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International Cardioavascular Development, Anatomy and regeneration meeting – Prague 2024

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Registration is open for our annual European Cardiovascular Development and Regerneation meeting. After the wonderful sucess of our Paris 23 meeting, we now go to Prague and are hosted by Professor David Sedmera. Some of you will remember when we were in Prague some years ago – that was a pretty fantastic event!

This year we are having a meeting sponsored and endorsed by the European Society of Cardiology, but organised by Charles University. This has simplified the organisation and also kept the cost down.

Meeting website: https://icdar.lf1.cuni.cz/index.html

Can I suggest you register for the meeting as soon as possible. There are limited places at the Hands-on anatomy session and we also have a last night gala dinner.

The Key Note speakers will be Professor Richard Harvey from Australia and Maurice van den Hoff from Amsterdam.

We will have our usual format of sessions – dictated by the abstracts we recieve from the delegates (so send them in). As expected we will keep the quese for coffee short and the poster sessions (with beer) long. There will be an important AGM – we have lots of news to tell you

Any questions – just email me – bill.chaudhry@ncl.ac.uk and I can sort you our or direct you to the right place.

There are loads of hotesl to choose from – David has a couple of selections on the website (I’ll be at the Novotel Praha Wenceslas Square

See you at the Weinstein or see you in Prague or see you at both!

Mitral valve development

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From Bill Chaudhry and Deb Henderrson

Mr Francis Wells, the internationally recognised cardiac surgeon from Papworth Hospital Cambridge, and our longstanding colleague Professor Bob Anderson, are in the late stages of producing a book for Springer Nature Publishers about the degenerating mitral valve. The work is aimed at clinicians and provides a broad discussion of the mitral valve from a scientific perspective. It is especially timely as the  developmental basis of many degenerative conditions, for example mitral valve prolapse, are increasingly recognised. We are honoured to be involved and have written a chapter explaining the developmental molecular genetics that control mitral valve development. Our chapter is specifically written for the clinician, outlining important aspects, but not burdening with scientific jargon. It is of relevance to topics of our research including hypoplastic left heart syndrome, atrioventricular septal defects and bicuspid aortic valve. Developmental anatomy and surgical aspects are provided by Bob and Francis in other chapters, and a host of international experts are adding their expertise in clinical genetics and physiology. We will post publication details in due course.

Hello, Hello – Its Good to be Back!

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from Newcastle University Congenital Heart Disease Group

The Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University was completely reorganised in 2019. We reduced our number of institutes from six to three: the Biosciences, Translational and Clinical Research and Population Health Sciences Institutes.

As part of this restructuring the old research centres, including the Cardiovascular Research Centre, were dissolved. In their place are Themes that cut across all three Institutes and are focussed on the future direction of academic research in our University. 

We, congenital heart researchers, have taken the opportunity to make new connections with others in the Reproduction, Development and Child Health (RDCH) Theme. We remain closely linked, but distinct from our colleagues in the Vascular Biology and Medicine (VBM) Theme and some colleagues have joint affiliation. Congenital heart clinicians in Newcastle hospitals, who are active in research, are affiliated to the Congenital Heart Disease research group and the RDCH Theme. We are also part of a wider community through the North East and North Cumbria Congenital Heart Disease Network.

On these web pages, we will post information about our research, our meetings and list contact details about our members. Enquiries about congenital heart disease research should be directed to louise.coats@ncl.ac.uk or bill.chaudhry@ncl.ac.uk and we will try to connect you with the right people.