The AHA’s Merit Award supports highly promising, novel research that has the potential to move cardiovascular science forward quickly, with high impact. Alan Daugherty’s research will focus on identifying and testing the effects of new drugs to treat diseases of the aorta, the largest blood vessel in the body.
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A Lexington, Ky., research scientist studying ways to repair damaged major vessels with medication rather than surgery and a physician-scientist from Ann Arbor, Mich., exploring the mechanisms of how exercise can heal heart muscle and brain tissue following a heart attack or stroke are the most recent American Heart Association Merit Award recipients. Each researcher will receive $1 million in funding from the Association, the world’s leading voluntary organization focused on heart and brain health and research.