Extraordinary Doctors

Pei-Yu Chen, BS, MS, PhD, Awarded Two-Year Grant Through VF’s Young Investigator’s Award Program

Pei-Yu Chen, BS, MS, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Cardiovascular Medicine, at Yale University, has been awarded a two-year grant through the Vasculitis Foundation’s Young Investigator’s Award Program for her study, “siRNA Nanoparticle Targeting Endothelial Cell TGFβ Signaling Against ANCA-Vasculitis.” The aim is to reveal how large a role TGFβ-mediated EndMT…...

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David Massicotte-Azarniouch, MD, Awarded Two-Year Grant Through VF’s Young Investigator’s Award Program

David Massicotte-Azarniouch, MD, Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa and Associate Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Ontario, Canada, has been awarded a two-year grant through the Vasculitis Foundation’s Young Investigator’s Award Program. The aim of his study, “Steroid Minimization in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis For Safe Effective Treatment…...

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Introducing Our 2022-2023 VCRC-VF Fellow: Gözde Kübra Yardimci, MD

Gözde Kübra Yardimci, MD, began her one-year Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (VCRC)-Vasculitis Foundation (VF) Fellowship in July 2022 at Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her main areas of interest at present are severe ischemic events in Takayasu arteritis and Behçet’s syndrome. Through her fellowship, Dr. Yardimci is…...

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Introducing Our 2022-2023 VCRC-VF Fellow: Marta Casal Moura, MD, MSc, MSPH

Marta Casal Moura, MD, MSc, MSPH, began her one-year Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium (VCRC)-Vasculitis Foundation (VF) Fellowship in July 2022. For anti-neutrophil autoantibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV), she is studying the predictors of response to plasma exchange in patients who have AAV glomerulonephritis and how histologic scores can predict the response…...

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GPA Patient’s Advice for Others Facing a Similar Diagnosis: Remain Positive—You Can Beat This

In late summer of 1992, Dan Prozialeck began experiencing chronic congestion, coughing and sinus infections, throat pain, and excruciating joint pain. He had been going to a local urgent care facility for months for the sinus infections and each time he saw the doctor, he was put on a stronger…...

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