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June 2024 |
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2024 Sabin Award - Manu Platt |
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Manu Platt to Receive 2024 Florence R. Sabin Award NAVBO is pleased to name Manu Platt, Ph.D., as the 2024 recipient of the Florence R. Sabin Award. The Sabin Award recognizes a unique individual who embodies the spirit of Dr. Florence Sabin (1871-1953), who broke scientific and social barriers with her research and community engagement. Dr. Platt currently serves as Director of the NIH-wide Center for Biomedical Engineering Technology Acceleration (BETA Center), housed within the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Prior to joining the BETA Center in 2023, Dr. Platt was Professor of Biomedical Engineering at |
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Georgia Tech and Emory University. An impactful researcher in the study of proteases in vascular disorders including Sickle Cell Disease, Dr. Platt also is an international leader in the diversity and inclusion movement in STEM fields, having founded or led several programs that engage participants from groups underrepresented in biomedical research. Please join us at VB2024 this October to honor Dr. Platt as NAVBO’s 2024 Florence R. Sabin Award recipient.
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2024 Schwartz Award - Mark Ginsberg |
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Mark Ginsberg Recognized with 2024 Stephen Schwartz Award for Outstanding Mentorship NAVBO is pleased to name Mark Ginsberg, M.D., as the 2024 recipient of the Stephen Schwartz Award, named in honor of NAVBO co-founder and champion of conscientious mentorship. Dr. Ginsberg, a leading investigator of cell adhesion mechanisms, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego. He served as President of NAVBO in 2007-08 and received the organization’s Earl P. Benditt Award in 2003. Throughout his career, Dr. Ginsberg has prioritized the |
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training of the next generation of scientists, as evidenced by his having mentored >50 post-doctoral fellows with Ph.D. and/or M.D. degrees that are still active in research. He has spent decades leading Physician Scientist Training and T32 post-doc programs at UCSD and Scripps. Please join us at Asilomar this October to honor 2024 Schwartz Award recipient, Dr. Mark Ginsberg.
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Vasculata 2024 - Register soon! |
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Vasculata 2024 - July 22-25, 2024 at Stanford University |
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There is still space available at Stanford for Vasculata 2024!! Vasculata is NAVBO's summer course that provides a thorough overview of the field of vascular biology. The theme of Vasculata 2024, Novel Insights in Vascular Biology - from Bench to Bedside, will showcase cutting-edge techniques and link these new approaches to organ specific vascular diseases thereby exhibiting how basic and translational knowledge can lead to the development of new therapies. See the program for details. Anyone interested in learning about or expanding their knowledge of vascular biology should attend. Encourage your students and postdocs to attend - registration fees are particularly low for trainees - undergraduates can attend for as low as $100 and graduate students and postdocs can register for $295 - NAVBO Trainee and AYVDI* members pay only $215. If your trainees are not NAVBO members, please recommend that they join (here is a link to the application).
Click on the Website button below for more information apply.
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IVBM Travel Award Recipients |
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Congratulations to our 2024 IVBM Travel Award Recipients! |
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Ibrahim Alzaim, Aarhus University Aleksandra Cwiek, University of Virginia Giulia De Rossi, University College London Hisham Ibrahim, University Health Network/University of Toronto Mascha Koenen, Rockefeller University Apeksha Shapeti, KU Leuven Their presentation information is available on our web site - |
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NAVBO Council Election Results |
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Congratulations!
Dr. Wayne Orr, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, is our new President Elect.
Also, joining the NAVBO Council on July 1 is Sophie Astrof, Rutgers University, and Yun Fang, University of Chicago.
Be sure to read next month's Newsletter where we will provide brief bios of our new councilors.
Thank you to the NAVBO members that voted and a special thank you to the NAVBO members who ran for office - we appreciate your service! |
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Lessons Learned |
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Cristina Espinosa-Diez, Ph.D. My name is Cristina Espinosa-Diez, and I am an Assistant Professor at the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics and the Department of Physiology at Wayne State University. I earned my PhD from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain. Following that, I moved to the US, where I completed my first postdoctoral fellowship at Oregon Health & Science University and my second at the University of Pittsburgh. In October 2023, I began my independent faculty position.
I am immensely grateful to the NAVBO Education Committee for the opportunity to share my thoughts and lessons learned during these initial months. My journey as a |
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principal investigator has deepened my understanding and increased my admiration for my mentors. I have always respected Dr. Delphine Gomez, Dr. Sudarshan Anand, and Dr. Santiago Lamas, but this experience has elevated my appreciation for their guidance and contributions to my professional growth. I want to dedicate these lessons learned to them.
