New Investigator Award

Recipients of the Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis
Section New Investigator Award

Current 2012 Awardee:


Pictured L to R: Jennifer Sasser (New Investigator Awardee) and Jennifer Pollock (Chair of the WEH)

The Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section New Investigator Award recognizes an outstanding investigator in the early stages of his/her career. The Awardee is selected based on their publications, how their publications relate to the Water and Electrolyte Homeostasis Section and evidence for independence and promise (grant funding, peer review activities, etc.). The recipient of this award receives $1,000 plus reimbursement of the advanced EB Meeting registration fee and 1 year paid APS membership dues.

Past Awardees:

2012
Jennifer Sasser, Ph.D.
“Relaxin protects against Cardio-Renal Disease: Role of Nitric Oxide”
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Mississippi Medical Center

2011 
Ahmed Elmarakby, Ph.D.
“Reno-protective mechanisms of epoxyeicosatrienoic acid derivatives in cardiovascular disease” 
Assistant Professor, Oral Biology/Pharmacology 
Georgia Health Sciences University

2010
Alejandro Chade, MD
“The Renal Microcirculation? How Important Those Small Vessels Are for the Kidney”
Assistant Professor, Physiology 
University of Mississippi Medical Center

2009
Carol P. Moreno Quinn, PhD
“Genomic Strategies for Dissecting Cardiovascular and Renal Disease”
Assistant Professor
Medical College of Wisconsin

2008
Michael J. Ryan, PhD
“Pathophysiology of Hypertension in Systemic lupus Erythematosus”
Assistant Professor
University of Mississippi Medical Center

2007
Jennifer C. Sullivan, PhD
“Sexual dimorphism in the development of hypertension and renal injury in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR)”
Vascular Biology Center
Medical College of Georgia

2006
Armin Just, MD
“Mechanisms of renal blood flow autoregulation: dynamics and contributions”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2005
Barbara T. Alexander, PhD
“Low birth weight, the kidney, and hypertension”
Assistant Professor of Physiology
University of Mississippi Medical Center

2004
Volker Vallon, MD
“The proximal tubule in the pathophysiology of the diabetic kidney”
Division of Medicine, Nephrology and Hypertension
University of California-San Diego

2003
Simon Malpas, PhD
“What sets the long term level of sympathetic activity?”
Associate Professor of Physiology
University of Auckland, New Zealand

2002
Robin L. Davisson, PhD
“Functional genomic analysis of cardiovascular function in health and disease”
Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of Iowa College of Medicine

2001
Christine G. Schnackenberg, Ph.D.
“Physiological and pathophysiological roles of oxygen radicals in the renal microvasculature”
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology 
Georgetown University Medical Center



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