AGA Foundation Research Scholar Award Recipients
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2009 Research Scholar Award Recipients
Gregory Austin, MD, MPH
University of Colorado Denver
The Effect of Macronutrients on Gastrointestinal Hormones and Gastric Emptying in Obesity
I would like to thank the AGA and the FDHN for selecting me as a recipient of a 2009 AGA Research Scholar Award. Obesity is an epidemic and will require a multidisciplinary approach to understanding its causes to better direct therapeutic interventions. With funding from this award, I will be able to advance our knowledge of the role of the gastrointestinal tract in obesity. Specifically, over the next three years I will be able to further our understanding of how the fat, carbohydrate, and protein composition of a meal impacts the rate of gastric emptying and the post-prandial release of several peptides from the gastrointestinal tract (such as ghrelin, peptide YY, and glucagon-like peptide-1). My research will identify differences in these gastrointestinal responses between normal-weight and obese individuals, allowing us the opportunity to understand how inappropriate or inadequate gastrointestinal responses to meals may lead to increased energy intake and the development of obesity. Furthermore, my research will look to identify which gastrointestinal responses are associated with greater weight loss with different diets.
The importance of this award on my career development cannot be overstated. The additional protected time and resources provided by the RSA will allow me to maximize my research opportunities and collaborative efforts through the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado, leading to future manuscripts and grants. This award will facilitate obtaining the necessary data and training to be competitive for future NIH R01 funding, and I am very grateful to the AGA for their support.
Michele Battle, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Determining the Role that GATAs Play in Intestinal Development and Function
I am honored to have been chosen as a recipient of the 2009 AGA Foundation's Research Scholar Award. My long-term goal is to develop a research program focused on understanding the regulators and pathways required to create the functional specificity of discrete regions of the small intestine. The research monies provided by the AGA Foundation's Research Scholar Award will enable me to pursue this goal. Failure of the small intestine to digest and absorb adequate amounts of nutrients and fluid results from multiple causes including Crohn's disease and other inflammatory bowel diseases, infection, malrotation, obstruction, tumors, and trauma. Although at present there are more medical interventions for these conditions than in the past, surgery to remove damaged tissue is still a primary treatment method. Individuals with lost intestinal function often require intravenous feeding to maintain proper nutrition and hydration. Those with the least amount of remaining functional intestinal tissue require intestinal transplantation for survival. Future treatment goals include the ability to restore lost functions to remaining intestinal tissue and to engineer intestinal tissue in vitro for transplantation. To accomplish these therapeutic aims, however, a better understanding of how the functions specifically associated with the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum are established and maintained is required. At present, the mechanisms controlling how these regions of the small intestine gain their specific functions is unknown. Elucidating this process is critical to our ability to restore lost functions to intestinal tissue damaged by disease or injury. I am studying the role that two important transcription factors, GATA4 and GATA6, play in determining intestinal identity. I am sincerely grateful that the AGA Foundation has made a strong commitment to supporting the research programs of junior investigators like myself at a time in our careers when it is essential to compile compelling preliminary data in order to be competitive in the large pool of researchers seeking NIH R01 funding. I am confident that this award will provide me with the necessary resources to obtain R01 funding and to continue to build a strong research program focused on intestinal development and function.
Iryna Pinchuk, PhD
University of Texas Medical Branch
Colonic CD90+ myofibroblasts/fibroblasts: implication in the enhanced expansion of CD4+ CD25high
FoxP3+ regulatory T cells during colorectal cancer progression
It is a great honor for me to be a recipient of an AGA Research Scholar Award. The objective of my current studies that has been awarded by AGA Scholar award is to understand the contribution major tumor stromal cells, knowing as colonic myofibroblasts, to the regulatory CD4+ CD25high FoxP3+ T (Treg) cell-mediated immunosupression associated with the colorectal cancer (CRC) progression. Upon realization of this project I anticipate to define how COX-2 derived PGE2 production contributes to the capacity of colonic myofibroblasts to expand Treg cells during CRC progression. These studies will contribute to the long term goal of this project, which is to develop more aggressive therapeutic strategies targeting patients at high risk for CRC development or recurrence.
