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  • 2026 Award Winners

Travel Award

Karim Salem, MD

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Charleston, SC

VESS Resident Research Award

Keyuree Satam, MD

Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Leveraging iPSC Models to Study Endothelial Dysfunction in Vascular Ehlers Danlos Syndrome

Boston Scientific Early Career Investigator Award #1

Katherine Holzem, MD

Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO

Interrogating Outer Medial Microenvironments in Human Aortic Dissection and Peripheral Medial Calcification with Spatial Technologies

Boston Scientific Early Career Investigator Award #2

Christopher Audu, MD

University of Utah Hospital, Salt Lake City, UT

Sirtuin-1 in Diabetic Vascular Endothelial-to-mesenchymal Cell Transition for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Progression

2026 Best Paper Award

Grzegorz Jodlowski (Author); Saman Qadri (Presenter)

Mayo Clinic – Rochester, MN

Bioengineered Scaffold Seeded with Adipose-derived Stem Cells for Arterial Reconstruction In a Swine Model: A Step Toward On-demand Regenerative Vascular Grafts