It is lonely, but you are not alone: One of the most unexpected things nobody warned me about was how lonely I felt during my first days on the job. Coming from a lively lab where we were always chatting and helping each other to an empty office and lab space was quite dramatic, and I was unprepared for it. I felt really sad. Being very social, suddenly finding myself alone without knowing exactly what I had to do felt strange. I felt ashamed for the first few weeks and didn’t talk to anyone about it except my partner. I didn’t want to admit that I didn’t like the job I had worked so hard to get and was so excited to start. One of my best friends, Judit, had started her lab just a month before me. After a couple of weeks, she reached out to me, and we scheduled a Zoom call. We started chatting, and I realized we were both going through the same issues. We shared anecdotes, tips, and ideas and felt better afterward. After that, I felt more confident about contacting colleagues and sharing my experiences. Following Vascular Biology 2023 in Newport, some new PIs and I created an Early Career PI group chat that has been growing since. We reach out to each other with questions and support and to celebrate accomplishments! Since then, I have scheduled calls with friends, mentors, and colleagues on the same path, sometimes to ask for advice and others to vent. At my new institution, I have also been building a mentor and support network. Now, I have senior colleagues and fellow new PIs with whom I can reach out for scientific and career advice or go for lunch or coffee to decompress. So, although being in the office can still feel lonely at times, I do not feel alone anymore. Thank you, friends, for being there! |
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Super Early Bird Discount Ends June 30 |
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Join us for Vascular Biology 2024!! October 20-24, 2024 at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Monterey |
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Register before the end of this month to save the most on your registration to VB2024. NAVBO members save $110 in addition to the $140 member discount. NAVBO trainee members save an additional $95 -altogether a $300 savings over the non-member rate.
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Vascular Biology 2024 will be cover the themes of Development and Genetics, Inflammation, Marix Biology and Bioengineering, Signaling and Microcirculation, with an additional general session on Vascular Malformations, co-sponsored by the Sturge-Weber Foundation, and a session on HHT sponsored by Cure HHT. The Microcirculatory Society is once again joining us and sponsoring several sessions including, Microvascular Changes During Pregnancy, which is the MCS President's symposium organized by Pooneh Bagher.
We are super excited to welcome Dr. William Sessa, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Pfizer Inc., as our Keynote Speaker. His lecture is entitled, Endothelium at the interface of lipid metabolism and vascular function. We will then end the meeting with more on Metabolism, a session featuring Drs. Joseph Loscalzo, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Dionna Kasper, Dartmouth College; Yajaira Suarez, Yale School of Medicine; and Kristen Zuloaga, Albany Medical College. Plan to stay through the end - Thursday, October 24 at 1:00pm.
In addition to our outstanding scientific sessions, we are sponsoring the Pre-conference Meeting for Trainees, two workshops on DEI, and two career development sessions. We'll have Nano-Talks, three nights of Poster Sessions with poster discussions lead by postdocs, and we're bring back our Networking 101 session for those new to the meeting and/or NAVBO.
Registration is open and we are accepting abstracts. Travel Awards are available for NAVBO and MCS trainee members, more information is available on our web site.
Super Early Bird Deadline - June 30, 2024 Abstracts due August 1
The full program is on our web site - https://navbo.org/vb2024 |
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Special Thanks to Vascular Biology 2024 Supporters |
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Lab of the Month |
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Month - June 2024 The Lab of Dr. Cristina Espinosa-Diez This month we are highlighting the lab of Dr. Cristina Espinosa-Diez, Assistant Professor at Wayne State University. Find out more about her lab by visiting her page in our Lab of the Month listing. |
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HHT Awareness Month |
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Join A Growing Online Community of Scientists This National June HHT Awareness Month |
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June is National HHT (Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia) Awareness Month – an important time period for a disease that remains widely overlooked and understudied compared to disorders of similar prevalence.
Their ask this June Awareness Month is to join the Cure HHT Research Network Hub – a growing online community of clinicians, scientists, and trainees. The Hub offers a |
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space to collaborate, share ideas, and network with other scientists from around the globe, all while receiving timely updates on news, publications, resources and more.
