Rafael Sobrano Fais, PhD
Rafael Sobrano Fais, PhD, is a researcher and instructor at National Jewish Health.
- Instructor
- Department of Medicine
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