Harry Goldblatt Award for New Investigators

Award Recipients

2024 David M. Patrick, MD, PhD
2023 Jessica Faulkner, PhD, FAHA
2022 Camilla Ferreira Wenceslau, PhD, MS, FAHA
2021 Stephen P. Juraschek, MD, PhD
2020 Annet Kirabo, DVM, MSc, PhD, FAHA
2019 Francine Marques, PhD
2018 Amy C. Arnold, PhD, FAHA

Eligibility Criteria

All applicants for the award must be members of the Council on Hypertension by the time of application submission. If you need to become an AHA Professional Member, you should do so before submitting your abstract and award application materials. Join or renew today!
Applicant must be active in research and still be in training as an undergraduate or pre-doctoral student, or be active in research and within 10 years of completing medical fellowship (or residency as NIH states, MDs would be Fellows for 3-6 years of the 7-10), terminal degree or highest certificate (e.g. MSc, PhD), as of the award application date.
Notwithstanding the above, the AHA Officers have the discretion to determine eligibility for the award in extraordinary circumstances when there is an issue relating to AHA policy or positions or other potentially controversial issue relating to the positioning or perception of the AHA.
Previous awardees are not eligible to re-enter the competition in subsequent years.
Each recipient of AHA council-sponsored awards, regardless of award category, is eligible to receive only one council-sponsored award each year per AHA scientific meeting.

How to Apply/Required Documents

The following items must be submitted through the Council Awards Application System for consideration for this award:

A full Curriculum vitae, including all publications (abstracts not necessary).
Reprints of three first-authored publications by the applicant.
A letter of nomination from a Council member detailing overall contributions of the applicant to hypertension and cardiovascular disease

Members of the Council on Hypertension Awards Committee are not eligible to apply, be nominated, or write support letters for applicants.

Visit the ProposalCentral Council Awards Applicant Instructions page to apply or submit a nomination.

Once logged in, you may apply for the Hypertension Scientific Sessions Awards for Early Career Investigators and select the HTN Harry Goldblatt Award from the award drop-down list.