Young Investigator Awards

We are pleased to honour a certain number of individuals during the Frontiers in CardioVascular Biomedicine (FCVB) congresses, in recognition of their outstanding achievements.

Sessions are dedicated to young investigators who submit their research under the Young Investigator option (40 years old or under). The sessions are chaired by senior faculty members and a panel of renowned experts in specific fields who evaluate the presentations. Awards results are presented during the Awards ceremony at the end of the congress.

Congratulations to all our award winners!

2018 Young Investigators Awards Winners 

Aleksandra Piechota-Polanczyk, Poland

Inhibition of Nrf2 transcriptional activity favors abdominal aortic aneurysm formation in mice

Luca Braga, Italy

Administration of miR-665 modulates cardiomiocyte mechanotransduction and prevents pathological cardiac remodelling after pressure overload

Acknowledgments to 2018 Young Investigators Awards Runner Ups

Reginald Van Der Kwast, Netherlands

A-to-I editing of microRNA-487b alters target gene selection and promotes neovascularization after ischemia

Soumaya BenAicha Gonzalez, Spain

Hypercholesterolemia changes HDL-miRNA signature and enhances HDL-miR126-3p and -5p delivery to endothelial cells modulating genes involved in vascular health

Wajihah Mughal, Canada

Myocardin regulates mitochondrial calcium homeostasis and prevents permeability transition in cardiac myocytes.

Elena Guzzolino, Italy

 Stable and transient miR-182 overexpression reproduces morphological and physiological cardiac defects caused by Tbx5 depletion in zebrafish

Acknowledgments to the Best Posters Awards Winners 

Marta Vigil-Garcia

Gene expression profiling of hypertrophic and failing cardiomyocytes to identify new players in pathological remodeling

Sophie Saxton

Reversing adrenoceptor dysfunction in obese perivascular adipose tissue using exercise 

Hanna Bjorck

DNA methylation in bicuspid aortic valve aortopathy: potential contribution of oscillatory flow to an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition signature

Georg Daniel Duerr

Deleterious effects of FAAH-deficiency on development of ischemic cardiomyopathy in mice

Mateusz Jez

Lack of heme oxygenase-1 affects electrophysiological properties of cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells

Sarka Jelinkova

Duchenne muscular dystrophy leads to compromised genomic stability in stem cells and depletion of cardiac progenitors in failing heart

Maarten Brandt

Fzd5 signalling controls vascular growth by repressing Ets1-mediated transcription of Angpt2 and Flt1

Victor Leonardo Velecela Chuquilla

A genome-wide transcriptomics approach reveals a novel Wt1/Slit/Robo pathway that is involved in the in the migratory process of epicardial cells during development

Conrado J Calvo

Modifications of short-term heart rate varibility and intrinsic pacemaker variability in an experimental model of metabolic syndrome

Christina Warboys

Inhibition of a non-canonical Wnt/Fzd/beta-catenin signalling pathway alters inflammatory activation in endothelial cells exposed to disturbed flow

Klaus Neef

Assessment of cardioprotective properties of FSTL1 in vitro using human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes

Alina Klems

Arterial Flt1 regulates de novo arteriologenesis and arteriolar caliber involving novel endothelial remodelling events.

Gentian Musa

The endocardial expression of ADGRG6 (Gpr126) is necessary for survival in mouse and sufficient to drive trabeculation in zebrafish

Sebastiaan Johannes van Kampen

Transient and local modulation of cardiomyocyte cell function by intracellular protein delivery in vivo

Disheet Shah

Modeling DCM due to Lamin A/C gene mutation using hiPSC-CM