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The Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Prize in Cardiovascular Sciences provides national and international recognition and support to those at the forefront of cardiovascular sciences.
The recipient will be a leader in cardiovascular sciences, a physician or biomedical scientist who has made extraordinary and sustained leadership contributions to improving health care.
The Schottenstein Laureate will also receive an honorarium of $100,000 (US).
Established by a $2 million endowment from humanitarian philanthropists Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein, the prize is chartered to The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center’s Heart and Vascular Center, and will be awarded biennially.
2021 Schottenstein Prize Nomination Period Has Closed
2019 Schottenstein Prize Laureate
Dan Roden, MD
A native of Montreal, Canada, Dr. Roden received his medical degree and trained in Internal Medicine at McGill University. He began his career at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where he remains today, servings as Professor of Medicine, Pharmacology and Biomedical Informatics and as Senior Vice President for Personalized Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His research program studies how genetic variation affects human disease susceptibility, with a focus in cardiac rhythm abnormalities, and responses to drugs, also known as pharmocogenetics. After serving as chief of the division of Clinical Pharmacology for 12 years, he was tasked in 2006 with leading Vanderbilt’s efforts in Personalized Medicine. Under his leadership, Vanderbilt has become internationally-recognized for cutting edge programs in this area, including the large (250,000 sample) biobank BioVU and the EHR-based preemptive pharmacogenetic program PREDICT. He has been Principal Investigator for the Vanderbilt sites of the Pharmacogenomics Research Network since 2001 and of the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Network since 2007.
Past Winners of the Schottenstein Prize
Schottenstein Prize in Cardiovascular Sciences
Eligibility and Award Details
This prestigious prize provides national and international recognition to a physician or biomedical scientist who has made extraordinary and sustained leadership contributions to improving health care or who has successfully pursued innovative biomedical research with demonstrated translational benefits to patient care.
Those honored will be practitioners and/or scientists whose accomplishments and contributions have taken place over a career of dedicated and focused scientific discovery.
The prize is awarded biennially.
The 2021 nomination period has closed. An announcement of the 2021 Schottenstein Prize laureate will be forthcoming later this year.
About Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein
In 2008, Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein endowed $2 million to The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center to create the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Prize in Cardiovascular Sciences. As Ohio natives, Jay and Jeanie provided the prize to further establish Ohio State as a leader in cardiovascular care at a global level.
With an extensive record of charitable giving to local, national and international causes, the Schottensteins ensure decades of cardiovascular excellence at Ohio State with this prize that honors those who have made extraordinary contributions to improving the field of heart and vascular research and patient care.
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