Dear Members of the ESC Working Group on Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology,
We hope our June newsletter reaches you and your families well and safe. This month, we are delighted to present you with a Newsletter particularly rich of events and suggestions, which we think will inspire and promote your current and novel research work as well as foster future ESC and our WG educational activities.
We are pleased to announce that the online Symposium entitled: “Does atherosclerosis have a sex & gender? Perspectives from basic science to clinical practice”, took place successfully on Wednesday April 28, 2021 from 17:00 to 18:30 CEST in the frame of the Council of Basic Cardiovascular Science (CBCS) Spring Program. We are grateful to the CBCS for this great opportunity. We gathered world renowned experts from the USA and Europe in the field of atherosclerosis to discuss differences between sexes and genders from the perspectives of fundamental and translational research. We had almost two hundred registrations and hundreds of members are currently taking advantage of the possibility to watch the recording of this outstanding event.
We are truly committed to keeping our Members up to date on the latest developments in cardiovascular disease and we are honored that Prof. Peter Libby from the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA has kindly accepted our invitation to feature the Paper of the Month in this issue of the Newsletter. Prof Libby comments for our Readers his latest key Review published in Nature on “The changing landscape of atherosclerosis”. This is a must-read if you wish to learn more about the latest achievements and future developments in the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis.
We would also like to congratulate warmly Authors of the three recommended readings selected for our Members on their innovative and highest-quality findings. We invite our Members to get in contact with us and highlight outstanding articles of their own or collaborating groups, which may be of benefit for our readership.
On behalf of the Nucleus Members of the Working Group on Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology, we hope you will enjoy these articles and wish you all the best in staying healthy and safe!!
Elena Osto, Secretary
Marie-Luce Bochaton-Piallat, Chair
Our mission: To reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.