The final VascAgeNet Workshop and WG Meeting was a big success! Thanks to all 50 participants to come to our final meeting in Riga, Latvia at the Riga Stradins University. We had 41 great talks about presenting our achievements from the last 4.5 years (e.g., publications, outcomes from STSMs, ongoing activities) and three very fruitful sessions to plan and discuss future activities in the new VascAgeNet WGs under the umbrella
The second edition of the book “Early Vascular Aging (EVA): New Directions in Cardiovascular Protection, Second Edition” has been officially published! And it includes a chapter about the first 4 years of VascAgeNet 🙂 Please spread the word and check it out at: https://shop.elsevier.com/books/early-vascular-aging-eva/cunha/978-0-443-15512-3
2024 Recommendations for Validation of Noninvasive Arterial Pulse Wave Velocity Measurement Devices are published! And they are endorsed by the Association for Research into Arterial Structure and Physiology (ARTERY), the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on Large Arteries, European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action VascAgeNet, North American Artery Society, ARTERY LATAM, Pulse of Asia, and Society for Arterial Stiffness—Germany-Austria-Switzerland (DeGAG). Please check the article here! And overview
We want to thank you for your participation in and contribution to VascAgeNet and its activities in 2023! We can be really proud of what we have achieved together – not just this year, but so far in VascAgeNet. We are happy to move on with all of you for the remaining months of VascAgeNet and thereafter in the newly created working groups under the umbrella of the Artery Society!
Exciting news! We are pleased to announce our latest animation: Vascular Ageing for Clinicians by RIVA Illustrations! Find further educational videos and a version with Spanish subtitles here!
The final call for STSMs is open now! Please apply! The STSM has to be performed before the end of April 2024. Find more information on STSMs here: https://vascagenet.eu/short-term-scientific-missions
Today marks 4 years of COST Action VascAgeNet! This word cloud represents key words our amazing members associate with us – a beautiful reflection of our shared values and goals! Thank you all for your dedication. Here’s to many more years of collaboration and friendship.
An important step for securing the sustainability of VascAgeNet, which ends in May 2024, were our discussions and negotiations with the Artery Society to integrate activities and working groups into the structures of the Artery Society (as informed earlier). Finally, the merge was finalized, documents signed and announced at the Artery 23 conference in the Annual Business Meeting of the Artery Society. So, we are happy to announce that our
We just returned from the Artery 23 conference, which we have co-organized with the Artery Society and DeGAG. The conference was a full success especially due to all the contributions by and the participation of VascAgeNet participants. Thanks a lot and it was great meeting at the conference! Some highlights were the following sessions and invited talks organized by VascAgeNet: The VascAgeNet Roundtable “Translational Science in Vascular Ageing” with four
Christopher C. Mayer (Chair of VascAgeNet) was invited to the conference “Life Sciences Baltics” (20-21/09/2023; Vilnius, Lithuania, https://lifesciencesbaltics.com/). It was a great opportunity to present VascAgeNet and the results of the COST Action in the invited talk “Vascular ageing: Moving from bench towards bedside”. Thanks to Vaidotas Marozas, Director of the Biomedical Engineering Institute at Kaunas University of Technology (Kaunas, Lithuania) for the opportunity