Jessica A. Martel, a 28-year-old doctorate student at Dartmouth College in Hanover will appear in the American Heart Association's 2008-2009 Founders Affiliate Research Report, slated for release in October.
Approximately 20,000 copies of the Research Report will be distributed to American Heart Association volunteers and sponsors throughout the organization's Founders Affiliate, which consists of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. The Research Report educates the public on the efforts of American Heart Association-funded researchers, who are working to put an end to heart disease and stroke, the No. 1 and No. 3 killers of Americans.
The recipient of the American Heart Association's Predoctoral Fellowship (a two-year, $21,000 grant that helps students start their research careers), Martel's research is focused on hypertension (high blood pressure), which affects more than 62 million Americans.
As a young scientist, hypertension is daunting, Martel says. It's such a huge problem and I'm not going to solve it, but I'm doing my part.
For more information on research in the American Heart Association's Founders Affiliate, visit americanheart.org/research.
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