2020 David E. Rogers Memorial Research Award Winner Announced


Established in 1995, the David E. Rogers Memorial Research Award encourages medical residents to continue their investigative research in internal medicine. Each year, senior medical residents submit research abstracts, and finalists are chosen to present their work during medical grand rounds.

The award was founded and is chaired by Holly S. Andersen, M.D. – Director of Education and Outreach at The Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute, Associate Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College – and is funded by the Holly Andersen Heart Foundation.

Winner

Montreh Tavakkoli

Epichaperome Abundance Predicts Response to the Epicharperome Inhibitor PUH-71 in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

First Runner-Up

Daniel Helbig

Outcomes in CLL Patients with NOTCH1 Regulatory Pathway Mutations

Runners-Up

Dario Villamar

Serial Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) Measurement Predicts Clinical Response in Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma Patients

Brian Yum

Left Atrial Strain Impairment is a Novel Early Marker of Diastolic Dysfunction – A Multimodality Validation Study