2006 Van Wagenen Fellowship Awardees Selected
For the first time in 39 years, two applicants have been awarded the 2006 William P. Van Wagenen Fellowship: Yu-Hung Kuo, MD, PhD, of Weill-Cornell Medical School, and Uzma Samadani, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Kuo attended medical school at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and currently is a neurosurgeical resident at New York Hospital, Weill-Cornell Medical School. Dr. Kuo will be studying radiation induction of gene therapy in the central nervous system with Brian Brophy, FRACS, at Flinders Medical Centre in Australia.
Dr. Samadani attended medical school at the University of Illinois and currently is a neurosurgical resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She will pursue her interest in minimally invasive management of intracerebral hemorrhage with Veit Rohde, MD, at the University of Goettingen in Germany.
Their training, which will begin July 1, 2006, will be completed within the 12-month period of the grant.
The William P. Van Wagenen Fellowship was established by the estate of Dr. Van Wagenen, who was one of the founders and the first president of the Harvey Cushing Society, now the AANS. The fellowship is offered annually for post-residency study in a foreign country for a period of 12 months. In 2004 the award stipend was increased to $60,000 with an additional $6,000 available for family travel expenses and $15,000 of research support available to the laboratory sponsoring the Van Wagenen Fellow.
Applications for the 2007 Van Wagenen Fellowship are due Oct. 1, 2006. The application is available online at www.aans.org/research/fellowship/aans.asp.