The British Society for Cardiovascular Research

BSCR AUTUMN MEETING, 2005

Title: "Stress Signals in the Cardiovascular System"
Date: Thursday 15th and Friday 16th September, 2005
Venue: St Thomas’ Hospital, London
Organisers: Professor Michael Marber and Professor Metin Avkiran
Meeting details are available to download here (Word doc)
The Final Programme is available (Word doc)
Selected abstracts have been published in Heart
Clinical Science have generously sponsored a Young Research Worker's Prize, which was won by:
X. Yin, Q. Xiao, U. Mayr, M. Mayr, Q. Xu. Department of Cardiac and Vascular Sciences, St George's, University of London.
'Proteomic analysis reveals higher demand for antioxidant protection in embryonic stem cell-derived smooth muscle cells.'
The BSCR Prize was won by:
E. Martin-Rendon(1), C. Wilmot(1), C. Carr(2), D. Stuckey(2), S. Hale(1), K. Clarke(2), S.M. Watt(1,3). (1)Stem Cell Research Laboratory, National Blood Service, Oxford Centre, Oxford; (2)Cardiac Metabolism Research Group, Department of Physiology, University of Oxford; (3)Nuffield Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Oxford.
'Hypoxic preconditioning promotes proliferation of mesenchymal stem cells in vitro and does not alter their effects in the infarcted rat heart in vivo.'


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