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| Prof. S.Gielen and V.Adams, with the awardees |
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Young Investigators Award and moderated poster awards competition!
This year, the Jury members and the Congress Programme Committee are pleased to honor:
Young Investigator Award - Clinical Science:
Chairpersons: E Prescott (Copenhagen, DK), B Rauch (Freiburg Breisgau, DE), S Gielen (Leipzig, DE), DR Labarthe (Atlanta, US), J Myers (Palo Alto, US), D E Grobbee (Utrecht, NL)
Winner: Short and long sleep duration in relation to 10-year cardiovascular disease incidence: The MORGEN Study, M.P. Hoevenaar-Blom (NL)
Young Investigator Award - Basic and Translational Science:
Chairpersons: U Landmesser (Zurich, CH), JPJ Halcox (Cardiff, GB), R Hambrecht (Bremen, DE), L E M Vanhees (Leuven, BE), V Adams (Leipzig, DE), V Conraads (Edegem, BE)
Winner: Exercise NO-independently upregulates AT-2 receptor expression in-vivo, V.T. Dao (DE)
Chairpersons: U Landmesser (Zurich, CH), JPJ Halcox (Cardiff, GB), R Hambrecht (Bremen, DE), L E M Vanhees (Leuven, BE), V Adams (Leipzig, DE), V Conraads (Edegem, BE) , V.T. Dao (DE)
Moderated Poster Awards
The best moderated posters were selected onsite during the Moderated poster sessions. Each presenter have received a certificate in recognition of their outstanding scientific work.
Rehabilitation and Implementation:
Chairperson(s) : J Perk (Kalmar, SE), P Marques-Vidal (Lausanne, CH)
Winner: Rehabilitation of patients with severe heart failure and pulmonary hypertension, A Kolesnikova (RU)
Sports Cardiology:
Chairperson(s) : M Wilhelm (Bern, CH), S Mazic (Belgrade, RS)
Winner: Athlete's heart and ethnicity : comparisons between Japanese, African-Caribbean and Caucasian professional soccer players, F. Carre (FR)
Prevention and Epidemiology:
Chairperson(s) : T Takken (Alphen Aan Den Rijn, NL), D T Zdrenghea (Cluj-Napoca, RO)
Winner: Disturbed adiponectin AMPK system in skeletal muscle of metabolic syndrome patients, A.M. Van Berendoncks (BE)
Basic and Translational Science:
Chairperson(s) : JPJ Halcox (Cardiff, GB), P Leeson (Oxford, GB)
Winner: Leukocyte-endothelial interaction is altered in coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes: role of kinin signalling, N. Kraenkel (CH)