Cardiovascular Center’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cardiovascular Sciences
The goal of the Cardiovascular Center’s T32 Training Program is to train the next generation of cardiovascular scientists, including those that are racially and ethnically diverse, by incorporating broad-based, personalized, inclusive, supportive and rigorous training opportunities.
Accepting applications year-round. Spring 2020 Application Cycle Deadline is March 13, 2020.
This three-year training commitment emphasizes critical components designed to launch/sustain research careers:
1) individualized development plans (IDPs),
2) personalized multidisciplinary mentoring teams,
3) training in core competencies, and
4) industry/biotechnology or scientific liaison career options for trainees not pursuing a traditional career in academia.
Additional support for trainees is provided by a grant from the A. O. Smith Foundation for the CVC’s A. O. Smith Fellowship Scholars Program. This unique program is designed to support talented cardio-vascular researchers and physicians in an innovative educational program that aims to provide mentoring, training, research support, and the necessary resources to overcome the barriers that exist to launching and sustaining a successful research career.
Program Leadership

Ivor Benjamin, MD, FAHA, FACC
Director, Cardiovascular Center; Professor, Medicine, Physiology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, and Surgery; Program Director, CVC T32 Training Program

David D. Gutterman, MD
Northwestern Mutual Professor of Medicine; Senior Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center; Program Director, CVC T32 Training Program

Mary Sorci-Thomas, PhD
Professor, Medicine (Endocrinology); Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center; Associate Program Director, CVC T32 Training Program
Current Postdoctoral Fellows


Jing Liu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty Mentor: Mingyu Liang, MB, PhD


Past Postdoctoral Fellows
Moua Yang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellowship Information
This program provides up to three years of training for postdoctoral fellows with an MD, PhD, PharmD, or DO degree (two new slots/year) and brings together 46 basic scientists and translational investigators to serve as mentors in a program that is supported by specific research areas of scientific excellence (“Signature Programs”), a highly-integrated collaborative research environment, and access to an extensive research infrastructure.
Program Staff


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