XV International Symposium on Atherosclerosis 2009

Young Investigator Award Winners

We would like to congratulate the following Young Investigator Award Winners of the XV International Symposium on Atherosclerosis

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YIA WINNERS: MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2009

1. D Armour – workshop session: II-8 Basic Science and Vascular Biology: Models of Atherosclerosis
   Title: ACCELERATED ATHEROSCLEROSIS WITH 11b-HSD2-DEFICIENCY IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED INFLAMMATION IN EARLY STAGES OF PLAQUE DEVELOPMENT (Publ. no. 149)
   Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
2. N Gerdes – workshop session: II-8 Basic Science and Vascular Biology: Models of Atherosclerosis
   Title: SELECTIVE DEPLETION OF Foxp3+ REGULATORY T CELLS EXACERBATES EXPERIMENTAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN MICE (Publ. no. 150)
   Department of Medicine, CMM, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
3. GK Hovingh – workshop session: II-4 Genetics: Genetics of High Density Lipoproteins
   Title: GENOMIC SELECTION BY HYBRIDIZATION-ENRICHMENT FOR LARGE SCALE SEQUENCING OF GENES IMPLICATED IN HDL METABOLISM (Publ. no. 121)
   Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
4. K. Koskinas – Poster no. 135
   Title: IDENTIFICATION OF EXTREMELY HIGH-RISK PLAQUES ON THE BASIS OF LOW ENDOTHELIAL SHEAR STRESS: IMPLICATIONS FOR RISK STRATIFICATION (Publ. no. 285)
   Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
5. C Lundegaard – workshop session: II-4 Genetics: Genetics of High Density Lipoproteins
   Title: MUTATION IN APOAI PREDICTS INCREASED RISK OF ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE AND EARLY DEATH WITHOUT LOW HDL CHOLESTEROL (Publ. no. 119)
   Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
6. A. Parzonko – Poster no. 327
   SILYMARIN (FLAVONOLIGNANS COMPLEX FROM MILK THISTLE) PROTECTS ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELLS AGAINST SENESCENCE INDUCED BY RAPAMYCIN (Publ. no. P477)
   Department of Pharmacognosy and Molecular Basis of Phytotherapy, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
7. A Polykratis – Poster no. 37
   ENDOTHELIAL NF-?B INHIBITION PROTECTS MICE FROM ATHEROSCLEROSIS (Publ. no.P187)
   Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
8. Y Terao – Poster no. 290
   GLIMEPIRIDE ENHANCES APOA-I- AND HDL-MEDIATED CHOLESTEROL EFFLUX FROM THP-1 MACROPHAGES BY INCREASING ABCA1, ABCG1, AND SR-BI EXPRESSIONS (Publ. P440)
   Department of Internal Medicine I, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Tokyo, Japan
9. K Vickers – Poster no. 102
   LYSO-PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE INDUCES OSTEOGENIC GENE EXPRESSION AND PHENOTYPE IN VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS (Publ. no. P252)
   Lipoprotein Metabolism Section, PVMB, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
10. Y Yang – Poster no. 295
    CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ISOFLAVONE PRATENSEIN AS A NOVEL TRANSCRIPTIONAL UP-REGULATOR OF SCAVERGER RECEPTOR BI IN HepG2 CELLS (Publ. no. P445)
    Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

