technology Hall Saturday through Monday. Session information is below.
AHA Early Career Innovators
Saturday, November 16, 2024
9:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
CardioTalk Theater, Science and Technology Hall
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 9:45 a.m. | Gut microbial N-acyl serinols regulate obesity-driven heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by GPR119 signaling Sumita Dutta, PhD, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 9:56 a.m. | Sexual Dimorphisms in NLRP3 Signaling in Right Ventricular Failure Rafael Sobrano Fais, PhD, National Jewish Health Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:07 a.m. | Notch Pathway Mutations Acts Synergistically with Maternal Hyperglycemia to Induce Cardiac Defects Sunyoung Kim, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:18 a.m. | Novel antithrombotic therapies: Targeting different approaches to improve treatment of cardiovascular disease Livia Stanger, University of Michigan Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:29 a.m. | Dissecting the relative importance of lysosomal versus cytoplasmic lipolysis in adipose tissue during obesity Yu-Sheng Yeh, PhD, RD, University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:40 a.m. | GPR55-Osteopontin Pathway: A Facilitator of Atherosclerosis Development Keman Xu, PhD, Temple University Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:51 a.m. | Luminal BSH Overexpression Recapituates Obstructive Sleep Apnea-Associated Atherosclerosis Amulya Lingaraju, PhD, UCSD Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Saturday, November 16, 2024
1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
CardioTalk Theater, Science and Technology Hall
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 1:30 p.m. | Impact of Sex on Recurrent Stroke and Poststroke Medication Nonadherence: a Biethnic Population-Based Prospective Study Chen Chen, MPH, University of Michigan Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 1:41 p.m. | Adverse Obesity-Related Cardiometabolic Outcomes of Circadian Misalignment in Youth Natasha Morales-Ghinaglia, Penn State University College of Medicine Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 1:52 p.m. | Use of Large Language Models to Scale Training for Rheumatic Heart Disease Screening Among Primary Care Nurses in Uganda Scott Wirth, MD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 2:03 p.m. | MRI of Epicardial Adipose Tissue in Metabolic Heart Disease John Echols, University of Virginia Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 2:14 p.m. | M3HF: Using Multimodal, Multinational, and Multisite data to advance the prognostic prediction of Heart Failure Yikuan Li, MS, Northwestern University Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 2:25 p.m. | Dissecting Causal Relationships Between Desmosomal Deficiency and Inflammation In Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy Erika Joana Gutierrez Lara, PhD, University of California-San Diego Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 12:36 p.m. | Role of Thymidine Phosphorylase in COVID-19-associated Inflammation and Thrombosis Renat Roytenberg, Marshall University School of Medicine Predoctoral Fellowship |
Saturday, November 16, 2024
3:15 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
CardioTalk Theater, Science and Technology Hall
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 3:15 p.m. | MicroRNA-342-3p in acute myocardial infarction and angiogenesis Anurag Jamaiyar, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 3:26 p.m. | Role of von Willebrand factor in linking respiratory tract infection and onset of stroke Rakeshkumar Patel, PhD, The University of Iowa Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 3:37 p.m. | The role of CSF1 signaling in repair and remodeling of the infarcted heart Shuaibo Huang, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 3:48 p.m. | Metallic Bioresorbable Flow Diverters for the Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms Alexander Oliver, Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 3:59 p.m. | Role of RNA Helicases in Atherosclerosis Elena Rodriguez Sanchez, PhD, UCLA Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 4:10 p.m. | Elucidating Cardiac Fibroblast Activation at Single-cell Resolution Xuekun Wu Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 4:21 p.m. | Mechanisms of HDAC8 modulation of cardiomyocyte relaxation Timothy Jones, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Sunday, November 17, 2024
9:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
CardioTalk Theater, Science and Technology Hall
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 9:45 a.m. | Pathways Reversing Protein Import Clogging on the Mitochondrial Surface Gargi Mishra, SUNY Upstate Medical University Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 9:56 a.m. | Non-nutritive sweeteners and drug transport at the placenta Laura Danner, Medical College of Wisconsin Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:07 a.m. | Role of PDE10A-mediated cyclic nucleotide signaling in pathological cardiac remodeling and dysfunction Si (Vivian) Chen, PhD, Univeristy of Rochester Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:18 a.m. | The role of pyruvate dehydrogenase in cardiac hypertrophy Ashish Toshniwal, PhD, University of Utah Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:29 a.m. | Deficiency of Smooth Muscle ADAR1 Exacerbates Vascular Remodeling and Pulmonary Hypertension Yunhye Kim, PhD, Boston Children's Hospital Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:40 a.m. | MicroRNA-1282 as a Cis-Antisense Regulator of Angiogenesis in Diabetic CLI Madhur Sachan, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:51 a.m. | Integrative structural and functional image analysis for enhanced risk stratification in left ventricular noncompaction Ashish Manohar, PhD, Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Sunday, November 17, 2024
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
CardioTalk Theater, Science and Technology Hall
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 3:30 p.m. | Expanding brown adipose tissue through manipulating Pdgfrß+ mural cells Shaolei Xiong, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 3:41 p.m. | Developing interpretable algorithms for accurate early detection and prediction of cardiovascular diseases Ryuichiro Yagi, MD, MPH, Brigham and Women's Hospital Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 3:52 p.m. | Observational and genetic associations of chronotype with Life's Essential 8 and cardiovascular disease risk Sina Kianersi, PhD, DVM, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 4:03 p.m. | Sterile inflammation and cardiovascular complications during pregnancy Nataliia Hula. PhD, Loma Linda University Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 4:14 p.m. | Characterizing a novel mechanism that contributes to the development of atherosclerosis Noah Steinfeld, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 4:25 p.m. | New insights in extracellular matrix remodeling in aortic stenosis Meriem Bkhache, PhD, Temple Univeristy Postdoctoral Fellowship |
Monday, November 18
9:45 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
CardioTalk Theater, Science and Technology Hall
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 9:45 a.m. | Investigating Pluridemensional Signialing of Vasoactive G Protein-Coupled Receptors Preston Anderson, Duke University Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 9:56 a.m. | Blocking tubular cell cycle induces protective metabolic changes in chronic kidney disease Safaa Hammoud, PhD, Washington University in St Louis Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:07 a.m. | Investigating a novel NaV1.5 N-terminal microprotein arising from alternative polyadenylation of SCN5A Nathan Witmer, University of Iowa Predoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:18 a.m. | The regulatory role of hepatic glycogen in lipid metabolism Bichen Zhang, PhD, University of California San Diego Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:29 a.m. | Coronary artery disease locus 7q36.1 regulates a flow-sensitive NOS3 enhancer and atherosclerosis in vivo Jiayu Zhu, PhD, University of Chicago Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:40 a.m. | Oxytocin receptor in the spinal neuraxial modulation of ventricular excitability Abigail Hellman, PhD, University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Fellowship |
| 10:51 a.m. | Regulatory Pathways of Autophagy Machineries in Cardiomyopathy Asma Boukhalfa, PhD, Tufts Medical Center Postdoctoral Fellowship |