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Zhang receives AHA Career Development Award

Rong Mei Zhang, MD
Rong Mei Zhang, MD

Rong Mei Zhang, MD, Instructor in Medicine, earned a three-year, $231,000 Career Development Award from the American Heart Association (AHA). The award will fund Dr. Zhang’s research in evaluating the role of inflammation in glomerular injury in diabetic kidney disease.

The AHA Career Development Award supports highly promising healthcare and academic professionals, in the early years of one’s first professional appointment, to explore innovative questions or pilot studies that will provide preliminary data and training necessary to assure the applicant’s future success as a research scientist.