The Johns Hopkins Doris Duke Early Clinician Investigator Award honors the academic achievements and potential of early career clinician scientists conducting original and rigorous clinical research projects. In order to be eligible for the awards, applicants must have extraprofessional caregiving responsibilities.

 

The foundation’s Clinical Scientist Development Award (CSDA) funds physician scientists who are at the early stages of their profession to help them transition to independent research careers. Four doctors from Johns Hopkins will receive $495,000 over the course of 3 years to allow them to dedicate 75% of their professional time towards clinical research. To learn more about the foundation and to see the full list of winners, visit https://www.ddcf.org/home/.

 

2020 Award Recipients

 

Justin B. Echouffo Tcheugui, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Project: Effects of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter (SGLT)-2 Inhibition on Energy Metabolism and Function of the Failing Human Heart

 

 

 

Christa W. Habela, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Project: Using Human Neurons, in Vitro, to Investigate Novel Mechanisms of Altered Brain
Excitability in Patients with Epilepsy Susceptibility due to Deletion of the 15q11.2 Locus

 

 

Mira M. Sachdeva, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
Project: Longitudinal Profiling of Retinal Neurovascular Abnormalities and Molecular Biomarkers
in Prediabetes and Early Diabetes: Establishing Novel Paradigms for Diabetic Retinopathy

 

 

Michael D. Kornberg, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Project: Pharmacologic and Dietary Approaches for Targeting Metabolism in Autoimmune Disease