91AVCOM’s Tim McLerran awarded Sarnoff Cardiovascular Fellowship

Tim McLerran, currently a first-year medical student in 91AV’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, was recently awarded a Sarnoff Cardiovascular Fellowship, which will fund him in a year-long research project at a leading U.S. cardiovascular research laboratory of his choosing and will provide mentorship to him throughout his career.  He is the first doctor of osteopathic medicine (DO) student ever to receive the award.

McLerran is hoping to spend his research year studying cardiovascular metabolomics, the study of cell activity throughout the body through the measure of small-molecule metabolites present in the bloodstream.  He stated: “We have seen a massive increase in the incidence of cardiovascular disease in recent years, and the study of the metabolome has great potential to help us understand how these diseases develop and what we can do to prevent or reverse them. In this year of research, I hope to become acquainted with the technologies and paradigms that will define next-generation medicine.”

McLerran will take next year off from medical school in order to participate in the research fellowship.

Fellows are selected on the basis of intellectual and academic achievement, as well as leadership ability.

The Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation was started by the estate of the world-renowned cardiovascular physiologist Stanley Sarnoff, M.D., who believed that providing research opportunities to the most promising medical students would entice them to enter the field of cardiovascular research.

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