YIA WINNERS: TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2009

1. M Biedzka-Sarek – Poster no. 120
   Title: ROLE OF HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS (HDL) IN HOST DEFENSE AGAINST BACTERIAL PATHOGENS (Publ. no. P637)
   Dept of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
2. T. Fukumoto – Poster no. 277
   Title: SELECTIVE NEW ROBUST AUTOMATED BORDER DETECTION (ABDP) METHOD FOR CAPTURING C-IMT: SCREENING FOR ATHEROSCLEROSIS (Publ. P902)
   Corp. R&D, Panasonic Shikoku Electronics Co., Ltd., Yokohama, Japan
3. T Guzik – Poster no. 117
   Title: RISK FACTORS FOR ATHEROSCLEROSIS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH PHENOTYPIC CHANGES OF PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONOCYTES (Publ. no. 742)
   Department of Medicine, Jagiellonian University School of Medicine, Cracow, Poland
4. L Jukulj – IV-2 Pharmacology and Novel Therapies: Inhibition of Cholesterol Synthesis and/or Cholesterol Absorption
   Title: BASELINE CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS MARKERS DO NOT PREDICT SIMVASTATIN-INDUCED LDL-CHOLESTEROL REDUCTION OR CHANGE IN CAROTID INTIMA MEDIA THICKNESS IN SUBJECTS WITH FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; A POST-HOC ANALYSIS OF THE ENHANCE TRIAL (Publ. 580)
   Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
5. P-P Laurila – Workshop: III-4 Genetics: Genetics of LDL
   Title: KNOCK-OUT MODELS IN MICE AND MEN SUGGEST A PROATHEROGENIC ROLE FOR USF1 (Publ. 529)
   National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
6. T Mayi – Poster no. 99
   Title: MACROPHAGES OF ADIPOSE TISSUE: POTENTIAL NEW TARGETS FOR NUCLEAR RECEPTOR LXR AGONISTS? (Publ.no. P724)
   Inserm U545 Institut Pasteur de Lille, France
7. A Selathurai – Poster no. 65
   Title: PRO-ATHEROGENIC EFFECTS OF NATURAL KILLER CELLS ARE DEPENDENT ON ACTIVATION BY NATURAL KILLER T CELLS (Publ. no. P690)
   Vascular Biology and Atherosclerosis, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
8. D van Schalwijk – Poster no. 309
   DEVELOPING A MATHEMATICAL MODEL TO DETERMINE THE RATES OF LIPOPROTEIN METABOLIC PROCESSES FROM A SINGLE PLASMA SAMPLE (Publ. no. P934)
   BU Biosciences, TNO Quality of Life, Zeist and Leiden, The Netherlands and LACDR, University of Leiden, Leiden, ZH, The Netherlands
9. M Vergeer – Poster no. 270
   GENETIC VARIANTS IN PHOSPHOLIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN (PLTP) AFFECT PLTP ACIVITY, HIGH-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN SIZE AND RISK OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE (Publ. no. P895)
   Vascular Medicine, AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

YIA WINNERS: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2009

1. A Bartelt – Workshop V-8: Basic Science and Vascular Biology: Cellular Lipid Metabolism
   APOLIPOPROTEIN E IS REQUIRED FOR ADIPOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION AND ENHANCES THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY ASSOCIATED WITH DIET-INDUCED OBESITY (Publ no 1044)
   Molecular Cell Biology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg
2. I Buers – Poster no. 275
   TIP47 IS INVOLVED IN MACROPHAGE FOAM CELL FORMATION (Publ. no. P1389)
   Leibniz Institute for Arteriosclerosis Research, Muenster, Germany
3. C Bursill – Poster no. 37
   Title: HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS (HDL) REDUCE CHEMOKINE EXPRESSION IN MONOCYTES AND ENDOTHELIAL CELLS (Publ. no P1151)
   Heart Research Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
4. B Di Bartolo – Poster no. 40
   IN VITRO PROPERTIES OF AN APOLIPOPROTEIN A-I MIMETIC PEPTIDE (Publ. no P1154)
   Heart Research Institute, Sydney, NSW, Australia
5. X Lee – Poster no. 1131
   TRANSLOCATION OF ACAT1 FROM ER TO LATE ENDOSOME ASSOCIATED MEMBRANES IN CHOLESTEROL-RICH HUMAN MACROPHAGES
   Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan
6. S Loued – Poster no. 46
   ANTI-INFLAMMATORY EFFECT OF PARAOXONASE1 (Publ. no. P1160)
   Research Centre on Aging, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
7. A Shemyakin – Poster no. 85
   ENDOTHELIN-1 INHIBITS INSULIN-STIMULATED GLUCOSE UPTAKE IN SKELETAL MUSCLE IN VIVO AND IN VITRO (Publ. no. P1191)
   Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

YIA WINNERS: THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 2009

1. E Ammirati – Workshop Session: VII-8 Basic Science and Vascular Biology: Inflammation and Atherosclerosis
   Title: CYTOKINE DIFFERENTIATION PATTERN IN PATIENTS WITH ST-ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (STEMI) ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH LEVELS OF CIRCULATING INTELEUKIN (IL)-6 (Publ. no. 1512)
   San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
2. F Tabet – Workshop Session: VI-6 Speciality Topics in Vascular Biology
   Title: THE 5A apoA-I MIMETIC PEPTIDE DISPLAYS ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AND ANTIOXIDANT PROPERTIES MEDIATED BY ABCA1 (Publ. no. 1458)
   HRI, Sydney, Australia
3. Y-C Lee – Workship Session: VII-4 Genetics: Gene-Environment-Drug Interactions
   Title: POLYMORPHISMS AT BCL7B-TBL2-MLXIPL LOCUS INTERACT WITH DIETARY UNSATURATED FA TO MODULATE BMI AND LIPIDS
   Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, JM-USDA-HNRCA at Tufts University, Boston, MA