The goal of my recently accomplished training in gastrointestinal science and mucosal was the acquisition of the skills, knowledge and application necessary to pursue a career as an independent research scientist in an academic setting that will allow me to pursue the investigation of oral tolerance, mucosal inflammation and immunity, and how those process affected during CRC, a disease, which affects thousands of people in the US and worldwide. As a junior faculty member of academia and in order to become an independent and established researcher pursuing stated above scientific goals, it was imperative for me to secure funding from extramural sources, which has become lately increasingly difficult due to the worldwide economical crisis. The AGA Research Scholar Award has now give me the real opportunity to make another step toward achievement of my scientific goals and to become an independent NIH -supported researcher, which will advanced our current understanding of human mucosal gastrointestinal immune responses and will help to develop new treatment for CRC. Therefore, I would like to express my profound gratitude to the AGA Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition for this recognition.
Andrew Tai, MD, PhD
University of Michigan
Functional characterization of a novel role for a phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase in hepatitis C virus replication
It is a tremendous honor to be chosen as one of the recipients of the 2009 AGA Foundation Research Scholar Awards. This award from the AGA and the FDHN provides invaluable support during the early stages of my development into an independent physician-scientist.
My research focuses on the molecular mechanisms by which the host hepatocyte (liver cell) supports hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication. Like all viruses, HCV depends on host proteins for all of the steps in its life cycle. Identifying these proteins will not only shed new light on the basic biology of HCV, but also provide potentially novel therapeutic strategies that focus on targeting essential host cofactors rather than targeting viral proteins. We have recently completed a whole-genome siRNA screen for host cofactors of HCV replication, which identified nearly one hundred human genes that had not been previously recognized to be involved in HCV replication. My work will now focus on the molecular mechanisms by which one of these identified host factors, a phosophatidylinositol 4-kinase, supports HCV replication.
I would like to express my appreciation to the AGA and the FDHN for the career development opportunities afforded by this award, during which I expect to continue my transition towards an independently-funded research program.
2008 Research Scholar Award Recipients
Edda Fiebiger, PhD
Children's Hospital, Boston
Studies on the role of lgE-Fc-epsilon-RI-mediated immune responses in the gastrointestinal tract
It is a big honor to have been selected as the recipient of an AGA Foundation Research Scholar Award, and I wish to express my most sincere thanks to the AGA and FDHN for this recognition of me as a promising researcher in the field of digestive diseases. With funding from this award, my laboratory will able to continue establishing new in vitro and in vivo models for a better understanding of IgE-mediated allergic reactions in the gastrointestinal tract. As approximately one fourth of all American households face restrictions in their diet due to a family member suffering from food allergies, studies on food allergy are of increasing importance. The main goal of this grant is therefore to better understand basic mechanisms that regulate the pathology of food allergic reactions. We will study details of IgE-mediated cell activation and allergen trafficking with new cell models. Furthermore, we will analyze the consequences of IgE-allergen mediated immune activation using a novel transgenic mouse model for human allergies. The experiments proposed will lead to new insights into the pathophysiology of immune responses in the intestinal mucosa and, on a broader scope, will address general issues of the molecular biology of immune recognition receptors and IgE-mediated activation of the immune system as seen in allergy. In the long run, this knowledge will help shape the development of novel treatment options to improve the quality of life of patients with allergic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. The AGA Foundation Research Scholar Award will provide me with the necessary resources to develop this project and obtain a more complete set of preliminary data that will give my lab a competitive advantage in obtaining NIH support. As junior faculty member, I sincerely appreciate the AGA's recognition of the future potential of this project in the field of gastrointestinal immunology and I thank the AGA Foundation for the commitment to advance gastrointestinal research in the field of food allergy.
Lara Gawenis, PhD
University of Utah
Ion channels underlying the actions of the satiety hormone CCK on gastrointestinal vagal afferents
I would like to thank the AGA Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition for providing funding for my project on the role of specific transport proteins in bicarbonate secretion across the colon. In order for intestinal epithelial cells to secrete anions into the lumen, the ions need to be taken up into the cell from the blood side across the basolateral membrane. Proteins (transporters) embedded in the basolateral membrane function to transport the charged anions across the lipid bi-layer of the cell membrane. These ions can then diffuse across the cell and can be secreted into the lumen across the apical membrane of the cell. The two major anions which are transported across the intestinal epithelium for secretion are chloride and bicarbonate. Regulation of chloride and bicarbonate secretion is important to maintain fluid balance (secretion of ions results in fluid secretion) and normal pH of the lumen. In addition, during states of diarrhea, loss of bicarbonate into the intestinal lumen (and subsequently from the body) results in acidification of the blood which contributes to the pathology of diarrhea. Funding of this award by the FDHN will allow the time and resources necessary to develop this project into a competitive NIH RO1 application.
