Dear Members of the Working Group on Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation,
We hope you have had a productive 2019 and wish you a fantastic holiday season!
The call for our Working Groups’s Mobility Travel Grant has been very successful. As many as ten young talented scientists have applied this year, with many proposals of very high quality giving the jury a difficult time to decide the winner. After careful deliberation the winner is Anna Vavlukis from North Macedonia, who will visit the Cardiovascular-Program ICCC (IR-HSCSP) in Barcelona. Congratulations! We hereby invite young cardiovascular scientists to apply for the Mobility Travel Grant next year.
We would also like to take the opportunity to remind you of the Frontiers in CardioVascular Biomedicine congress, ESC’s largest biennial basic and translational cardiovascular science event, to be held in Budapest starting Thursday 23 April through Sunday 26 April in 2020. Members of our working group are contributing to several sessions and we encourage all working group members to attend! Please register and book your hotel and trip well in advance!
This year we have submitted several proposals for scientific symposia during the annual ESC Congress, which will be held in Amsterdam from 29 August through 2 September next year. Moreover, our Working Group contributed to joint scientific sessions at the Macedonian Congress of Cardiology 3-6 October and at the 6th Cardiology Highlights in Dubrovnik 17-21 October. Please continue to send us your ideas for symposia, including a one-page bio-sketch of yourself together with a provisional title of a presentation you would be prepared to give in one of our symposia.
We regularly list recently published scientific articles of interest to our working group as ‘Recommended Reading’ on our webpage. This time we have added two papers related to sex differences in acute and chronic coronary artery disease and a paper on microcirculation as target in cardioprotection; please check these interesting articles out on our webpage! We hereby would like to invite you to send us one of your recent papers for consideration of being listed on our webpage as ‘Recommended Reading’.
Finally, do not hesitate to contact any of the members of the Working Group Nucleus if you would like to get further information on our working group or to express your ideas!
Best wishes on behalf of the Working Group Nucleus,
Dirk J. Duncker (Chairperson) and Teresa Padro (Secretary)
Our mission: To reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.