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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52 awardees
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40 awardees
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40 awardees
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35 awardees
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40 awardees
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33 awardees
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26 awardees
John S. Chorba, MD
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
(Affiliation at the time of recognition)
About the awardee
John Chorba, MD, is a physician-scientist and cardiologist focusing on developing chemical tools to investigate the mechanistic basis of cardiovascular disease and develop novel therapies. Dr. Chorba graduated from Harvard Medical School, completed his internal medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and his clinical cardiology fellowship at UCSF. He performed his postdoctoral work under Kevan Shokat at UCSF, where he is now an Assistant Adjunct Professor.