Researchers Receive AHA Collaborative Sciences Award
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May 15, 2019
Ketan B. Ghaghada Ph.D., along with Ying H. Shen, M.D., Ph.D., and Scott A. LeMaire, M.D., are receiving a Collaborative Sciences Award from the American Heart Association. The award is funding their multi-PI, multidisciplinary (radiology and surgery), three-year ($250,000 per year) study on early detection of aortic degeneration using nanoparticle contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) imaging.
According to the American Heart Association, the purpose of the AHA Collaborative Sciences Award is to foster innovative collaborative approaches to research projects that propose novel pairings of investigators from at least two broadly disparate disciplines. The proposal must focus on the collaborative relationship, such that the scientific objectives could not be achieved without the efforts of at least two co-principal investigators and their respective disciplines.
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Dr. Ghaghada is an assistant professor in the Singleton Department of Pediatric Radiology at Texas Children’s Hospital and the Department of Radiology at Baylor College of Medicine. He is a member of the Translational Imaging Group (TIGr) at Texas Children's. The TIGr Lab designs, builds, and tests novel imaging methods, devices, and materials that could become the medical imaging technologies of the future.
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Dr. Shen is an associate professor of surgery and director of the Aortic Disease Research Laboratory. She is an NIH and AHA-funded investigator and key architect of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery’s very successful cardiovascular research program. One of the core missions of the program is research training and education. The Aortic Disease Research Laboratory pursues investigations into the causes and progression of aortic disease and maintains one of the world’s most extensive and well-cataloged aortic tissue banks.
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Dr. LeMaire is the Jimmy and Roberta Howell professor of cardiovascular surgery, professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, and vice-chair of research in the Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. The focus of Dr. LeMaire’ s work, which derives directly from his clinical interest in the surgical treatment of patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections, encompasses outcomes after thoracic aortic repair, strategies for preventing perioperative complications, genetic factors related to aortic disease, and the pathobiology of aortic wall degeneration.
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