The Centre for Cardiovascular Science progress report meetings are held every Thursday in the QMRI, Little France, at 12pm-1pm. Thursday 31st March Speaker 1: Mairead Butler: Developing methods of imaging the microvasculature using contrast enhanced ultrasound Speaker 2: Gregorio Naredo : 19F Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as tool to asses 11β-HDS1 activity in-vivo in rats Chair: Patrick Hadoke Thursday 24th March Speaker 1: Jonathan Manning: Protein sequence, structure and function: case studies from bioinformatics Speaker 2: Rita Upreti: Metabolic effects of 5 alpha reductase inhibition in humans Chair: Scott Webster Thursday 17th March Speaker 1: Nichola Brydges: Developing an animal model of delirium Speaker 2: Linda Mullins: Gene targeting in the rat Chair: Megan Holmes Thursday 10th March Speaker 1: James Catterson: Drosophila melanogaster as a model of human heart function Speaker 2: Nusrat Khan: Stem cells in Orthopaedics Chair: Megan Holmes Thursday 3rd March Speaker 1: Melissa Cudmore: The regulation of sEndoglin by vascular protective factors Speaker 2: Meng Cai: Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase and Heme Oxygenase regulate Angiogenesis via p21WAF1 in a diametrically opposed manner. Chair: Nik Morton Thursday 27th January We have one speaker followed by (an internal) CVS discussion on changes to the CPR series agreed at the recent SSC meeting. Speaker 1: Dawn Livingstone: "5alpha-Reductase 1: Tissue specific modulator of glucocorticoid action" Chair: Nik Morton followed by: Session 2 (all CVS member open discussion): Nik Morton (chair): Proposed changes to the CPR format and remit. Thursday 20th January Speaker 1. Andrew McBride: “11b-HSD1 Drug Discovery - Assessing Compound Efficacy” Speaker 2. Alison MacKinnon: “Role of galectin-3 (Mac-2) in atherosclerosis”. Chair: Nik Morton. Thursday 13th January Speaker 1: Takeshi Fujisawa: The role of Angiopoietins in the context of the atherosclerosis Speaker 2: Cristina Esteves: Transcriptional regulation of 11b-HSD1 - C/EBPb, pro-inflammatory cytokines and metabolism Chair: Ruth Andrew All welcome. Publication date 18 Jun, 2015