Kirsten Sadler-Edelpi, MMSc, PhD
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Using zebrafish to uncover the role of the unfolded protein response steatosis
Michael Volk, MD, MSc
University of Michigan
Physician and Patient Decision-Making About Organ Quality in Liver Transplantation
I have always been fascinated by the social implications and difficult decisions involved in the fields of hepatology and liver transplantation. For this reason, I have begun a research career that is dedicated to difficult problems in the intersection between medicine and society. The training I have received as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar has provided me with a foundation in health services research, and the AGA Research Scholar Award will allow me to further develop these skills. The outstanding collaboration and mentorship I have enjoyed over the last four years played an important role in my decision to remain on faculty at the University of Michigan. In my two mentors, Peter Ubel and Anna Lok, I have the perfect combination of expertise in decision sciences and hepatology. Both Peter and Anna are extremely dedicated mentors who are generous with their time and resources.
In the next three years, my immediate objective is to improve patient and physician decision-making about organ quality in liver transplantation. My long term goal is to become a well repected clinical hepatologist and health services researcher. I hope to fill a unique niche by applying multidisciplinary research techniques from the field of decision sciences to analyze difficult problems in hepatology and liver transplantation. The field of decision sciences incorporates tools from sociology, economics, ethics, and psychology to look at the social, fiscal, moral, and cognitive-emotional implications of difficult problems.
The AGA Research Scholar Award comes at a crucial time in my career, when my mind is full of questions and I am acquiring the necessary skills to answer these questions. This award will provide me with the protected time to not only answer important clinical questions in the field of liver transplantation, but also to continue developing my research skills. Furthermore, the receipt of this award marks an important first step in establishing a track record of funding, thus increasing my chances of success with future grant applications. I am most grateful to the American Gastroenterological Association for this support.
2008 Sara Jordan Research Scholar Award Recipient
Yuko Mori-Akiyama, MD
The University of Texas
The role of SOX9 in the intestinal epithelium and in colorectal cancer progression
It is my great honor to be selected as one of the recipients of the 2008 research Scholar Awards. We have previously demonstrated that the transcription factor, SOX9 is required for Paneth cell differentiation in mice. I am proposing to investigate the successive step of Paneth cell differentiation. My long-term goal is to understand how SOX9 plays a role in Wnt/ b-catenin signaling pathway both in normal epithelial cell differentiation and colorectal cancer progression. I hope that this will lead to new insights in colorectal cancer, which is one of the most common cancers in the United States. I would like to express my deepest gratitude to AGA/ FDHN. This award will enable me to continue my current study in the GI field.
2008 Mentors Research Scholar Award Recipient
Pradipta Ghosh, MD
University of California, San Diego
The role of G proteins and GIV/Girdin in Cell Migration: Implications in Colon Cancer Metastases
It is a privilege and honor to receive the Research Scholar Award. Knowing the RSA's legacy in the storied history of the AGA foundation/franchise, and how much this award has done to assist young careers such as mine to metamorphose into leaders in academic Gastroenterology, it is something I will always cherish. I am a physcianscientist, and the career pathway that I envision for myself is one in basic science, performing state of the art research guided by my clinical background and understanding of cellular and molecular mechanisms in health and disease. I am proud of my scientific upbringing and thrilled to see how fast and how far I have come. However, the journey till here was only possible because I was given opportunities along the way that I made the most of. The RSAward has now opened a new door and I intend to use every bit of this opportunity to take the next step in my career, i.e., transition to an independent researcher.
