Tenth Annual Marion Merrell Dow Hypertension Research Clinical Fellowship Award. 1993.

The Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association is pleased to announce that Luis Juncos, MD, was the winner of the Tenth Annual Marion Merrell Dow Hypertension Research Clinical Fellowship Award. Dr Juncos received this award for presenting the winning paper in a competition among physicians training in hypertension research that took place at the annual Council for High Blood Pressure Research meeting held in San Francisco on September 28 through October 1, 1993. Dr Juncos' paper was entitled "Flow Modulation of Angiotensin (Ang II) Action in Isolated Microperfused Rabbit Afferent Arterioles (Af-Arts)." His sponsors were Sadayoski Ito, MD, PhD, and Oscar A. Carretero, MD. The competition was initiated in 1984 through a generous educational grant-in-aid from Marion Merrell Dow Laboratories with the goal of stimulating careers in clinical or fundamental research in hypertension for investigators in training. The award committee invites all fellows of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research to submit research abstracts by any physician-research fellow in training with US, Canadian, or Mexican citizenship. Physicians who are selected to present research work receive an all-expense-paid trip to the council's fall meeting. For Dr Juncos' presentation, he received an additional award of $3,000. Drs Ito and Carretero, his research mentors, received a generous award of $25,000, which can be applied to a future fellowship for another physician to train in the area of hypertension research.