UCSF to Host Science Symposium Highlighting Cardiovascular Research
UCSF is hosting a special science symposium that will highlight 50 years of cardiovascular research and the direction it will take in the future.
Titled "Cardiovascular Research: Celebrating the Past and Charting the Future," the symposium will include scientists at the forefront of research in genetic risk profiling, organ and vascular development, and cardiovascular implications of neonatal care. The event will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, May 7, in the William J. Rutter Center, 1675 Owens St., San Francisco. Pre-registration is encouraged at http://cvri.ucsf.edu.
The symposium celebrates the 50th anniversary of the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI). It will be followed by groundbreaking ceremonies on the UCSF Mission Bay campus for a new CVRI building that will feature space for both leading-edge research and clinical care. Building at Mission Bay CVRI's new five-story, 236,000-square-foot building at UCSF Mission Bay will provide state-of-the-art laboratories for current scientists and allow for the recruitment of 25 additional investigators -- the largest proportional increase in faculty recruitment since the foundation of the CVRI in 1957. In addition to laboratories for research, it will house an outpatient clinic for patients with cardiovascular disease. The building is expected to be ready for occupancy in 2011.
The CVRI building's location on UCSF's burgeoning Mission Bay campus will provide ready access to outstanding laboratories, advanced genomic and proteomic technologies, whole body imaging, and other leading-edge facilities already in place.
More than a year of intense collaboration among teams of principal investigators, staff and architects SmithGroup with Jim Jennings has produced a highly sophisticated internal design that is specifically intended to promote interaction among researchers and maximize flexibility to assemble new programs and adopt new technologies.
For 50 years, scientists at the UCSF CVRI have worked together across disciplines to attack cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States. Their partnerships have led to major advances in understanding the disease and in medical care, aiding everyone from infants with respiratory problems to adults with arrhythmia (alterations in heart rhythms).
"Yet cardiovascular disease still kills nearly 1 million people in the United States each year and is on the rise globally as populations age and societies change," says Shaun R. Coughlin, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF CVRI. "Now is the time to escalate our efforts, as we have an unprecedented opportunity to move forward."
Symposium Speakers
Coughlin will moderate the symposium on May 7. Topics and speakers are:
Titled "Cardiovascular Research: Celebrating the Past and Charting the Future," the symposium will include scientists at the forefront of research in genetic risk profiling, organ and vascular development, and cardiovascular implications of neonatal care. The event will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, May 7, in the William J. Rutter Center, 1675 Owens St., San Francisco. Pre-registration is encouraged at http://cvri.ucsf.edu.
The symposium celebrates the 50th anniversary of the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI). It will be followed by groundbreaking ceremonies on the UCSF Mission Bay campus for a new CVRI building that will feature space for both leading-edge research and clinical care. Building at Mission Bay CVRI's new five-story, 236,000-square-foot building at UCSF Mission Bay will provide state-of-the-art laboratories for current scientists and allow for the recruitment of 25 additional investigators -- the largest proportional increase in faculty recruitment since the foundation of the CVRI in 1957. In addition to laboratories for research, it will house an outpatient clinic for patients with cardiovascular disease. The building is expected to be ready for occupancy in 2011.
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The new five-story, 236,000-square-foot building for cardiovascular research at UCSF Mission Bay will provide state-of-the-art laboratories for current scientists and allow for the recruitment of 25 additional investigators. (See larger) |
- • Genes for Cardiovascular Risk: From Rare Outliers to the General Population - Richard P. Lifton, MD, PhD, chair, Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine.
- • Going to the Extremes to Identify Genetic Variations Conferring Cardiovascular Risk - Helen H. Hobbs, MD, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UT Southwestern Medical Center.
- • A Transcriptional Code for Vascular Development - Brian L. Black, PhD, CVRI associate director and professor in biochemistry and biophysics, UCSF.
- • The Molecular Basis of Cell Polarity and Motility - Orion D. Weiner, PhD, assistant professor, biochemistry and biophysics, UCSF.
- • CVRI: The Early Years and Beyond - Richard J. Havel, MD, professor of medicine emeritus and former director of CVRI, UCSF.
- • Babies, Bubbles and Biology: 30 Years of Translational Research - John A. Clements, MD, Julius H. Comroe, Jr. M.D., Chair in Pulmonary Biology Emeritus, UCSF.
- • Gene Networks that Control Heart Development and Disease - Eric N. Olson, PhD, Annie and Willie Nelson Professor in Stem Cell Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
- • PPARs: Running Around Obesity - Ronald M. Evans, PhD, professor, Salk Institute, and investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.