Wayne State research fellow wins Pappenheimer Award from Microcirculatory Society

Hemang Patel, a post-doctoral research fellow in the Wayne State Department of Biomedical Engineering's Vascular Systems Biology Lab, won the John R Pappenheimer Award from the Microcirculatory Society at the Experimental Biology annual meeting in San Diego, Calif., April 26-30. Meeting attendees included 14,000 scientists and researchers in the fields of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, nutrition, and pharmacology.

Patel's presentation, "Systems biology framework for studying hyperglycemia induced endothelial dysfunction," was selected for the award from a highly competitive pool. His research uses systems biology approach to understand endothelial dysfunction in hyperglycemic environment. Some of the results from this work are published in a highly accessed research article in Cardiovascular Diabetology journal. Patel's research was supported by a grant from National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institute of Health.

Patel has been working with his mentor, Mahendra Kavdia, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Wayne State University. Together they are working to understand the mechanisms related to endothelial dysfunction in cardiovascular diseases.

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