Svati Shah, MD, Ursula Geller Distinguished Professor of Research in Cardiovascular Diseases, received the Gill Heart and Vascular Institute Outstanding Contributions to Cardiovascular Research Award from the University of Kentucky.
This award recognizes notable and life-long achievements in research that have had a sustained impact on understanding cardiovascular biology and disease and/or that have changed the standard of cardiovascular clinical care. Shah will present her body of work at the Annual Gill Heart and Vascular Institute Cardiovascular Research Day on September 26, 2025.
Shah researches metabolic and genetic pathways of cardiometabolic diseases, integrating diverse genomic, metabolomic and proteomic techniques for identification of novel mechanisms of disease and biomarkers. Her multi-disciplinary molecular epidemiology lab within the DMPI has quantitative and molecular components and leverages large biorepositories on to perform discovery studies using omics technologies, with subsequent functional validation for mechanistic insight.