After nearly 30 years, 12 award cycles and $7,000,000 in funding, the IARS Frontiers in Anesthesia Research Award (FARA) is concluding. FARA fostered innovation, creativity and scientific excellence for exceptional mid-career physician scientists. These individual investigators progressed to leadership roles tackling questions related to groundbreaking, innovative research such as Nociceptive Ion Channel TRPM3, Stretch-Inactivated Channels in Pain Transduction, Anesthetic Protection in Human Myocardium, Endothelial Inflammatory Pathways in Septic Vasculopathy, and much more.
Distinguished researchers were funded, careers were enhanced, and extraordinary scientific outcomes resulted, and continue to be ongoing. IARS is truly grateful to have had a role in the scientific advancement of these research endeavors, which were directly in line with our mission to generate and disseminate transformative breakthroughs in anesthesiology and perioperative medicine while supporting scientists worldwide.
Also in line with this mission, IARS has decided to shift a portion of its funding to focus on global anesthesia research endeavors, with a particular emphasis on low- and middle-income countries. With the creation of the Global Scholars Award and the IARS International Outreach Travel Grant, IARS is making robust inroads—building synergistic, global networks that will champion the power of academic research to drive medical advances and improve patient care. Through these new funding mechanisms, IARS aims to assist researchers from under-resourced countries to overcome financial barriers and fulfill their academic and leadership potential. Learn more here: https://iars.org/current-grants/
Past Recipients
Wayland Cheng, MD, PhD
Structural Pharmacology of the Nociceptive Ion Channel TRPM3
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Washington University in St. Louis
Saint Louis MO
Wei Chao, MD, PhD, FAHAExtracellular RNA, inflammation, and sepsis
The Dean’s Endowed Professor in Anesthesiology
Vice-Chair for Translational Research, Department of Anesthesiology
Associate Director, Shock Trauma Anesthesiology Research Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Judith Hellman, MDEndothelial inflammatory pathways in septic vasculopathy and organ injury
Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Ansgar Brambrink, MD, PhDLong-Term Outcome of Single vs. Triple Anesthesia Exposure of Infant Monkeys
Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Anesthesiologist-in-Chief, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
C. Michael Crowder, MD, PhDCellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Hypoxic and Anesthetic Preconditioning
During Award Period
Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology
Washington University, St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
Current Position
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Alan J. Treuer Endowed Professorship, Anesthesiology
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington
2021
Wayland Cheng, MD, PhD Structural Pharmacology of the Nociceptive Ion Channel TRPM3 Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis MO
2018
Wei Chao, MD, PhD, FAHAExtracellular RNA, inflammation, and sepsis
The Dean’s Endowed Professor in Anesthesiology
Vice-Chair for Translational Research, Department of Anesthesiology
Associate Director, Shock Trauma Anesthesiology Research Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
2015
Judith Hellman, MDEndothelial inflammatory pathways in septic vasculopathy and organ injury
Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California
2012
Ansgar Brambrink, MD, PhDLong-Term Outcome of Single vs. Triple Anesthesia Exposure of Infant Monkeys
Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Anesthesiologist-in-Chief, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
2009
C. Michael Crowder, MD, PhDCellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Hypoxic and Anesthetic Preconditioning
During Award Period
Associate Professor Department of Anesthesiology
Washington University, St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri
Current Position
Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Alan J. Treuer Endowed Professorship, Anesthesiology
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington
2007
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1995
International Anesthesia Research Society
GuideStar/Candid