Dr Katie Chan has been granted the Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award presented by the American Heart Association for an abstract submitted to the EPI | Lifestyle Scientific Sessions 2022.

As one of the American Heart Association founders, Paul Dudley White was also a champion for global cardiovascular health strategies. The award recognises authors with the highest ranked abstract submitted from each country/region. The study aims to identify the overlapping genetic patterns for diabesity incidence in 3,231 self-reported African American (AA) and 8,252 European Americans (EA) participated in four cohorts of the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) consortium. The study demonstrated both pathway and network-based analytical approaches may identify novel signals from gene sets for highly clustering clinical phenotypes such as diabetes and obesity and improve their target validation for intervention. As the primary author, Dr Chan’s stellar work chosen by her peers reflects Dr White’s vision for global excellence in cardiovascular science and medicine.

The award-winning abstract will be recognised at EPI | Lifestyle Scientific Sessions 2022, which will take place from 1 to 4 March 2022, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Congratulations on Dr Chan’s superb work!