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
Stefanie Krick, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Krick’s lab focuses on the role of fibroblast growth factor signaling in inflammatory lung diseases. She has characterized fibroblast growth factor (FGF) 23 as a pro-inflammatory circulating factor contributing to the development of airway inflammation. In addition, she found that alpha-klotho, its co-receptor, can attenuate both inflammation and fibrosis in the diseased lung.
Dr. Krick received her medical degree in Germany as well as her PhD, which was in collaboration with the University of California, San Diego. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, in New York and her medical residency and pulmonary, critical care fellowship at the University of Miami, where she joined to become faculty in 2015. She joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2017.