My research proposal is intended to study the science of cancer metastasis, with a special focus on colon cancer. Metastasis is a multi-step process that requires tumor cells to migrate into the lymphatic or blood vasculature, become blood borne and lodge in another organ where they invade and grow. A prerequisite to metastasis is efficient cell migration and, it has been shown that cancer cells of highly metastatic tumors exhibit high-velocity migration toward blood vessels as a result of chemotaxis (i.e., movement towards direction of stimuli). During chemotaxis, signals from outside the cell are perceived by direction-sensing receptors and relayed via exceedingly complex molecular assemblies to the interior to initiate events necessary for efficient directional motility. These receptors not only help a cell decide which way to go, but through 'molecular switches' and 'messengers' ensure that the shape of the cell is accordingly modified by forming a well defined leading edge. In this context, the heterotrimeric G proteins behave like 'molecular switches' due to their ability to alternate between two different states; 'on', i.e., active GTP-bound or 'off', i.e., inactive GDP-bound. A cell flips this switch through alternating cycles depending on whether it wishes to transmit the signal from a particular receptor. While training under the guidance of Professor Marilyn Farquhar, PhD., we have now discovered a novel, G protein-dependent molecular switch for cell migration that is heavily utilized by, and absolutely necessary for cancer cells to move most efficiently.
Designing future therapeutic strategies for exploiting or manipulating this switch requires understanding of it first. Therefore to investigate in greater detail and to gain insights into when and how this switch is turned 'on' or 'off', we propose to use various experimental methods.
Our work will add a layer of complexity to understand how cells move. But by the same token, this new layer offers an exciting new aspect of cell migration that could lead to development of prognostication markers for metastasis and might serve as a novel molecular target for the first targeted molecular therapy in our armamentarium against cancer metastasis.
Metastasis is the most fearful aspect of cancer because it signifies systemic, progressive, and essentially incurable disease where palliation becomes the theme of care. Despite the advances made during the past few decades in understanding cancer and its metastatic progression, one of the mysteries still faced by a cancer patient is, will their cancer metastasize? I am very hopeful that in the long term my research will help develop a new prognostic marker and/or treatment option for the devastating and, currently incurable metastatic disease. I have a good pedigree and a good beginning, but a few more years of training under Dr. Farquhar's mentorship, supported by this award, would now help me gain the kind of momentum that I need to launch a career as an independent investigator. This award will go a long way in enabling me to survive this formative period in my career and keep my quest for science alive. Thus, it is with highest enthusiasm I thank you, AGA, for giving me this opportunity to join the RSA-legacy!
2008 Designated Research Scholar Award in Geriatric Gastroenterology Recipient
Richard Saad, MD
University of Michigan
The differences in physiologic mechanisms underlying chronic constipation in elderly versus younger adults with constipation
I am honored to be the recipient of the 2008 AGA Foundation Designated Research Scholarship Award in Geriatric Gastroenterology. I would like to thank the American Gastroenterological Association and its Foundation of Digestive Health and Nutrition for extending this generous award to me. The funds from this scholarship will provide vital support at this early stage of my academic career.
I have come to recognize the growing problem of functional bowel disorders in the elderly, particularly that of chronic constipation and irritable bowel syndrome. Studies addressing the pathophysiology, treatment approach and outcome measures for such disorders in the elderly are severely lacking. Much of what is known is extrapolated from a younger adult population. My initial research will be focused on defining the pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying chronic constipation in the elderly and assessing the correlation of such physiologic findings with other clinical parameters including symptoms and physical exam findings. I anticipate that the data acquired from this study will enable me to formulate future clinical outcome studies assessing constipation and irritable bowel syndrome in the elderly.
In addition to these clinical studies, I intend to pursue further formal training in the area of clinical research design and statistical analysis. The knowledge gained from this clinical research and additional training will provide me with the necessary fundamentals for an independent clinical academic career in geriatric gastroenterology.
2007 Award Recipients
Michael Beyak, BSc., MD
Queen's University at Kingston
Ion channels underlying the actions of the satiety hormone CCK on gastrointestinal vagal afferents
It is truly an honor to have been selected as the recipient of an AGA Foundation Research Scholar Award, and I wish to express my most sincere thanks to the AGA and FDHN for this recognition. This award will provide me with the necessary operating funds to begin my independent research program studying the neural mechanisms of nutrient detection in both health and disease states such as obesity.
I first became interested in research as an undergraduate and during my medical school and residency training at the University of Toronto; I remained continuously involved in GI research. Upon completion of my training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, I subsequently undertook further basic science training at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada and the University of Sheffield in the UK in the field of gastrointestinal afferent nerve physiology. During my post doctoral training, my own research interests became focused on the vagal sensory nerves that detect food intake, as these are the first link in the gut brain axis that is responsible for food intake. I was subsequently appointed to a faculty position in the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology at Queen's University, and became a member of the Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Unit (GIDRU) the largest basic and clinical GI research group of its kind in Canada.
