FHS PI and Director, Vasan Ramachandran, M.D., named AHA’s 2021 Distinguished Scientist in General Preventive Medicine
Framingham Heart Study Principal Investigator and Director, Vasan S. Ramachandran, M.D., named the American Heart Association’s 2021 Distinguished Scientist in General Preventive Medicine Per the American Heart Association (AHA) — Dr. Ramachandran was selected for this honor because of the impact of his work on clinical practice in cardiovascular health, significant contributions to the […]
Dr. Vasan Ramachandran, FHS Principal Investigator and Director, receives Lucian Prize
Dr. Vasan Ramachandran, FHS Principal Investigator and Director, receives prestigious Lucian Prize for contributions to cardiovascular science c/o — BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Boston) — Vasan Ramachandran, MD, FACC, the Jay and Louise Coffman Professor in Vascular Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the […]
Revisiting: NHLBI Orloff Award 2019: Andrew Johnson
NHLBI Orloff Award 2019: Andrew Johnson, Ph.D. Dr. Andrew Johnson explains how his team set out on a mission to determine which genes drive platelet count and reactivity, with the ultimate goal of preventing cardiovascular disease. This video is by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health […]
Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD to be named as the Alan S. Cohen, MD Professor of Rheumatology
Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD to be as the Alan S. Cohen, MD Professor of Rheumatology The Framingham Heart Study wishes to congratulate FHS investigator Tuhina Neogi, MD, PhD on her upcoming installation as the Alan S. Cohen, MD Professor of Rheumatology. Dr. Neogi is a rheumatologist and epidemiologist whose research has focused primarily on risk factors […]
Emelia Benjamin, MD Awarded Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence
Emelia Benjamin, MD Awarded Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence This year’s Jerome Klein Award for Physician Excellence was given to Emelia Benjamin, MD, in recognition of her commitment to education, mentoring and clinical excellence, and her dedication to our mission and most vulnerable patients. Ravin Davidoff, MBBCh, SVP and Chief Medical Officer, presented the […]
Maura Walker Awarded AHA Grant
Maura Walker, PhD Receives AHA Award FHS Investigator Maura Walker, PhD has been awarded a grant from the American Heart Association for “Integrative omics approach to elucidate diet quality-blood pressure relations”. Her research focuses on relationships between diet quality, cardiometabolic risk factors and chronic disease, with an emphasis on dietary fat and fatty acid biomarkers. […]
Emer MccGrath Awarded HRB Health Research Award
Emer MccGrath Awarded HRB Health Research Award Per NUI Gallway, July 14, 2020 — Framingham Heart Study Investigator and NUI Galway Clinician Scientist Dr Emer McGrath has been awarded a Clinician Scientist Fellowship as part of the Health Research Board (HRB) €3.7 million investment in twelve new Health Research Fellowships. Dr. McGrath was awarded €655,524 […]
FHS investigator, Emelia Benjamin, MD, ScM received two prestigious awards from the American Heart Association (AHA)
FHS Researcher, Dr. Emelia J. Benjamin received two prestigious awards from the AHA this month: the 2019 Laennec Clinician/Educator Lecture, sponsored by the Council on Clinical Cardiology, which recognizes her contributions and achievements in the field of clinical cardiology and the 2019 Distinguished Achievement award from the Council on Genomic and Precision Medicine (GPM) for […]
FHS investigator Michelle Long, MD announced as Doris Duke 2019 Clinical Scientist Development Awardee
FHS investigator Michelle Long, MD announced as Doris Duke 2019 Clinical Scientist Development Awardee Michelle Long, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of medicine, has been awarded a three-year, $495,000 Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award provides grants to early-career physician scientists to facilitate […]
Cecilia Castro-Diehl, MD PhD; Laura Corlin, PhD; and Joowon Lee, PhD receive American Heart Association Scientific Session awards
Three Boston University Cardiovascular Epidemiology T32 post-doctoral trainees (Cecilia Castro-Diehl, Laura Corlin, and Joowon Lee) will receive awards at the upcoming American Heart Association EPI/Lifestyle Scientific Sessions meeting in March. Their research is based on Framingham Heart Study data. Congratulations to these investigators!! The primary goal of EPI/Lifestyle 2019 Scientific Sessions is to promote the […]