Successful First Working Group Meeting
From Wednesday 19th to Friday 21st of February 2020, the first Working Group Meeting of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action VascAgeNet (“Network for Research in Vascular Ageing”, https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA18216/) was held at Paris Cardiovascular Research Center (PARCC) in Paris. The three-day meeting was an excellent chance for interdisciplinary and intersectional discussions bringing together industry, clinical expertise, basic research and engineering to join forces to push the concept of vascular ageing. In total, 62 researchers and industrial representatives participated in the plenary sessions, workshop sessions and social activities. During the meeting, the next activities were commenced to strengthen the collaboration and to refine, harmonize and promote the use of vascular ageing biomarkers. An important part of the activities will be the organization of training schools, the provision of conference grants for Early Career Investigators and PhD students from inclusiveness target countries and the possibility for grants to support short term scientific missions. The network currently compromises researchers and industrial partners from 30 European countries and two International Partner Countries (Australia and USA) and is open for the expansion to further COST countries
From Wednesday 19th to Friday 21st of February 2020, the first Working Group Meeting of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action VascAgeNet (“Network for Research in Vascular Ageing”, https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA18216/) was held at Paris Cardiovascular Research Center (PARCC) in Paris. The three-day meeting was an excellent chance for interdisciplinary and intersectional discussions bringing together industry, clinical expertise, basic research and engineering to join forces to push the concept of vascular ageing. In total, 62 researchers and industrial representatives participated in the plenary sessions, workshop sessions and social activities. During the meeting, the next activities were commenced to strengthen the collaboration and to refine, harmonize and promote the use of vascular ageing biomarkers. An important part of the activities will be the organization of training schools, the provision of conference grants for Early Career Investigators and PhD students from inclusiveness target countries and the possibility for grants to support short term scientific missions. The network currently compromises researchers and industrial partners from 30 European countries and two International Partner Countries (Australia and USA) and is open for the expansion to further COST countries.
