Opportunities

Each of the sites in this Leducq Network has opportunities for fellows to work on the projects described here. Research can include clinical studies (e.g. ECG markers of risk), experiences in genotyping or in genetic epidemiology, and studies of basic mechanisms underlying SCD risk.

Studies can be undertaken at a single Network site, and interested fellows can contact the principal investigators at each site (please visit Network members). In addition, Fondation Leducq and members of this Network are especially eager to foster the careers of junior investigators by supporting fellowship experiences that include exchanges among multiple sites across the Atlantic. Further information can be obtained by contacting individual sites, or from Fondation Leducq website.

Fondation Leducq Transatlantic Fellowship Awards
The objectives of the Young Investigator Program are to develop outstanding researchers capable of performing original and innovative cardiovascular or neurovascular research in an international and collaborative context; to train young investigators in translational research through interactive investigation with a Leducq network comprised of basic science and clinical researchers; to support the career development of these young investigators; and to reinforce the objectives of the Transatlantic Networks of Excellence Program.

Fondation Leducq Transatlantic Fellowship Award winners:
For 2007- 2008:Darshan Dalal, Johns Hopkins University. Project title: Role of inflammation, renal function and NOS1AP gene in Ventricular arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death.

For 2008 - 2009:Matti Juhani Junttila, University of Oulu, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Finland. Project title:Genetic/Genomic Contributions to Individual Risk Prediction of Sudden Cardiac Death.