BMS at IUPS 2013 post meeting blog

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)

President-elect Prof. Nicola Brown, seen manning the BMS stall

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