ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2024
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
Arun Jose, MD, MS received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2012. He stayed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital to complete his internal medicine training as part of the “Osler” residency program, followed by a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the George Washington University. After completing his sub-specialty training in 2018, he was recruited to the University of Cincinnati as a clinical instructor and selected as one of three Internal Medicine Scholarly Training in Academic Research (IMSTAR) fellows, a program developed to prepare young faculty for careers in academic research. Completing his IMSTAR fellowship receiving a Master’s Degree in Clinical and Translational Research in 2019, he opted to remain at the University of Cincinnati, being promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor and named the Director of Pulmonary Hypertension at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center.
Dr. Jose’s current research interests include identification and validation of novel biomarkers in pulmonary vascular disease, with a focus on pulmonary vascular disease due to liver disease (Portopulmonary Hypertension). He has presented his work, in both abstract and symposium forms, at numerous national scientific meetings (Chest, International Society of Heart and Lung Disease, American Thoracic Society, Grover, etc.), and has authored multiple peer-reviewed original research articles on pulmonary vascular disease. His work has been recognized by a number of awards, including a 2017 ATS Abstract Scholarship, a 2020 American Thoracic Society Young Investigator Award, a 2021 Center for Clinical and Translational Science and Training KL2 award, and a 2021 Parker B. Francis Fellowship Award. He is currently supported by a NIH NHLBI K23 award. In his free time Dr. Jose is an avid practitioner of traditional Japanese martial arts, holding the rank of second degree black belt in Shorinjiryu Kenyukai Karate.