ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022
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
Marie Guerraty, MD, PhD, received a BS in Mathematics from Duke University and a MD and PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Guerraty then completed residency training in internal medicine and cardiovascular clinical and research fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania. She is now an Assistant Professor with a basic-translational research program focused on the coronary microvasculature and funded by NHLBI, WW Smith Charitable Trust, and Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists. She uses interdisciplinary methods, including human genomics and deep phenotyping, translational mouse imaging and models, and traditional cell and molecular biology to understand the pathogenesis of coronary microvascular disease and develop novel therapeutic approaches.