{"id":49681,"date":"2018-05-11T03:32:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T07:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=49681"},"modified":"2018-05-09T13:13:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T17:13:38","slug":"ut-medical-student-receives-sarnoff-fellowship-for-cardiovascular-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/05_11_2018\/ut-medical-student-receives-sarnoff-fellowship-for-cardiovascular-research","title":{"rendered":"UT medical student receives Sarnoff Fellowship for cardiovascular research"},"content":{"rendered":"

A third-year medical student at The University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences was selected as a 2018-19 Sarnoff Fellow. <\/p>\n

Rahul Mital, who is studying to work in the field of pediatric cardiology, is one of nine students across the United States awarded the honor.<\/p>\n

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Mital<\/p><\/div>\u201cThis is a very competitive, prestigious award,\u201d said Dr. Christopher Cooper, dean of the UT College of Medicine and Life Sciences, and executive vice president for clinical affairs. \u201cWe are proud of Rahul and look forward to his achievements in cardiovascular research.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Sarnoff Fellowship\u00a0program offers medical students enrolled in accredited U.S. medical schools the opportunity to spend a year conducting intensive work in a biomedical research facility in the United States other than the medical school in which they are enrolled. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m humbled by the opportunity that lies ahead of me and plan to make the most of it,\u201d Mital said. \u201cBeing a member of the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Foundation and partaking in world-class research while receiving mentorship and guidance is truly an invaluable step in achieving my goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rahul plans to study cardiogenesis, which is the development of the heart in the embryo, and how to use gene therapy as a potential treatment for congenital heart disease.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo child deserves to be born with a congenital heart disease, but the unfortunate truth is that congenital heart disease is the most common type of birth defect, affecting 40,000 births per year in the United States alone,\u201d Mital said. \u201cIf a greater understanding of the underlying pathophysiology is achieved, patient care can move away from expensive surgeries and lifelong follow-ups, and instead be focused at the molecular level.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full-time Sarnoff Fellowship is a one-year award of $32,000 for the 2018-19 academic year. Fellows also receive financial support for travel and moving expenses.<\/p>\n

The 2018-19 Fellows were introduced at the Sarnoff Foundation\u2019s 38th\u00a0Annual Scientific Meeting last week in Boston. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rahul Mital, a third-year medical student, is one of nine students in the country to be named a Sarnoff Fellow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1,3,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49737,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49681\/revisions\/49737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}