Cardiovascular Research Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
Training in next generation of cardiovascular scientists and physicians at the Medical College of Wisconsin's Cardiovascular Research Center. O. Zhang, MD, PhD.
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.
05/02/2025
Two competitive slots open at MCW! The CVRC is seeking applicants for the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiovascular Sciences.
The goal of the program is to provide a highly versatile, integrated and effective approach for training the next generation of cardiovascular scientists and physicians.
Two fellowship positions available:
One position must be filled by June 30, 2025.
A second position will become available starting July 1, 2025
The Cardiovascular Research Center has appointed Adam Knier, PhD, as a postdoctoral trainee to the Cardiovascular Research Center’s National Institutes of Health T32 postdoctoral training program.
Dr. Knier earned a Bachelor of Science in biomedical sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2012. He gained experience as a cytotechnologist at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics and as a molecular biology technologist at Versiti Diagnostic Laboratories before pursuing his PhD in biological sciences at Marquette University, which he completed in 2024. He then joined the laboratory of Stephanie Olivier-Van Stichelen, PhD, associate professor at MCW in a joint position between the department of biochemistry and the department of neurosurgery, under the guidance of Nathan Zwagerman, MD, associate professor of neurosurgery. Dr. Olivier-Van Stichelen is a member of the Cardiovascular Research Center’s Signature Program in Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. As part of his T32 fellowship, Dr. Knier will explore how a specific chemical modification, O-GlcNAcylation, influences the production of proopiomelanocortin (POMC). This protein is a precursor for several essential hormones involved in obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure. By uncovering how O-GlcNAcylation impacts POMC, Dr. Knier’s research will provide valuable insights into the link between this protein and cardiovascular disease, paving the way for new cardiovascular treatment strategies.
Building on excellence in cardiovascular research, the Cardiovascular Research Center’s T32 postdoctoral training program, “Training in Signature Transdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences,” is funded by a $2.7 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute that provides support for six postdoctoral training slots each year. The grant provides up to three years of training for appointed postdoctoral fellows in the Cardiovascular Research Center with an MD, PhD, PharmD, or DO degree. Complementary support for trainees is provided by a donation given to the Cardiovascular Research Center by the A. O. Smith Foundation for the A. O. Smith Fellowship Scholars Program, a program designed to support talented cardiovascular researchers and physicians to overcome the barriers that exist in launching and sustaining a successful research career.
The ultimate goal of this training program is to train the next generation of cardiovascular scientists and physicians by incorporating broad-based, personalized, supportive, and rigorous training opportunities.
Dr. Knier joins five other distinguished A.O. Smith Scholars in the Cardiovascular Research Center’s T32 postdoctoral training program: Alexis Smith, PhD; Amirala Bakhshian Nik, PhD, MS; Stephen Hammond, PhD, MS; Sakthi Sundararajan, MD, MS; and Michelle Roberts, PhD, MS. The program is currently accepting applications from highly qualified candidates to fill one remaining slot. Since its inception in 2017, alumni of the program have been highly successful in publishing in high-impact journals, obtaining K and F awards, and securing faculty positions, building towards independence as cardiovascular investigators and physicians.
The program is co-directed by Ivor Benjamin, MD, professor of medicine and Mary Sorci-Thomas, PhD, professor of medicine and associate director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at MCW.
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01/23/2025
Publishing highly cited papers helps postdoctoral researchers to land a faculty position.
“Our research highlights that the postdoctoral years are just as critical as the PhD years when evaluating a scientist’s likelihood of successfully entering academia and securing a faculty position,” she says.
Publishing highly cited papers helps postdoctoral researchers to land a faculty job.
01/22/2025
Congratulations to Dr. Alicen Whitaker-Hilbig, former T32 postdoctoral fellow, on being awarded an American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship!
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The Medical College of Wisconsin’s Cardiovascular Center, a nationally recognized leader in research, has been awarded a five-year $1.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, to support a new institutional T32 Postdoctoral Training Program. The grants will support post-doctoral trainees with an MD, PhD, PharmD, or DO degree, for up to three years of training designed to launch sustainable research careers.
The goal of the project, “Training in Signature Transdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences,” is to prepare the next generation of cardiovascular scientists, including underrepresented minorities, for success by incorporating broad-based, personalized, supportive, and rigorous training opportunities. Training components of the program include individual development plans, personalized multidisciplinary mentoring teams, training in core competencies and industry/biotechnology or scientific liaison career options for trainees not pursuing careers in academia. Forty-six basic scientists and translational investigators serve as mentors in the program spanning broad areas of interest within cardiovascular sciences aligned with our Signature Programs in atherosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology; cardiac function and heart failure, precision medicine, and hypertension.
Ivor Benjamin, MD, professor of medicine and Director of the Cardiovascular Center at MCW and David Gutterman, MD, Northwestern Mutual Professor of Cardiology and Senior Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Center at MCW, are co-principal investigators of the research project, Mary Sorci-Thomas, PhD, professor of medicine, is associate director of the training program. Allison DeVan, PhD is the academic program and research consultant and Erin Theriault, MS is the research program coordinator of the grant.
Complementary support for trainees in cardiovascular sciences at MCW is provided by a grant from the A. O. Smith Foundation for the Cardiovascular Center’s A. O. Smith Fellowship Scholars Program, which is designed to support talented cardiovascular researchers and physicians overcome the barriers that exist to launching and sustaining a successful research career.
Faculty mentors include:
• Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis & Vascular Biology: Andreas Beyer, PhD; William Campbell, PhD; Magdalena Chrzanowska, PhD; John Corbett, PhD; Matthew Durand, PhD; Hubert Forster, PhD; Julie Freed, MD, PhD; Albert Girotti, PhD; David Gutterman, MD; John Imig, PhD; Elizabeth Jacobs, MD, MBA; Balaraman Kalyanaraman, PhD; Girija Konduri, MD; Nicole Lohr, MD, PhD; Robert Montgomery, MD; Peter Newman, PhD; Kirkwood Pritchard, Jr., PhD; Ramani Ramchandran, PhD; Daisy Sahoo, PhD; Roy Silverstein, MD; Brian Smith, PhD; Mary Sorci-Thomas, PhD; Michael Widlansky, MD, MPH; David X. Zhang, MD, PhD.
• Cardiac Biology & Heart Failure: John Auchampach, PhD; Tom Aufderheide, MD; Xiaowen Bai, MD, PhD; Carmen Bergom, MD, PhD; Joy Lincoln, PhD; Caitlin O’Meara, PhD; Dorothee Weihrauch, DVM, PhD.
• Hypertension: Allen Cowley, Jr., PhD; Justin Grobe, PhD; Srividya Kidambi, MD; Alison Kriegel, PhD; Mingyu Liang, MB, PhD; Julian Lombard, PhD; Curt Sigmund, PhD; Andrey Sorokin, PhD; Alexander Staruschenko, PhD.
• Precision Cardiovascular Medicine: Ivor Benjamin, MD; Zeljko Bosnjak, PhD; Ulrich Broeckel, MD; Aron Geurts, PhD; John Lough, PhD; Michael Mitchell, MD; Michaela Patterson, PhD; Brandon Tefft, PhD; Aoy Tomita-Mitchell, PhD.
Applications for this up to 3 year postdoctoral fellowship are ONLY accepted by applying through MCW's Human Resources Office: requisition id 25187, 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 are 11% higher than NRSA stipends.
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.
