Kristin Haraldsdottir Wins American Physiological Society Abstract Award

Congratulations to Kristin Haraldsdottir, graduate student in the lab of Marlowe Eldridge, MD, who was selected to receive a Caroline tum Suden/Frances Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Award, named in honor of Caroline tum Suden and Frances Hellebrandt. This award of $500, plus reimbursement for meeting registration for the Experimental Biology 2017 meeting in Chicago, IL, is for her abstract entitled, “Blunted stroke volume response to exercise in adolescent children born premature. A Cardiac MRI Study.” The award from the American Physiological Society (APS), provides funds for junior physiologists to attend and participate fully in the Experimental Biology meeting, and is a merit award granted to graduate students or postdoctoral fellows who are the first author of an abstract submitted to the APS and who are APS members. Experimental Biology, the APS annual meeting, is conducted jointly with other Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) member societies, and will be held in April 22-27, 2017 in Chicago.