My project entitled "Ion channels underlying the actions of the satiety hormone CCK on gastrointestinal vagal afferents" will characterize the ion channel and molecular mechanisms of action of an important satiety hormone cholecystokinin (CCK) on gastrointestinal vagal afferent nerves. CCK is released from specialized cells in the proximal small intestine in response to the presence of fatty acids and protein, and suppresses food intake through a vagal afferent pathway. However little is known about the mechanisms by which it activates these nerves. Indeed much of our progress in investigating causes and treatments for obesity is hampered by a lack of knowledge of the fundamental neurobiology of food intake regulation. Therefore this project will not only provide important new information on the mechanism of action of CCK on GI vagal afferent nerves, but it will also lay the groundwork for the study of the mechanism of action of a variety of mediators involved in regulating food intake, thus facilitating the study of how these mechanisms are perturbed in obesity, allowing individuals to eat well in excess of their energy requirements.
Let me once again express my excitement and thanks in being selected for this award. The valuable operating funds it provides will allow me to realize my career goal of becoming a clinician scientist, combining clinical practice with bench research, hopefully contributing important "bench to bedside" findings that can potentially contribute to improved patient care.
Sean Koppe, MD
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
The Role of Fatty Acids in the Pathogenesis of Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH)
It is an honor to be a recipient of an AGA Research Scholar Award. This award is vital to my future success as a physician-scientist because it gives me an opportunity to focus my efforts on developing my research career. The AGA Research Scholar Award will provide me with protected time to devote to research and to the ongoing development of laboratory and investigative skills.
The goal of my project is to understand the influence of trans-fatty acids on the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease through use of animal models and analysis of human samples. Additionally, I seek to understand the importance of the potential interaction between fatty acids and toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. The exploding epidemic of obesity has led to the rise of NAFLD as the most common cause of liver test abnormalities. Dietary influences likely play an important role in NAFLD, and the specific importance of trans-fatty acids (present in fast foods, processed foods, junk foods) in the development of this liver disease has not been adequately studied to date.
The AGA Research Scholar Award not only assists in my development into an independent physician-scientist, but also helps to address an important public health issue. It is a privilege to receive this award and I am grateful to the AGA Foundation for this opportunity.
Scott Magness, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillIntestinal Stem/progenitor cell Competence: A Study of SOX Factors, Genetic Markers and Lineage Tracing
Geoffrey Nguyen, BA, MD
John Hopkins School of Medicine
Characterizing Racial Disparities in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Among African Americans
I am deeply honored to be a recipient of a 2007 AGA Research Scholar Award. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the AGA Foundation and to the donors whose generosity continues to kindle and nurture the research missions of the AGA Institute. Their magnanimity will enable me to pursue clinical and epidemiological research in a very crucial period in my career development as an academic gastroenterologist with special interest in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). My research focuses on characterizing determinants of health disparities in IBD. Having trained in inner city Baltimore with a high burden of IBD, I have personally witnessed the devastating impact of this disease on those who do not have access to healthcare. From these experiences, I have been motivated to understand how race and other socio-cultural and economic factors impact IBD health outcomes, most importantly health-related quality of life.
In order to accomplish this in a scientifically rigorous manner, I pursued a Ph.D. degree in clinical investigation at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health concurrently with gastroenterology fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. My research efforts over the last two years have culminated in a thesis dissertation entitled, "Racial Disparities in Utilization of Surgical Procedures in Inflammatory Bowel Disease," under the mentorship of Steven Brant and Thomas LaVeist, renowned experts in their respective fields of IBD and disparities research. I have had the privilege of complementing these research experiences with IBD clinical training under Theodore Bayless and Mary Harris at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
With the support of the AGA Research Scholar Award, I intend to expand my understanding of the influence of race on health resource utilization, quality of care, physician-patient trust, medical adherence, quality of life, disease morbidity, and economic consequences as related to IBD. My three-year project proposal will integrate administrative claims data from state governments and clinical information gained from a longitudinal study of the largest cohort of African American IBD patients in North America. Through the auspices of the Research Scholar Award, I will have the chance to contribute to an exciting and nascent field of IBD research. Over the next several years, I hope to further cultivate skills in administrative data analysis, health-related quality of life research, and economic evaluation that will forge the foundations for an academic career in IBD health outcomes research. I again thank the AGA and the Foundation donors for this thrilling opportunity.
