The 2018 BAS Annual meeting,”From the vulnerable plaque to the vulnerable patient”was held at Queen’s College, Cambridge.
We heard state-of-the art talks from Robin Choudhury, Nilesh Samani, Helle Jorgensen, Jason Johnson, David Newby, Keith Channon, Zahi Fayad, Kausik Ray, Ziad Mallat and Arnold von Eckardstein
Talk Sketch from the talk of Professor Keith Channon by Dr Jane Goodall
Congratulations to our Michael Davies early career investigator prize winners and our poster prize winners
Michael Davies Early Career awards (Oral Presentations)
Winner: Alkystis Phinikaridou
Runners up: Ismail Cassimjee and Rikah Louie
Nominees: Sonali Munshaw, Marc Clement, Karina Di Gregoli
Poster awards
Winners: Inhye Park, Lucia Natarelli
Runners up: Adam Hartley, Annabel Taylor, Begona Lavin-Plaza, Stephen White
Hugh Sinclair Lecture
Professor Valentin Fuster gave the 2018 Hugh Sinclair lecture,
“Scientific Bases of Health: Imaging, Omics and Behavior”
Talk sketch by Dr Jane Goodall
Abstracts from the meeting are now published in Cardiovascular Research:
https://academic.oup.com/cardiovascres/issue/114/suppl_2?browseBy=volume
At the annual general meeting, Professor Sheila Francis joined the BAS committee, taking over from Dr Jason Johnson as Secretary. Thanks to Jason for all his hard work and welcome to Sheila!
See you at next year’s meeting in Keble College Oxford – meeting title “Controversies in Cardiovascular Medicine”, 26th – 27th September 2019. Updates will be posted here as the meeting develops.
