Supporting postdoctoral training at the Medical College of Wisconsin's Cardiovascular Center (CVC), the A. Smith Fellowship Scholars Program enhances the CVC's mission to train the next generation of cardiovascular scientists and emphasizes critical components designed to launch and sustain research careers including individualized development plans, personalized multidisciplinary mentoring teams,
and training in core competencies. This program is supported by the CVC's specific areas of scientific excellence in Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology, Cardiac Biology & Heart Failure, Hypertension, and Precision Cardiovascular Medicine, the CVC's highly-integrated collaborative research environment, and access to an extensive research infrastructure. Faculty mentors include:
• Atherosclerosis & Thrombosis: Albert Girotti, PhD; Q. Robert Miao, PhD; Robert Montgomery, MD; Peter Newman, PhD; Kirkwood Pritchard, Jr., PhD; Daisy Sahoo, PhD; Roy Silverstein, MD; Mary Sorci-Thomas, PhD.
• Cardiac Biology & Heart Failure: John Auchampach, PhD; Tom Aufderheide, MD; Xiaowen Bai, PhD; Peter Frommelt, MD; Paul Goldspink, PhD; Scott Levick, PhD; Jennifer Strande, MD, PhD; Dorothee Weihrauch, DVM, PhD.
• Hypertension: Allen Cowley, Jr., PhD; Andrew Greene, PhD; Srividya Kidambi, MD; Alison Kriegel, PhD; Mingyu Liang, MB, PhD; Julian Lombard, PhD; David Mattson, PhD; Andrey Sorokin, PhD; Alexander Staruschenko, PhD.
• Precision Cardiovascular Medicine: Ivor Benjamin, MD; Dudley Woodrow Benson, Jr., MD, PhD; Zeljko Bosnjak, PhD; Ulrich Broeckel, MD; John Corbett, PhD; Michael Flister, PhD; Aron Geurts, PhD; Rebekah Gundry, PhD; Brian Hoffmann, PhD; John Lough, PhD; Michael Mitchell, MD; Aoy Tomita-Mitchell, PhD.
• Vascular Biology: Andreas Beyer, PhD; William Campbell, PhD; Magdalena Chrzanowska-Wodnicka, PhD; Matt Durand, PhD; Hubert Forster, PhD; David Gutterman, MD; David Harder, PhD; John Imig, PhD; Elizabeth Jacobs, MD, MBA; Balaraman Kalyanaraman, PhD; Girija Konduri, MD; Nicole Lohr, MD, PhD; Ramani Ramchandran, PhD; Michael Widlansky, MD, MPH; David X. Applications for this 2 year postdoctoral fellowship (with the possibility of a third year) are ONLY accepted by applying through MCW's Human Resources Office: http://www.mcw.edu/Human-Resources.htm
Applicants should be highly-motivated, ambitious, productive, and have (or anticipate having) a PhD, PharmD, MD, or DO in a relevant research area such as biology, molecular biology, genetics, immunology, biochemistry, pharmacology, or physiology with a strong track record of, and a keen interest in, at least one of the five research areas. Stipends begin at $50,000 (stipends determined by years of experience). To be eligible, applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Clinical scholars will have protected time for research. We are especially eager to recruit women, persons with disabilities, and underrepresented minorities.
