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As of 3/15/2020, all M-BoCA lectures are postponed until Fall 2020.
Daniel A. Lawrence, PhD, from Internal Medicine - Cardiology will present "Development of an Orally Active Small Molecule Inhibitor of PAI-1 for the Treatment of Fibrotic Disease" on Tuesday, February 4th in the CVC Executive Conference Room #5162A (Cardiac Surgery Suite, 5th Floor). Lunch is provided on a first-come first-served basis. Lecture will be streamed live via BlueJeans at this link.
Nadia Sutton, MD, from Internal Medicine - Cardiology will present "Ectonucleotidases in vascular aging: spiked with experiential tips and pitfalls" on Tuesday, January 21st in the CVC #5321 (5th Floor Boardroom). Lunch is provided on a first-come first-served basis. Lecture will be streamed live via BlueJeans at this link.
Daniela Ponce-Balbuena, PhD and Research Investigator from Cardiovascular Medicine, will present "Cardiac Kir2.1 and NaV1.5 channels in sickness and in health together" at Noon on Tuesday, December 3rd in CVC #5321 (5th Floor Boardroom of the Cardiovascular Center). Lunch will be provided on a first-come first-served basis. You can also stream this lecture via BlueJeans at this link.
C. Alberto Figueroa, PhD and Edward B. Diethrich M.D. Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Vascular Surgery, will be presenting "Data-driven Computational Modeling of Hemodynamics, Central Artery Stiffness, and Hypertension" at Noon on Tuesday, November 19th in CVC #5321 (5th Floor Boardroom of the Cardiovascular Center). Lunch will be provided on a first-come first-served basis. We hope you can join! You can also stream this lecture via BlueJeans at this link.
Dr. Todd Herron, Director of the Frankel Cardiovascular Regeneration Core, will be presenting "Personalized Cardiac Disease Modeling and Medication Screening Using Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes" at Noon on Tuesday, October 1st in CVC #5321 (5th Floor Boardroom of the Cardiovascular Center). Lunch will be provided on a first-come first-served basis.
Registration for the 3rd Annual M-BoCA Symposium & Scientific Poster Session is now live! Click here to RSVP and/or submit your poster abstract submission form. RSVP deadline is 9/10 and deadline for submitting your poster abstract form is 9/2. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, September 24th from 9am-2pm!
Tony Donato, PhD from University of Utah, will be visiting the University of Michigan and presenting "Telomere uncapping induces cellular senescence and inflammation in arteries: implications for arterial aging and hypertension," on Wednesday, May 29th from 1:30p-2:30p in CVC #5321 (5th Floor Boardroom). Refreshments will be provided.
Please join us as Maria Papaleontiou, MD, from Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes, presents "Thyroid hormones & cardiovascular risk" on Tuesday, May 7th from 12p-1p in the CVC Boardroom (#5321). Lunch will be available on a first-come first-served basis.
Dr. Scott Soleimanpour, from Internal Medicine - Metabolism, Endocrinology & Diabetes, will present "New insights into mitochondrial quality control in pancreatic beta cells during aging and obesity" on Tuesday, April 2nd from Noon-1PM in CVC #5321 (5th Floor Boardroom). Lecture will be streamed live via this link.