AHPBA Fellowship

Andrew Tosdevin from Ethicon and presents the 2004 AHPBA Research Fellowship Award to Jennifer Irani from Brigham and Women's Hospital at the AHPBA 2005 meeting.

The American Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association is pleased to announce three AHPBA Research Awards, an AHPBA Physiology/Biology Research Grant, supported by Ethicon, Inc., an AHPBA Oncology Research Grant, supported by Sanofi Aventis, and an AHPBA Surgical Technology Assessment Research Grant, supported by Covidien. The purpose of these awards is to provide the opportunity for a resident or fellow to spend one year of full time research under the mentorship of an AHPBA member. Residents or fellows who have completed at least two years of post-graduate training in a surgical discipline are eligible to apply. The research can be clinical or basic science, but must focus on the liver, pancreas, or biliary tree. The amount of the awards is $30,000 each. Application deadline is July 31, 2008.

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Past Fellowship Recipients

2001

Ethicon HPB

Nicole Chandler, MD

Overcoming Chemoresistance in Human Pancreatic Cancer

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

2002

Ethicon HPB

Charles M. Vollmer, MD

Characterization of a Novel Translocation Breakpoint in Pancreatic Cancer

University of Toronto

2003

Ethicon HPB

Shiva Sarraf-Yazdi, MD

Anti-angiogenic Therapy of Murine Liver Metastases by Tie2 Inhibition

Duke University Medical Center

2004

Ethicon HPB

Jennifer Lynn Irani, MD

The Role of CEACAM6 in Pancreatic Cancer Invasion

Brigham and Women's Hospital

2005

Sanofi-aventis HPB Oncology

Jon Dorfman, MD

Positron Emission Tomography to Monitor HSV-2 Viral Oncolysis

Massachusetts General Hospital

2005

Ethicon HPB Physiology/Biology

Sunil K. Geevarghese, MD

The Role of Mitochondrial Calcium Management in Hepatic Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury following Syngeneic Rat Liver Transplantation

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

2006

Sanofi-aventis HPB Oncology

Jon Cardinal, MD

Crossroad in Cancer Signaling: Regulation of Human iNOS Expression by the WNT B-Catenin Path

University of Pittsburgh

2006

Ethicon HPB Physiology/Biology

Luis Garcia, MD

Targeted Inhibition of VEGF Prevents Development of Tumor Antigen-Specific T-Cell Tolerance in the Murine Liver

The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

2007

Ethicon HPB Physiology/Biology

Lee Ocuin, MD

Immune Activation of Human Liver Dendritic Cells

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

2007

Sanofi-anventis HPB Oncology

Bedabrata Sarkar, MD

Characterization of Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells

University of Michigan Medical School

2007

Covidien Surgical Technology Assessment

Lia Roque Assumpcao, MD

Application of Novel, High Resolution, and Freehand Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging in Liver Surgery

Johns Hopkins University Hospital