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Ferdinand C. Valentine Fellowship for Research in Urology

Past Recepients

2008-2009
Maurico Davalos, MD
New York Medical College
Oxidative Renal Cell Injury Induced by Calcium Oxalate and Renoprotection with Antioxidants: A Possible Role of Oxidative Stress in Nephrolithiasis

Gerald Y. Tan, MD
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Novel use of multiphoton microscopy & second-harmonic generation for intra-operative real-time flourescent imaging of peri-prostatic neural architecture during nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy to improve potency outcomes: a controlled study in a rat model

2007-2008
Steven A. Boorjian, MD
Mayo Clinic
Expression of Inhibitory T Cell Coregulatory Molecules in Primary and Metastic Urothelial Cell Carcinoma of the Bladder

Howard H. Kim, MD
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Investigation of the Pathophysiology of Leydig Cell Dysfunction and Impaired Spermatogenesis Using a Novel Mouse Varicocele Model

2006-2007
George J. Huang, MD
University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Patterns of Care in Bladder Cancer: Emerging Trends Over Time

2005-2006
Ricardo R. Gonzalez, MD
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Modulating Bladder Neuroinflammation: Investigating Potential Diagnostics and Therapeutics for Interstitial Cystitis

Richard Lee, MD
Children's Hospital Boston
The Identification of a Urinary Biomarker of Upper Tract Obstruction Using Proteomic Analysis in a Neonatal and Adult Rat Model

2004-2005
Saurabh Agarwal, MD
New York Medical College
Possible renoprotection against nephrotoxic agents by glutathione in rats: Role of specific glutathione-dependent enzyme

Michael P. Zahalsky, MD, MMS
Laboratory of David C. Page, MD, Whitehead Institute
Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
X-Linked Testis Genes and Human Spermatogenic Failure

2003-2004
David Yen Tang Chen, MD
New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center
Characterization of Neutral Endopeptidas - anti-PSMA mAb J591 Fusion Protein and Applications as Therapy for Advanced Prostate Cancer

Jeffrey Michael Donohoe, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Effects of Specific Angiotensin Receptor Subtype Blockade on Bladder Fibrosis

John Stephen Lam, MD (Honorable Mention)
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Characterization of Carbonic Anhydrase (CA IX) as a Tumor-Associated Antigen for Target-Directed Vaccine Therapy of Renal Cell Carcinoma

2002-2003
Assad El-Hakim, MD
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Laparoscopic Bowel Injury: Evaluation of the Immune Response

Rosalia Misseri, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine
Determining the Hydrostatic Threshold for Bladder Injury

2001-2002
Carin V. Hopps, MD
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
Molecular Investigation of Human Spermatogenesis

Albert A. Samadi, MD
New York Medical College
Mechanism of Cathepsin D Activation and Its Regulation in Prostate Cancer

Douglas S. Scherr, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
The Role of p27 in Prostate Epithelial Cell Proliferation/Differentiation

2000-2001
No Fellowships awarded

1999-2000
Robert Soe-Hliang Lai, MD
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Electric Neuromodulation in the Treatment of the Neurogenic Bladder Following Spinal Cord Injury

1998-1999
Badrinath R. Konety, MD
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Molecular Characterization of a Novel Nuclear Matrix Protein Associated with Bladder Cancer

Mark B. Noss, MD, MSc
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center
Immunogenetic Etiology of Peyronie’s Disease

1997-1998
Gary E. Lemack, MD
University of Texas – Southwestern Medical Center
Lower Urinary Tract Development and Physiology in Mice Lacking Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase