Research Associate Receives Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the AHA

Congratulations to Huafeng Wang, PhD, who was recently awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association (AHA) of $110,300 over 2 years. For his project, “New Adjuvants for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Fungal Infections,” Dr. Wang, under the mentorship of Marcel Wüethrich, PhD, and Bruce Klein, MD, will identify fungal cell wall ligand(s) that are recognized by Dectin-2 (a C-type lectin receptor) and test their adjuvancy with a safe subunit fungal vaccine. Findings from this project will ultimately advance methods of prevention among cardiovascular patients that are at risk of fungal infection.