BCVS 2010 Archive

Science News from Basic Cardiovascular Sciences 2010 Scientific Sessions - Technological and Conceptual Advances in Cardiovascular Disease

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BCVS 2010 Scientific Sessions

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Wednesday, July 21

	Large Scale Candidate Gene Microarrays Thomas Cappola, MD, ScM University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Presentation Slides
	Cardiac Gene Therapy: Beyond the Mouse David Kaye, MD, PhD Baker Medical Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia Presentation Slides
	Clinical Trials of Cardiac Gene Therapy Roger Hajjar, MD Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY Presentation Slides

iPS for Cardiogenesis
Andre Terzic, MD, PhD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Presentation Slides

	Signaling Microdomains Regulating Cardiac Hypertrophy Paul Rosenberg, MD Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC Presentation Slides
	Novel Signaling Pathways Related to Nuclear Translocation Walter J. Koch, PhD Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA Presentation Slides

	Featured Lecture: Wnt Signaling and Age-Associated Diseases Issei Komuro, MD, PhD Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba, Japan Presentation Slides
	Functional Implications of Focal Phosphatases Yibin Wang, PhD David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Presentation Slides
	ASKing About 14-3-3zeta Thomas L. Force, MD Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA Presentation Slides

Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 Cardiovascular Outreach Award!
This award was developed to encourage participation of minority early career investigators and students in the 2010 BCVS Scientific Sessions.
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Karl Pendergrass II, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Christopher Traynham, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
David Zacharias, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Tuesday, July 20

Monday, July 19

Dear Colleague,

The summer season has become synonymous with gathering of scientists throughout the world for the premier meeting of basic cardiovascular research. This July the American Heart Association Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS) committee will once again host the BCVS Scientific Sessions. The theme of “Technological and Conceptual Advances in Cardiovascular Disease” is timely, broad based, and cutting edge. The program assembled by co-chairs Drs. Gerald Dorn and Peipei Ping is truly world class and promises to be the most talked about gathering of the year for basic researchers in this field.

Mark Sussman, PhD

Chair, BCVS Leadership Committee

Congratulations to Dr. Roger Tsien, winner of the Distinguished Scientist Award. Award plaque to be presented by Gerald Dorn.

About this award...
Distinguished Scientist designation honors AHA/ASA members who have made extraordinary contributions to cardiovascular and stroke research. This prestigious title is bestowed on a select group of prominent scientists whose work has importantly advanced our understanding of cardiovascular disease and stroke.
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Finalists for the 2010 Award will be presented Tuesday, July 20 at 1:30 p.m.

   -   Camkii Determines Mitochondrial Stress Responses in Heart
       Mei-ling A. Joiner  |   Presentation Slides

   -   Regulation of Tropomyosin Phosphorylation in Normal and Cardiomyopathic Hearts
       Sudarsan Rajan   |   Presentation Slides

   -   cGMP-PKG Upregulates PGC1α and Improves Cardiac Function in Advanced Cardiac Hypertrophy Independently of RGS2
       Eiki Takimoto   |   Presentation Slides

About this award...
Early Career Investigator Awards recognize promising and outstanding investigators in the early stages of their careers, stimulate continued interest in basic or clinical research, and help early career investigators participate in AHA meetings.   Early career investigators are Ph.D.s and/or M.D.s who are still in training (i.e., residency, fellowship, etc.) or have completed training within the last four years; or Ph.D.s and/or M.D.s who are still within in the first four years after their first faculty appointment as of the award application date.
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Research is a major weapon in our fight against cardiovascular diseases and stroke. Read about our strategy to fight these diseases, our commitment to support early career investigators, our goals for the future, our distribution of dollars and much more. Research Facts 2010

Number of research grants awarded for Basic Science in 2009: 891
Next round of application deadlines: January 2011
In 2009, the American Heart Association awarded $117,425,464 in research grants for Basic Science.
In July 2008, the American Heart Association granted $27,000 for a Basic Science training program for medical students in cardiovascular research at Florida Atlantic University.
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