2025
Thirupura S. Shankar, PhD and Rana Hamouche, MD
Cardiorenal and metabolism center (CRMC) seed grant 2025 for “Investigating circulation adipocyte enhancer binding protein 1 ((AEBP1) as a potential mediator of cardiorenal dysfunction following myocardial infarction”
Joseph Visker, PhD
NIH K99/R00 award: “MCT4 inhibition and Cardiac Ischemic-Reperfusion Injury”.
Thomas Hanff, MD
NIH K23 award: “Cardiorenal Mechanisms Impacting Cardiogenic Shock Mortality”.
Thirupura S. Shankar, PhD
Finalist Young Investigator Award at ISHLT: “Epigenetics of Myocardial Recovery”.
2023
Eleni Tseliou, MD, PhD
K08 Career Development Award to perform research in lipid metabolism in HF and myocardial recovery
Joseph Visker, PhD
NHLBI Loan Repayment Program grant focused on the role of pyruvate and lactate metabolism in reperfusion injury in acute myocardial infarction
Christos 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
Thirupura S. Shankar, PhD
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 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
Drakos SG
Chairperson, NIH Clinical Integrative Cardiovascular and Hematological Sciences (CCHS) Study Sectio
2020
Omar Wever Pinzon
NIH K23 Career Development Award
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”
Awarded through the Medical Student Research Program, sponsored by NIH/NHLBI, T35HL007744
Drakos SG
Outstanding Faculty Mentorship Award, Department of Internal Medicine University of Utah (sole recipient)
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
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
Yuanhang Zhao
Student selected for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
Drakos SG
Stavros G. Drakos, MD/PhD Planning Committee, Gordon Research Conference in Assisted Circulation, Stowe, Vermont
Stavros G. Drakos, MD/PhD Chairman, MCS Masters Academy, San Diego, California, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT)
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)
Member, American Heart Association (AHA) Inaugural Research Leaders Academy
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
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
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