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.

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Abolfazl Zarjou, MD, PhD

University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

(Affiliation at the time of recognition)

About the awardee

Abolfazl Zarjou, MD, PhD, is currently Assistant Professor at Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). He is an active physician-scientist with research interests focused on the iron metabolism/ferritin system in the context of acute kidney injury and vascular diseases. His research is currently supported by a K08 award to decipher the potential causal relationship between iron metabolism derangements during advanced CKD and vascular calcification. His research has been recognized for excellence by multiple societies including first place winner of Southern Society for Clinical Investigation Nephrology Young Investigators' Forum (2012) and first place winner of the National Kidney Foundation Young Investigators Forum (2017).