BMS Young Investigators' Symposium: Advances in the Microcirculation

An excellent scientific event held at the University of Warwick, with international participants from Russia, Italy, Poland and Germany.
An outstanding series of young scientists presented undergraduate projects, PhD research and post-doctoral studies, topics ranging from fundamental endothelial signalling to cancer, retinal, cardiovascular and stroke mechanisms, biomarkers and treatments.
The organisers are to be congratulated on a well-run, well-chaired and lively event, fully justifying its generous support by major UK cognate societies and organisations, including the British Pharmacological Society, the Physiology Society, the Company of Biologists, The Richard Bright VEGF Research Trust, and the British Heart Foundation, complementing core support by the British Microcirculation Society, and making the event affordable for young life scientists interested in the microcirculation, including support in the form of travel bursaries for abstract presenters.
Future BMS Young Investigators' Symposia deserve to be a priority in the meetings' diary for young UK and international scientists interested in the microcirculation and in a friendly forum for first presentations, asking a first question of colleagues and more senior presenters, and making research contacts for their future careers: next provisionally set for 2 years time.
Look out for BMS events at the International Union of Physiological Societies Congress in Birmingham 21-26 July 2013 and the joint BMS-BPS symposium on new pharmacological targets in the microcirculation at Pharmacology 2013 in December in London.
See more at BMS Young Investigators blog.

New treatment targets in the microcirculation

A joint symposium organized by the British Pharmacological Society and the British Microcirculation Society on 'New pharmacological targets in the microcirculation' will take place from 9.30am - 12.30pm on Thursday 19th December 2013.

This is one of the 10 symposia taking planned for Pharmacology 2013 - the next BPS annual winter meeting, to be held Tuesday 17th - Thursday 19th December, 2013  at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London.

The following 5 themes will be addressed during the symposium:

- microcirculation pharmacology and therapeutic targets by Professor Chris Garland, University of Oxford, UK;

- leukocyte trafficking through microvessels: emergence of novel anti-inflammatory therapeutic avenues by Professor Sussan Nourshargh, Queen Mary University of London

- new approaches for modulating retinal angiogenesis by Professor Alan Stitt, Queen’s University Belfast, UK;

- pharmacological approaches for reducing risk of microvascular stroke

syndromes by Professor Donald Singer, University of Warwick, UK

- microvascular targets in oncology by Professor Kristian Pietras, University of Lund, Sweden.

Abstracts are welcome for Pharmacology 2013 on this microcirculation theme, in addition to the wide range of themes relevant to the spectrum of pharmacology from bench to bedside, disease prevention and beyond.

Pharmacology 2013 (formerly the BPS Winter Meeting) attracts around 800 scientists each year, from throughour the UK, from across Europe and from overseas. The meeting includes a selection of topical symposia, plenary lectures, free oral communications and poster sessions which cover the many aspects of pharmacology from basic to clinical science.

Abstracts and registration for Pharmacology 2013 will open in early Autumn 2013.

Microcirculation symposium programme - Thursday 19th December, 2013

Advances in Microcirculation 2013, Warwick

@HealthMed The British Microcirculation Society is holding its 2013 Spring meeting at the University of Warwick campus. This one day meeting is being organised by the BMS Young Investigators group

Title: Advances in Microcirculation 2013: Early Career Investigator Symposium

Date: Saturday 13th April

Venue: Medical Teaching Centre, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick (building 42 on campus map)

Conference dinner and awards: Saturday evening, 13th April

Delegates: UK and international scientists from academic centres, biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical industry, and other interested professionals

Themes include:

• Vascular inflammation
• Angiogenesis
• Regulation of permeability and blood flow

Peer-reviewed communications: oral and poster sessions

The conference includes a workshop on ‘Shaping your career in vascular research’.

Affordable accommodation is available on the Warwick campus - register early to avoid disappointment!

For further details: email the organisers.

BMS website 

Microcirculation and the 2012 UK-US international Conference

@HealthMed The MicroCirc2012 conference at Keble College Oxford, 4-6 July, was co-organized by the British Microcirculation Society and the US Microcirculatory Society. 

Why study the microcirculation? The microvessels - small arteries, capillaries and small venules - play a vital role in providing nutrition to and removing waste products from vital organs. Microvessels are also critical for healthy maintenance of blood pressure. 

D Singer and PhD student H Saedon at MicroCirc2012

And in a wide range of diseases, a spectrum of inflammatory factors, acting on and/or derived from the microcirculation, contribute to disease causation and severity, and provide both biomarkers and targets for prevention and treatment of serious diseases from cardiovascular syndromes to diabetes, inflammatory disease and cancer, and from early abnormalities in the fetal circulation to diseases of ageing. 

A series of delegates posts are now appearing from the MicroCirc2012 conference, from a wide range of specialists, from molecular biologists to imagers, and from 1st year PhD students to senior academics. 

See more about the microcirculation and the 2012 Conference in reflections of principal organizer Professor Chris Garland, posts from delegates and in video interviews with Professor Giovanni Mann from King's College London, and Professor Steven Segal from Columbus, Missouri, USA.