About HHT: Also known as Osler-Weber-Rendu, HHT is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder characterized by vascular malformations in multiple organs. Approximately 1 in 5,000 people are affected by HHT, totaling 1.4 million worldwide. Patients can experience severe bleeding and anemia. Other complications include ischemic stroke, cerebral and pulmonary hemorrhage, pulmonary hypertension, and high-output cardiac failure, leading to significant morbidity and mortality. |
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Spotlight on Trainees |
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Workshop on NSF’s New Mentoring Requirements This month, the Council of Graduate Schools is offering a 90-minute virtual workshop on new graduate student mentoring requirements for grants submitted to the National Science Foundation on or after May 22, 2024. Facilitators with distinguished records as researchers and mentors will provide strategies and examples for improving both mentoring and research outcomes. The workshop is the second in a series designed to prepare institutions and researchers for the new requirement. Participants are invited to view a recording of the first webinar, held in April, where NSF leadership and graduate administrators discussed the new requirements as well as university communications to faculty researchers about the change. The upcoming webinar, tailored specifically to faculty and other researchers on NSF grants, will provide more detailed information about the requirement and resources for mentoring graduate students. The workshop, scheduled for 2:00-3:30 ET on June 18, 2024, is free of charge. |
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Member News |
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Welcome to our New Members: Srimmitha Balachandar, Indiana University School of Medicine Hanane Belhoul-Fakir, Harry Perkins Medical Research Institute Warlley Cunha, Wayne State University Desirae Escalera, Loma Linda University Naman Ghumman, San Jose State University Nataliia Hula, Loma Linda University Dan Jane-wit, Yale University School of Medicine Eunhee Kim, UT Health Science Center at Houston Emily Luc, Washington University School of Medicine Ankita Mitra, Stanford University Colin Niaudet, INSERM Cecellia Nguyen, San Jose State University Linh Thi Khanh Nguyen, San Jose State University Ayodeji Oteyola, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Eunsu Park, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Talisa Pham, San Jose State University Nandhini Sadagopan, Yale University Kevin Shores, Duke University Jiyeon Song, Duke University Peeyush Kumar Thankamani Pandit, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Kobe Tray, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center William Wang, United Therapeutics Xiaofeng Yang, Temple University Hanrui Zhang, Columbia University Xuetao Zhang, University of California, San Francisco |
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Recent Member Publications |
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Identification of New Markers of Angiogenic Sprouting Using Transcriptomics: New Role for RND3 Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology New blood vessel formation requires endothelial cells to transition from a quiescent to an invasive phenotype. Transcriptional changes are vital for this switch, but a comprehensive genome-wide approach focused exclusively on endothelial cell sprout initiation has not been reported. Read More
If you recently published a paper and would like to have it included in a future issue of the NAVBO NewsBEAT and/or on our web site. Please send the citation to membership@navbo.org |
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Industry News |
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NASEM workshop on countering misinformation Students, researchers, organizations, and companies are developing innovative ways to Approaches to managing disinformation encountered on social media were explored in a National Academies workshop in April 2024. Workshop planners had gathered ideas from solicited from specialists in academia, industry, journalism, civil society, policy, and government; from these, 14 were selected for dissection and discussion at the workshop. Under discussion were new ways to counter disinformation through content moderation by trained citizen-scientist volunteers; each annotation is the product of independent reviews by at least three individuals following stepwise protocols monitored for bias.
The America Association of Medical Colleges announces a new suite of CORE Leadership Development programs that address pressing challenges encountered across the leadership spectrum at member institutions. The first program, Leading for Impact, is tailored to individuals leading a department, unit, or trans-institutional mission and looking to drive positive change. The three-day program will include skill enrichment, action-planning, practical application, and facilitated peer collaboration sessions. The standard program is $2,950. However, the pilot, scheduled for June 25-27 in Washington, DC, is being offered at a reduced rate of $1,500. Learn more and register.
Loneliness, often experienced as distress in response to the gap between desired and actual social relationships or lack thereof, is frequently cited as a growing public concern. Research suggests that loneliness is associated with negative mental and physical health outcomes across the lifespan. An NIH-organized lecture and conversation zoom workshop scheduled for May 22, 2024, 4:00–5:15 p.m. EDT will explore risk factors including those that may be unique to the culture of the biomedical research community and ways to reduce loneliness at both the individual and community level.” |
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NAVBO Corporate Partners |
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NAVBO Corporate Members |
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Summer Programs |
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PRIDE CVD-CGE June 21-27, 2024 (Virtual 10am - 3pm CT)
“PRIDE mentorship provided the foundation to build my work, allowed me to think outside the box, and provided an opportunity to build lasting collaborations with PRIDE cohorts and mentors, and to jointly publish and write grants. PRIDE provides an amazingly enriching experience and I strongly recommend it.” – PRIDE Mentee, 2008 |
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This NHLBI-funded “Programs for Inclusion and Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research” support junior faculty underrepresented in biomedical research.
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri MPI’s: Victor Davila-Roman, MD, Lisa de las Fuentes, MD, MS and DC Rao, PhD Program Administrator: Linda Schreier, BS (schreierl@wustl.edu)
Space is limited for the mentored program starting summer 2024. Apply early! |
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Calls for Papers/Proposals |
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Calendar of Events |
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Job Postings |
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North American Vascular Biology Organization |