The American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and the ASE Foundation have awarded three $25,000 grants to early-career investigators through the society’s Early-Career Development Grant for Echo Scientists (EDGES) program.
The 2026 recipients and their projects are as follows:
- Prerana Bhatia, MD, University of California, San Diego. Bhatia will work to identify echocardiographic markers of subclinical hemodynamic maladaptation in pregnant patients with unexplained volume overload.
- Christopher Kocx, MBBS, University of Sydney, Australia. Kocx will develop and validate an automated echocardiographic pipeline for integrated right-heart assessment using an archive of more than 60,000 echocardiograms.
- Lionel Tastet, PhD, Université Laval, Québec City. Tastet will validate left atrial blood flow analysis from echocardiographic vector flow mapping as a noninvasive marker of arrhythmic risk in patients with aortic stenosis.
The annual EDGES grants are funded by charitable donations to the ASE Foundation. Since 2023, the society has awarded $325,000 to 13 EDGES recipients.
