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2014 YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD RECIPIENTS

SFRBM recognized 15 outstanding student Saurabh Aggarwal, Univ. of Alabama at Ashutosh Kumar, NIEHS

and postdoc members with Young Investigator Birmingham
Immuno-spin trapping of alpha-synuclein
Awards (YIAs) at the society’s Closing
Heme scavenging attenuates bromine induced radical formed in Maneb and paraquat-

Banquet in Seattle. Each winner received lung injury
induced models of Parkinson’s disease

$500 cash and a free registration to the

associations’s 2015 or 2016 Annual Meeting.

Urmi Basu, University of Nebraska Medical Ctr
Kranti Mapuskar The University of Iowa

Overexpression of redox-sensitive calcium/ Superoxide mediates alterations in Complex

Benjamin Rayner, Heart Research Institute calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II I activity seen in adult versus neonatal

(CaMKII) in central neurons augments ibroblasts
- Australia
angiotensin II (AngII)-induced hypertension

The myeloperoxidase-derived oxidant

hypochlorous acid promotes extracellular Karla Maria Pires, University of Utah

trap formation and inlammatory cytokine Janelle Bickta, University of Pittsburgh
Overexpression of human mitochondrial
expression in human monocyte-derived
Myoglobin Induces Mitochondrial Fusion to catalase preserves adipose tissue morphology
macrophages: a potential mechanism of
Decrease Cancer Cell Proliferation and Tumor but does not protect mice from high fat diet-
atherosclerotic lesion development
Volume
induced metabolic impairment

Irwin Fridovich YIA Award - 1 of the top 2 scored

abstracts/presentation at SFRBM 2014

Dustin Carroll, University of Kentucky Joshua Schoenfeld, The University of Iowa

Simultaneous Quantitation of Oxidized and
Intracellular redox active metal ions mediate
Edward Bahnson, Northwestern University
Reduced Glutathione via LC-MS/MS in the differential susceptibility of lung and brain

Safety and Eficacy of a Systemically-Injected
Hematopoietic Tissues
cancer cells to pharmacological ascorbate

Targeted Therapy for the Injured Vasculature

Larry Oberley YIA Award - 1 of the top 2 scored
James Galligan, Univ. of Southern California Vlad Serbulea, University of Virginia
abstracts/presentations at SFRBM2014

Epigenetics and Oxidative Stress: Establishing
Oxidized phospholipids inhibit mitochondrial

a Link Through Histone Adduction
function of macrophages through a TLR2-

Brian Cunniff, University of Utah
ceramide dependent pathway

Localized energy sensing targets mitochondria
Thuy Nguyen, Vanderbilt University
to the leading edge of migrating cells
Thomas van’t Erve,
Reactive γ-ketoaldehydes contribute to NIEHS/NIH
Larry Oberley YIA Award in Cancer recognizing the
α
highest scored abstract/presentation in the area of oxidative damage and aging in a SIR-2.1- The ratio of 8-iso-prostaglandin F2to

dependent manner
prostaglandin F2α distinguishes enzymatic
Cancer
from nonenzymatic isoprostane formation

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