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Rafael Sobrano Fais, PhD

Rafael Sobrano Fais

Rafael Sobrano Fais, PhD, is a researcher and instructor at National Jewish Health.



Special Interests


Pulmonary hypertension, Sexual differences in pulmonary hypertension-induced inflammation, Role of inflammatory mediators in cardiovascular diseases, Cardiovascular hemodynamics, In vivo experiments (large and small animals)

Education


Education

2018 - 2019
Aarhus University, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus, Denmark, Joint Ph.D. Student (Pharmacology)
2016 - 2020
University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil, Ph.D., Pharmacology
2014 - 2016
University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, Department of Pharmacology, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil, M.Sc., Pharmacology
2006 - 2013
Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil, B.Sc., Physiotherapy

Awards & Recognition


2025: Finalist for the Cournand & Comroe Early Career Investigator Award Competition at Scientific Sessions 
2024: American Thoracic Society Pulmonary Circulation Assembly Jane Morse Award
2024: American Thoracic Society Underrepresented Trainee Development Scholarship
2023: American Heart Association Junior Investigator Award
2022: Honorable Mention for Best Basic Science Research Paper, International Society of Sexual Medicine
2022: National Jewish Health Basic Science Travel Award
2022: American Thoracic Society Minority Trainee Development Scholarship
2022: Seventeenth International Conference on Endothelin Abstract-Based Domestic Registration Award
2019: Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology Grant on Mechanisms of Vasodilatation/Endothelium-Dependent Hyperpolarization Congress
2018: Honorable Mention at the XXII Brazilian Congress on Cardiovascular Physiology
2017: Young Investigator Award, 15th International Conference on Endothelin

Professional Memberships


American Heart Association, American Thoracic Society

Academic Affiliations


National Jewish Health