The American Medical Assn. Foundation doled out 28 grants to medical students, residents and fellows to help fund their research into the causes of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, HIV/AIDS, leukemia and neoplastic diseases.
Seven of the $2,500 awards from the AMA Foundation’s 2009 Seed Grant Research Program went to Massachusetts researchers:
• Peter Moschovis, M.D., M.P.H., Harvard Medical School
• Brian Nahed, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
• Ami Raval, M.D., Tufts Medical Center
• Noah Rodriguez, M.D., Harvard Medical School
• Sacha Uljon, M.D., Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Guadalupe Villarreal, Jr., Harvard Medical School
• Vijay Yanamadala, Harvard Medical School