Kris Steinbrecher, PhD
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Role ofepithelial GSK-3B in initiation and resolution of intestinal inflammation
I would like to thank the American Gastroenterological Association and its Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition for selecting me as a recipient of a 2007 Research Scholar Award. I am sincerely grateful for this opportunity as it will provide essential support for me during this critical time in my early career.
This award will fund my work focusing on protective signaling pathways in intestinal epithelia that are essential for both maintenance of intestinal epithelial monolayer homeostasis as well as controlled mucosal responses to acute inflammation. Specifically, this project seeks to determine the manner in which a central mediator of intracellular signaling, glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3), regulates the expression of genes that control the course of inflammatory disease in the intestine. By investigating GSK-3 and the network of proteins that it controls, we can gain further understanding of the essential capacity for innate immunity and resistance to inflammation-associated cell death inherent to the cells that line the intestine. This will aid in the development of approaches designed to provide protection against the damaging effects of intestinal inflammation through potentiating mucosal healing.
In addition to allowing me to move my research aims forward, the Research Scholar Award will support an important period during which I can continue the transition toward becoming an independently funded investigator. The significant monetary resources and recognition this award brings will be a tremendous asset in helping me attain these goals.
2007 Designated Research Scholar Award in Geriatric Gastroenterology
Neena Abraham, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Shared Decision Making for NSAID and Cardioprotective Drug Prescription Among Older Adults
I am delighted to be the inaugural recipient of the AGA/GRG Dedicated Research Scholar Award in Geriatric Gastroenterology. My research agenda is focused on non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and their impact on clinical gastrointestinal outcomes. Concomitant prescription of NSAIDs and cardioprotective medications precipitate substantial morbidity and mortality among the geriatric population. his prestigious award, funded by Sucampo Pharmaceuticals in partnership with the T. Franklin Williams Scholars Program, provides personal salary support to continue my investigation of patient and physician preferences for NSAID prescription in the face of multiple co-morbidities. My objective is to contribute to evidence-based medicine by conducting methodologically rigorous clinical research to improve the medical decision-making process that surrounds the safer prescription of NSAIDs. Without this award, I would be unable to step away from full-time clinical work and pursue clinical research.
I am indebted to the American Gastroenterological Association and its Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition for selecting me as a 2007 recipient of a Research Scholar Award.
2006 Research Scholar Award Recipients
Claudia Andl, PhD
Kenneth Hung, MD, PhD
Serhan Karvar, MD
Eric Lemmer, MD, PhD*
Akhil Maheshwari, MBBS, MD
Shumei Song, MD, PhD
2006 Bernard L. Schwartz Designated Research Scholar Award in Pancreatic Cancer
Kenneth Yu, MD
2006 TAP Endowed Designated Research Award in Acid Related Diseases
Sarah Keates, PhD
2005 Research Scholar Award Recipients
Michael Choi, MD
Ariel Feldstein, MD
Sarah Glover, DO
Martha J. Harding, DVM, PhD
Noah Shroyer, MD
2005 AGA Mentors Research Scholar Award
Elyanne M. Ratcliffe, MD
2004 Research Scholar Award Recipients
Andrew Chan, MD
Sushovan Guha, MD
Chin Hur, MD
Zhiping Li, MD
Yuriko Mori, MD, PhD
Mary Rinella, MD
Adnan Said, MD
2004 AGA-Roche Research Scholar Award in Liver Diseases
Beth Carter, MD
2003 Research Scholar Award Recipients
Srisalia Basavappa, PhD
Ezra Burstein, MD
Lauren Gerson, MD
Holger Kulessa, PhD
Hiroshi Nakagawa, MD
Robert Schwabe, MD
2002 Research Scholar Award Recipients
Willemijntje A. Hoogerwerf, MD
Sherry C. Huang, MD
Braden Kuo, MD
Konstantinos Lazaridis, MD,
Charles R. Madden, PhD
Chinweike Ukomadu, MD, PhD
2001 Research Scholar Award Recipients
Shrikant Anant, PhD
Rebecca Chinery, PhD
Ngoc-Duyen Dang, MD
James Gorham, PhD, MD
Jan-Michael A. Klapproth, MD
E. Michelle Southard-Smith, PhD
*Deceased
