Resident Dr. Stefan Elde receives NIH Ruth L Kirschstein National Research Service Award

August 18, 2023

Stefan Elde, MD, a cardiothoracic surgery resident in the Stanford Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, was recently awarded the NIH NHLBI Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32), a highly competitive grant to support the research training of highly promising postdoctoral candidates in scientific health-related research fields.

Dr. Elde is currently studying the endogenous mechanisms of angiogenesis and myocardial regeneration in the Stanford Advanced Cardiovascular Therapeutics and Surgical Biomechanics Translational Research Laboratory, directed by the department chair and Norman E. Shumway Professor Joseph Woo, MD. His NIH project will further investigate this topic, entitled "Temporospatial Single-Cell Characterization of Angiogenesis and Myocardial Regeneration in Small and Large Mammals."

This is the fourth NIH F32 award given to residents of the department’s Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgical Training Program over the last four years. Previous recipients of the award include:

• Albert "AJ" Pedroza, MD, cardiothoracic surgery resident; postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Michael Fischbein's lab

• Yuanjia Zhu, MD, cardiothoracic surgery resident; postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Joseph Woo's lab

• Alex Dalal, MD, cardiothoracic surgery resident; postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Michael Fischbein's lab