The British Society for Cardiovascular Research

BSCR SPRING MEETING, 2006

Title: "Cardiovascular Genomics"
Date: Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th March, 2006
Venue: Hinxton Hall Conference Centre, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge
Organisers: Dr Andrew Grace, Dr Jane Rogers and Dr Willem Ouwehand
Objectives: The principal objective is to present the current state-of-play in applied cardiovascular genetics. We also want to look forward and explore how high-throughput technologies can increase the pace of discovery.
Details: (also available for download here) (Word doc).
Final Programme: (also available for download here) (Word doc).
Selected abstracts will be published in Heart.
Clinical Science have generously sponsored a Young Research Worker's Prize, which was won by Rizwan Sarwar (Imperial College, London).
'A combined linkage and expression study of rat heart to identify primary drivers of cardiac hypertrophy.'
Rizwan Sarwar receiving the Clinical Science Prize
The BSCR Prize was won by Malathi Raman (National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London).
'Yeast one hybrid cloning of factors which bind a critical CACC/SP1 element in the human cardiac troponin I gene.'
Malathi Raman receiving the BSCR Prize

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