Fellows
Porama Koy Thanaporn
2008-2011 Fellow
Porama Koy Thanaporn joined the Section of Vascular Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine as clinical fellow in 2008. Koy received his undergraduate degrees in Bioengineering and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania summa cum laude where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar and was elected to Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Koy graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 2005. He has co-authored articles which have been published in Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology; Journal of Vascular Surgery; and Surgery. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in 2008. His interests include vascular biology, engineering of vascular grafts, and translational research with a focus on therapeutic angiogenesis.
Nick Leeper
2009-2012 Fellow
Dr. Leeper will be an Instructor of Medicine and a member of the Stanford Vascular Medicine and Biology Program beginning in the 2009-2010 academic year. He holds degrees with honors in Chemistry and Medicine from the University of Chicago, and completed his Internal Medicine training at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Leeper joined the Clinical Investigator Pathway at Stanford University in 2005, and served as the Division’s Chief Cardiovascular Fellow in 2007. His academic interests focus on pathological vascular processes such as atherosclerosis, vessel inflammation, endothelial cell dysfunction, and aneurysm formation. Ongoing research efforts are specifically aimed at elucidating the role of microRNAs in vascular diseases and studying novel methods of inducing vascular regeneration.