2024 Heart to Heart Grant Recipients
Alpha Phi Foundation is pleased to announce the two recipients of the Heart to Heart Grant for 2024. In its 31st year, the Foundation created a new arm of eligibility for the Heart to Heart Grant to better serve funding in the cardiac space, through traditional bench research or education and programming projects.
Heart to Heart Grant Clinical Recipient The Heart to Heart Grant Clinical recipient is Barnes- Jewish Hospital. They will use their $100,000 grant for the project “cFAS Blood Biomarker to Diagnose Peripheral Arterial Disease in Women.” This will utilize a patented biomarker for circulated fatty acid synthase (cFAS) discovered at the hospital to help identify patient risk for developing Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD). Led by Dr. Mohamed Zayed, a vascular surgeon at the hospital, he and his research team hypothesize that this biomarker is elevated for women who have a diagnosis of Type II Diabetes and that there is a correlation in these women who also have chronic limb threatening ischemia (CLTI). CLTI is the leading cause for limb amputation in the United States and is a severe progression of PAD. Heart to Heart Grant Community Recipient The Heart to Heart Grant Community recipient is the University of Missouri. They will use their $25,000 grant for the project “Missouri CARES Heart Squad,” which embarks on a mission to increase the rate of bystander CPR and AED usage across the state, focusing on the utilization of female training manikins. Led by Dr. Julie Stilley and Kayla Riel — both emergency medicine professionals — the goal of this program is to eliminate barriers to Missourians receiving bystander intervention, as there are disparities prevalent that are both gender- and race- based.
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