ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2021
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
Matthew R. Alexander, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Divisions of Clinical Pharmacology and Cardiovascular Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He attended Duke University for his undergraduate studies followed by training in the Medical Scientist Training (MD/PhD) Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He subsequently joined the Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Harrison Society, or Physician Scientist Training Program, where he completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine followed by a Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship. As part of his fellowship he performed postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Meena Madhur on the role of adaptive immunity in hypertension. His independent research program is focused on the role of counter-regulatory immune mechanisms in the pathogenesis of hypertension and related end-organ damage. Dr. Alexander also practices clinically in general cardiology with a focus on advanced hypertension.