Dr. Nalini Rajamannan

Dr. Nalini Rajamannan (right) and Dr. Stephen Carmichael (left).

Winner of the 2000 Outstanding Young Investigator Award

Dr. Rajamannan received her B.S. degree magna cum laude at the University of Notre Dame in 1985 and her M.D. at Mayo Medical School in 1989. She trained in internal medicine and did a cardiovascular fellowship at Mayo. Dr. Rajamannan is currently Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Medical School. Her work is involved in elucidating the mechanisms involved in the osteogenesis of the aortic valve during calcific aortic stenosis and to identify how hypercholesterolemia contributes to the development of arteriosclerosis and calcification. Her award presentation was entitled "Aortic valve calcification is accompanied by a transition to an osteoblast phenotype" and was presented on Friday, July 19th 2002 in Kane Hall at the University of Washington in Seattle, at the Joint Meeting of The Histochemical Society and the Japan Society of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry.

February 3rd, 2003