2023
Eleni Tseliou, MD, PhD
K08 Career Development Award to perform research in lipid metabolism in HF and myocardial recovery
2023
Joseph Visker, PhD
NHLBI Loan Repayment Program grant focused on the role of pyruvate and lactate metabolism in reperfusion injury in acute myocardial infarction
2023
Christos P. Kyriakopoulos, MD
ISHLT Cardiology Professional Community Award for Excellence for the abstract "Multicenter Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Myocardial Recovery During LVAD Support: The UCAR Score", presented during the ISHLT Annual Meeting held in Denver, CO, in April 2023
2023
Thirupura Shankar
Awarded AHA postdoctoral fellowship 2022 to understand the role of Adipocyte enhancer binding protein 1 (AEBP1) in driving myocardial fibrosis in HF patients.
2022
Christos P. Kyriakopoulos, MD
HFSA Jay N. Cohn New Investigator Award finalist for the abstract "Machine Learning Identification of Transcriptomics and Clinical Characteristics Associated with Myocardial Recovery in Heart Failure Patients Undergoing Mechanical Circulatory Support", presented during the HFSA Annual Meeting held in Washington, DC, in October 2022
2021
Drakos SG
Inaugural Guy Zimmerman Faculty Mentorship Award, University of Utah School of Medicine
2021
Drakos SG
Chairperson, NIH Clinical Integrative Cardiovascular and Hematological Sciences (CCHS) Study Sectio
2020
Omar Wever Pinzon
NIH K23 Career Development Award
2020
Drakos SG
Election to ASCI (American Society of Clinical Investigation)
2019
Rachit Badolia, PhD
Awarded the AHA Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2019 to study cardiac metabolism in heart failure patients undergoing mechanical unloading. This award will allow him to investigate the primary energy substrate and novel metabolic pathways which are involved in functional cardiac recovery in heart failure patients.
2018
Nijat Aliyev, MS1
Won first place for his poster titled "Assessing Glycolysis-Dependent Pentose Phosphate and 1-Carbon Metabolic Pathways in Heart Failure Patients with Left Ventricular Assist Devices”
2018
Medical Student Research Program sponsored by NIH/NHLBI :
Nijat Aliyev, MS1
Awarded through the Medical Student Research Program, sponsored by NIH/NHLBI, T35HL007744
2018
Drakos SG
Outstanding Faculty Mentorship Award, Department of Internal Medicine
University of Utah (sole recipient)
2018
Forbes Honor Roll: Drakos SG
Top 27 US Cardiologists Recognized by Forbes as Exemplary Physicians in the Field of Cardiology: https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2017/12/05/27-top-cardiologists-picked-by-big-data/#2d2c230d6a7e
2017
Medical Student Research Program sponsored by NIH/NHLBI :
Jared M Roberts, MS1
Awarded through the Medical Student Research Program, sponsored by NIH/NHLBI, T35HL007744
Alex Judd, MS2
Awarded through the Medical Student Research Program, sponsored by
NIH/NHLBI, T35HL007744
2017
Student selected for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program
(UROP)- Yuanhang Zhao
2017
Stavros G. Drakos, MD/PhD Planning Committee, Gordon Research Conference
in Assisted Circulation, Stowe, Vermont
2017
Stavros G. Drakos, MD/PhD Chairman, MCS Masters Academy, San Diego,
California, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)
2017
Mohammad AI-Sarie, MD, (University of utah, Heart Failure Clinical Research Fellow):
1st place at the 13th Annual Peter White M.D. Resident Symposium, Toledo, Ohio
2016
Stavros G. Drakos, MD/PhD Co-chairman, NIH/NHLBI Working
Group: “Advancing the Science of Myocardial Recovery MCS”
(http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/research/reports/nhlbi-
working-group-advancing-science-myocardial-recovery-mechanical-
circulatory- support)
2016
Stavros G. Drakos, MD/PhD: Member, American Heart Association (AHA)
Inaugural Research Leaders Academy
2016
Stavros G. Drakos, MD/PhD Co-Chairman, Mechanical Circulatory
Support Masters Academy, Washington DC, International Society of Heart and
2015
Stavros G. Drakos, MD/PhD: Planning Committee, Gordon Research Conference
in Assisted Circulation, Lucca, Italy
2015
Michael J. Bonios, MD/PhD: Jay N. Cohn Young Investigator Award Finalist, Heart
Failure Society of America (HFSA)
2013
Samuel Passi, MS (Medical Student U of Utah): University of Utah
Scholarly Activity Symposium
2013
Nikolaos A. Diakos, MD/PhD: Annual Research Fellowship Award
2013, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation(ISHLT)
2011
Divya R. Verma, MD
Young Innovator Fellow Award of the American Transplant Congress 2011,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
