NIH Predoctoral Training Grant in Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Diseases (T32)        

The grant, known as a T32 training grant, supports broad and fundamental research to help ensure that a diverse and highly trained workforce is available in the future to assume leadership roles as independent scientists in academic institutions.  Dr. S. Jamal Mustafa serves as the Principal Investigator of this project, and Dr. Richard Dey serves as the Co-Director.

This pre-doctoral interdisciplinary training grant provides stipends, tuition and health insurance expenses for Ph.D. students conducting heart, lung and vascular disease research.  Students are paired with grant-funded faculty mentors to conduct research relevant to coronary artery disease, asthma, hypertension, cardiac failure, inflammation, and obesity-related lung and vascular disorders.  These are topics that are directly related to the health problems associated with West Virginia’s population.  Our goal is to train the next generation of research scholars who will have expertise and interests aligned with such disease issues.  

Students supported on this training grant for 2008 - 2009 are:  Lindsey Carrell, Kimberly Miede, Mariam Sharif-Sanyani and Alison Kohan (through July 1, 2009).

Students supported on this training grant for 2009 - 2010 are: Walter Baseler, Adam Goodwill, Megan James, Katrina Sites and Ernest young.

For more information on the Research Training Program in the Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Sciences, click here.