Dear all,
The larger-than-normal (micro)vascular presence at the recent IUPS in Birmingham was a great success. We were treated to some super science, and great opportunities for meeting with fellow microcirculationists. The BMS, as host society for the big ESM/EVBO programme, had a very visible presence (see pictures of our stall elsewhere on the web) and gained a number of new members as a result. We continued the support of young investigators, and at the reception we organised after the Malpighi Lecture - a tremendous talk given by Steve Segal - a bunch of societies co-funded lots of prizes. We raffled a very nice bottle of bubbly as part of our fund raising for the next YIS, which was appropriately enough won by a YI (no fix, honest!). At the well-attended AGM we gained a President-elect who will take over from me at the next AGM (Prof Nicola Brown, seen manning the BMS stall).
More news later.
Best wishes,
Stuart Egginton (President)
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| President-elect Prof. Nicola Brown, seen manning the BMS stall |
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| BMS Committee members (Back: Andy Salmon, Stuart Egginton. Front: Lopa Leach, Jackie Whatmore and Melissa Gammons). |
The Malpighi Award Lecture on Wednesday 24 July attracted an
audience in excess of 500 and was followed by an informal reception at which 25
'Microcirculation & Vascular Biology' Poster Awards were presented. These
awards were sponsored by the Japanese, Italian, Dutch, American and British
Microcirculation Societies, EVBO, Karger and Wiley
