Recipients of the 2024 CVMM EMCR Conference Award Announced
The 2024 CVMM EMCR Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's EMCR Conference Award 2024.
The 2024 CVMM EMCR Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's EMCR Conference Award 2024.
The CVMM EMCR Conference Award provides financial assistance to enable emerging UNSW researchers in the field of cardiovascular and metabolic health to share their research around the world.
The recipients will each receive $2,000 to assist with travel expenses related to domestic or international conferences and meetings attended or scheduled to be attended in 2024.
The goal of this award is to support early- and mid-career researchers (0-10 years post-PhD award, relative to opportunity) in cardiovascular and metabolic health across various disciplines, ranging from discovery to implementation science.
Congratulations to the following recipients:
Name |
Institute |
Research area |
Conference |
Osvaldo Contreras |
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute |
Heart disease |
Biomolecular Horizons Congress. Darwin, Australia |
Jeanette Villanueva |
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute |
Heart Transplantation |
30th International Congress of The Transplantation Society. Istanbul, Turkey |
Vivian Lee |
The George Institute for Global Health |
Metabolic disease |
International Joint Congress of the International Society of Obstetric Medicine (ISOM) and the Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand (SOMANZ). Sydney, Australia |
Isabella Tan |
The George Institute for Global Health |
Hypertension |
International Society of Hypertension Scientific Meeting. Cartegena, Columbia |
Lauren Houston |
The George Institute for Global Health |
Heart disease |
72nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne, Australia |