ASCI / Emerging-Generation Awards, 2022
The Emerging Generation Awards (E-Gen Awards) recognize post-MD, pre-faculty appointment physician-scientists who are meaningfully engaged in immersive research.
About the awardee
Konrad T. Sawicki, MD, PhD, is a senior cardiology fellow and post-doctoral researcher at Northwestern University. Dr. Sawicki received his BS degree in Biochemistry from the University of Michigan. He subsequently obtained his MD and PhD degrees at Northwestern University, where he studied cellular and mitochondrial iron regulation in the heart and post-transcriptional regulation of hepatic metabolism under Dr. Hossein Ardehali. Dr. Sawicki joined the Physician-Scientist Training Program at Northwestern University and has completed his internal medicine residency and the majority of his clinical cardiology fellowship. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha and is heavily involved in the American Heart Association (AHA), and serves on the Genomic and Precision Medicine Early Career Committee as well as the Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Diabetes Committee. Dr. Sawicki is conducting his post-doctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Elizabeth McNally, in close collaboration with Dr. Issam Ben-Sahra and Dr. John Wilkins. At the basic science research level, Dr. Sawicki is interested in understanding how mitochondrial membrane proteins regulate cardiac metabolism and how dietary interventions affect myocardial metabolism. At the clinical and translational research levels, Dr. Sawicki is interested in using polygenic risk scores and metabolomic techniques to guide precision medicine in cardiometabolic disease and preventive cardiology.