Authors: Ramaswamy Kannappan, Jianyi Zhang
Summary:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2016 Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium (PCBC) and Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering (CVTE) Symposium was held on March 28, 2016 at Birmingham, AL (Figure). Over one hundred scientists, engineers, and trainees attended the symposium hosted by new joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The symposium was part of the NIH National Blood, Heart, and Lung Institute’s PCBC and featured information on the field’s latest accomplishments. The goal of the Symposium was to discuss novel approaches and cell and tissue engineering–based products to repair damaged heart and vasculature. The symposium sessions were aimed at the common topic of advancing the understanding of disease mechanisms and translating the most advanced basic science to preclinical and clinical trials. Because of the word limitation, this report could only highlight some of the presentations from this 1-day PCBC CVTE 2016 Symposiums. Many pertinent presentation summaries are not included, yet they certainly merit.
Source:
Circulation Research; 2016, 119 (9): 981