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Wylie Scholar Award
The Foundation to Advance Vascular Cures Wylie Scholar award is a 1-year, $50,000 grant designed to support outstanding young vascular surgeon-scientists who are dedicated to an academic career combining their clinical practice with original, innovative research.
2026 Wylie Scholar
Brianna Krafcik, MD - Enhancing Shared Decision Making for Patients with Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis
2025 Wylie Scholar
Sara “Mimi” Gaines, MD - The role of microbial uremic toxins on endothelial and smooth muscle cell regulation of neointimal formation in arteriovenous fistulas.
2024 Wylie Scholar
Patric Liang, MD - Biodegradable Hydrogels for Perivascular Delivery of Targeted Gene Therapy to Improve Prosthetic Bypass Graft Patency.
2022 Wylie Scholar
Tammy T. Nguyen, MD, PhD - Exploring How the Diabetic Immune System Contributes to Non-Healing Ulcers
2021 Wylie Scholar
Kevin W. Southerland, MD - Transcriptional Dynamics and Heterogeneity of Macrophages in Chronic Limb Threatening Ischemia
2020 Wylie Scholar
Kathryn Howe, MD, PhD - The role of endothelial extracellular vesicle microRNA release and paracrine cellular communication in vulnerable carotid atherosclerotic plaques
2019 Wylie Scholar
Andrea Obi, MD - Impact of bone marrow progenitor cells epigenetic memory on venous thrombus formation and resolution
2018 Wylie Scholar
John Byrne, MD - the inflammatory process of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) development, which could improve the prediction and treatment of aortic aneurysms at high risk of a fatal rupture.
2017 Wylie Scholar
Sean English, MD - to neutralize the body’s signaling mechanisms that cause abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) to grow.
2016 Wylie Scholar
Ryan McEnaney, MD - to improve collateral artery development, known as arteriogenesis.
2015 Wylie Scholar
Mohamed Zayed, MD, PhD - multi-pronged research program investigating mechanisms of arterial disease progression.
2014 Wylie Scholar
Matthew Corriere, MD - focuses on patient preference elicitation, patient-doctor communication, risk stratification, and clinical outcomes related to peripheral artery disease.
2013 Wylie Scholar
Thomas Monahan, MD - identifying the mechanisms responsible for vein graft, angioplasty and stent failure.
2012 Wylie Scholar
Katherine Gallagher, MD - to improve wound healing in patients with Type 2 diabetes, a severe problem that frequently leads to amputation.
2011 Wylie Scholar
Gale Tang, MD - understanding the mechanisms that promote blood vessel growth, and to develop new non‐surgical therapies for people suffering from an advanced form of peripheral artery disease (PAD).
2010 Wylie Scholar
Bryan Tillman, MD, PhD - the development of novel endovascular devices.
2008 Wylie Scholar
Ulka Sachdev, MD - understanding the mechanisms that promote blood vessel growth and developing new therapies for people suffering from peripheral arterial disease and critical limb ischemia.
2007 Wylie Scholar
Matthew Eagleton, MD - to investigate the processes leading to the development of an aortic aneurysm, a potentially fatal bulge or ballooning of the main artery leading from the heart to lower portions of the body.
2006 Wylie Scholar
Eric Choi, MD - ways to grow new blood vessels as a therapy for treating critical limb ischemia (CLI), in which legs and feet do not receive blood because of severe blockage in the arteries and amputation can result.
2005 Wylie Scholar
Rajabrata Sarkar, MD, PhD - the genetic mechanisms regulating the growth of new arteries and ways to prevent damage from blood clots in the veins.
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