Who We Are Funding

Since 1986, the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) has funded more than $58 million in research grants and programs. Below is a list of our 2024 grant recipients.

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2024 Grant Recipients

Jessica Cassavaugh, MD
Mentored Research Training Grant
Primary Mentor: Simon C. Robson, MB, ChB, FRCP, FAASLD, PhD
Secondary Mentor: Maria Serena Longhi, MD, PhD
Estrogen, Inflammation and Metabolic Health: Estrogen Dependent Signaling is Protective in Metabolic Disease

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

Caoimhe Duffy, MD, MSc
APSF-FAER Mentored Research Training Grant
Primary Mentor: Mark Neuman, MD, MSc
Secondary Mentor: Lewis Jay Kaplan, MD
Tertiary Mentor: Meghan Lane-Fall, MD, MSHP
Additional Collaborators: Ellen O'Sullivan, MD, FCAI; Justin B. Ziemba, MD, MSEd; Rui Feng, PhD
Resilience Training to Prevent Intubation Harm: The One Safe Act-Airway Study

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Melissa Hector-Greene, MD, PhD
Mentored Research Training Grant
Primary Mentor: Kory Lavine, MD, PhD
Secondary Mentor: Michael J. Greenberg, PhD
Pathogenic Mechanisms of R190W Mutation in LMNA-Associated Cardiomyopathy

Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri

Lee Goeddel, MD, MPH
Mentored Research Training Grant
Primary Mentor: Chirag Parikh, MBBS, PhD
Secondary Mentor: Karen Bandeen-Roche, PhD
Tertiary Mentor: Charles Brown, MD
Examining Cardiac Output, Renal Perfusion, and Acute Kidney Injury During Cardiac Surgery Using Urinary Biomarkers of Renal Tubular Injury and Doppler Ultrasound of Renal Vein Blood Flow

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland

*Dr. Goeddel is designated as the 2024 Alison Cole, PhD, Mentored Research Training Grant Awardee, with his grant partially funded by the the Alison Cole, PhD, Fund.

Michael Kazior, MD
Research in Education Grant
Primary Mentor: Susan Martinelli, MD, FASA
Additional Collaborator: Fei Chen, PhD, MEd, MStat
Development and Effect of an Electronic Learning Module on Defibrillator Competence in Anesthesia Providers

Richmond Institute for Veterans Research
Richmond, Virginia

Sara Neves, MD
Research in Education Grant
Primary Mentor: Robina Matyal, MD
Secondary Mentor: Feroze-Ud-Din Mahmood, MD
Developing Automaticity in Invasive Procedures: Novel Application of an Immersive Virtual Reality (VR) Simulator

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts

John Park, MD, PhD
Mentored Research Training Grant
Primary Mentor: Soban Umar, MD, PhD
Secondary Mentor: Mansoureh Eghbali, PhD
Targeting LYSYL-OXIDASE-LIKE-2 in Right Ventricular Remodeling Secondary to Pulmonary Hypertension

University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California

*Partially funded by the Society of Academic Associations of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine (SAAAPM)

Joseph Scarpa, MD, PhD
Mentored Research Training Grant
Primary Mentor: Olivier Elemento, PhD
Secondary Mentor: Peter Goldstein, MD
Tertiary Mentor: Joshua Mincer, MD, PhD
Additional Collaborators: Luis Diaz Jr., MD; Peter Kuhn, PhD
The Response of Circulating Tumor Cells to Surgical Resection and Intraoperative Ketamine in NonSmall Cell Lung Cancer

Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, New York

Po-Yi Paul Su, MD
Mentored Research Training Grant
Primary Mentor: Zhonghui Guan, MD
Secondary Mentor: Judith Hellman, MD
Activating Transcription Factor 3: The Link Between Nerve Regeneration and Persistence of Post-Surgical Pain?

University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

E. Railey White, MD, PhD
Transition to Independence Grant
Novel Molecules as a Window to Anesthetic Mechanisms

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Xiao Lu Zhang, PhD, DO
Research Fellowship Grant
Primary Mentor: Aftab Ahmad, PhD
Pathogenic Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Aspiration-Induced Acute Lung Injury

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

Additional Grant Information

• FAER Grant Instructions
• Transition to Independence Grant Instructions
• APSF-FAER Mentored Research Training Grant (MRTG) Instructions
• Download the list of all FAER funded grant recipients (1973-2021) (PDF).

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Contact the FAER office at (630) 912-2554 or [email protected].