ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2020
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Anna V. Mathew, MBBS, is dual boarded in adult and pediatric nephrology and trained exclusively to provide nephrology care for patients across the age spectrum. After her fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Mathew joined the University of Michigan to expand on her research training in cardiovascular biology and analytical mass spectrometry. She uses these techniques to explore molecular mechanisms of atherosclerosis in animal models and in clinical studies to address elevated burden of cardiovascular disease in kidney patients. Dr. Mathew is exceptionally productive and has a total of 27 peer-reviewed papers (9 first author) published in high impact journals like Nature Immunology, Nature Microbiology, Diabetes Care, and Diabetes. She was awarded the Elizabeth Caroline Crosby Research Award and four pilot grants in the last two years. Dr. Mathew was also awarded young investigator award in the International Society of Nephrology and Metabolomics meetings. Her work was named the ‘Top Oral abstract by Trainee’ in the annual American Society of Nephrology 2014, and her work was awarded distinction in scholarship in Physiological Genomics by the American Physiological Society. In 2016, she was awarded a K08 career development grant and promoted to Assistant Professor with an independent research team and lab.