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Diego Almodiel and Marta Mart\u00ednez Yus, PhD candidates in the Whiting School of Engineering\u2019s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, each received an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship<\/a>. The fellowships, worth $29,144 per year and spanning one or two years, will support their research focusing on improving cardiovascular health in atherosclerosis and aging. Both students are in their third year of studies in the Santhanam Lab<\/a> at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Almodiel’s research focuses on the development of a therapeutic for atherosclerosis, a thickening or hardening of the arteries. His goal is to target anti-atherogenic pathways within macrophages\u2014the main cell type involved in the formation and growth of plaque\u2014to modulate local inflammation without causing any systemic side effects. He is working with Sujatha Kannan, the vice chair for research in the School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, and Kannan Rangaramanujam, the co-director of the Center for Nanomedicine, to develop strategies to use dendrimers\u2014small, branched molecules\u2014to target a certain type of white blood cell within atherosclerotic plaque.<\/p>\n

Mart\u00ednez Yus’s research focuses on improving cardiovascular health in post-menopausal women. Increased mechanical stiffness of the large conductance arteries in the body is a major contributing factor to the deterioration of cardiovascular health during aging, and post-menopausal women face a sudden and rapid shift in the material properties of the aorta. Martinez Yus is looking into whether the activation of matrix remodeling programs causes this shift and defining targetable enzymes to stave off this loss of mechanical homeostasis in the cardiovascular system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-46289","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-awards-and-honors","news_categories-phd","news_categories-students"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTwo ChemBE PhD students named AHA fellows - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/chembe\/news\/two-chembe-phd-students-named-aha-fellows\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two ChemBE PhD students named AHA fellows - Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Diego Almodiel and Marta Mart\u00ednez Yus, PhD candidates in the Whiting School of Engineering\u2019s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, each received an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship. 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