Research

Visiting Scientists & Scholars

Dedomenico Scholar in Residence:

This award provides scholars the opportunity to spend time in collaboration with scientists at the Hope Heart Program at the Benaroya Research Institute. It began in 2006 in honor of Hope benefactor and first Sauvage Fellow, Dr. Mark Dedomenico.

2010
Dr. Merv Merrilees
Auckland University

Dr. Merrilees traveled to Seattle to spend August working closely with Hope scientists, especially Dr. Tom Wight, at The Hope Heart Program at the Benaroya Research Institute.

Dr. Merrilees has long held a special interest in factors that affect the morphology, structure and matrix composition of tissues. Through a long standing collaboration with Dr. Wight, together the team has studied elastins, and their findings hold promise. Through gene manipulation they have discovered a way of switching on elastin synthesis and have been able to change the structure of the blood vessel wall to produce an intima that is elastin-rich. The aim now is to find a way of achieving this end through pharmaceutical approaches. The Hope is proud to support their successful collaboration.

Previous Dedomenico Scholars:

2009: Dr. Paul A. Keire
2008: Ingrid Harten, University of Washington
2007: Dr. Merv Merrilees; Auckland University, New Zealand
2006: Dr. Patrick Murphy, Seattle University

Sauvage Fellowship:

Fellows study advanced vascular surgical techniques in their first year. During the second they use these techniques in a clinical setting. Many Fellows then return to their practices, teach and/or lead research projects.

baohong cao

Baohong Cao MD, PhD

Dr. Cao is an assitant professor in the University of Pittsburgh tissue engineering group and is known for his discovery of stem cells existing in skeletal muscle that can be grown and multiplied.

As a Sauvage fellow he will utilize his stem cell expertise in the BEAT grant project which is using stem cells to repair myocardial infarcts (blockages of blood flow to the heart).

Dr. Cao's discoveries, skills and expertise will fill several niches in the ongoing work of The Hope Heart Program at Benaroya Research Institute.

Previous Sauvage Fellows:

1967: Mark Dedomenico; St. Louis University
1970: Yasutsugu Nakagawa; Chiba University, Japan
1972: James C. Smith; Loyola University
1973: Jose Ramos; University of Guoyoqui, Ecuador
           Shakroukh Bakhshay; Grant College, Bombay, India
           John B. Overton; University of North Carolina
           Leo Beilin; Stanford University
1974: Richard Schloemer; University of Michigan
           Christopher Davis; Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
           Dale G. Hall; University of Colorado
1975: Thomas P. Massello; Boston University
1976: Moir M. Budden; Christian Medical School, India
           Joseph B. O'Conner; University College, Dublin, Ireland
           Guiseppe Dibenedetto; Italy
1977: Luis Torres; University of Mexico
           Aires A. B. Barros D'Sa; The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Ireland, UK
1978: Tomoyoshi Atsuta; Asahikawa Medical College, Japan
            Lance Ray; Tulane University
            David Kenney; University of Pennsylvania
1979: Henry Crowhurst; St. Louis University
           Michael Sweeney; Baylor University
1980: John Diaconou; University of Athens, Greece
           Mete Cengiz; University of Hacettepe, Ankara, Turkey
           Hong-De Wu; Shanghai Medical University, China
1981:David Kenney; University of Pennsylvania
          Michael Streicher; University of Illinois
1982: Michael Zammit; Royal University of Malta, Malta
           Lise Goldberg; Johns Hopkins University
           Sergio Boubieri; Rome, Italy
1983: Sven Mathisen; University of Oslo, Norway
1984: Gregory Schultz; University of Minnesota
            Yoshiyuki Usui; Okayama University, Japan
1985: Thomas E. Kowalsky; Temple University
           Steven Goff; Indiana University
1986: Richard E. Arnell; University of Miami
1987: Keith R. Durante; St. George's University School of Medicine
1988: Malay Patel; India
           Tatsuda Imada; Fukuoka University, Japan
1989: Qun Shi; Shanghai Medical University, China
1990: Naoki Hayashida; Chiba University, Japan
           Sherif El-Massry; El-Mansoura University, Egypt
           Yuichi Izumi; Asahikawa Medical College, Japan
1991: Dirk Rodriquez; Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto Rico
           Ehab Saad; El-Mansoura University, Egypt
           Katsuhiko Nakamura; Fukuoka University, Japan
1992: Hiroki Yoshida; Asahikawa Medical College, Japan
1993: Paul H. B. Blair; The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Ireland, UK
           Yasuhiro Kouchi; Yamaguchi University, Japan
           Tadahiro Sasajima; Asahikawa Medical College, Japan
          Yoko Onuki-Pearce; Chiba University, Japan
1994: Neil Browning; University of the Orange Free State, Capetown, South Africa
           Rafik Ghali; Laval University, Quebec
1995: Afzaal Ahmad; Bradford Royal Infirmary, England
1996: Yuji Fujita; Yamaguchi, Japan
           Atsushi Ishida
1997: Kurt Dwight Lindquist
           Vishwanath Bhattacharya; UK
1998: Yuji Saito
           Esteban Ambrad-Chalela; Colombia
1999: Hei-Jin Chung
2000: Lance Diehl; Philadelphia, PA
2001: Esteban Ambrad-Chalela; Colombia

**Former Sauvage Fellows**