NEWS & president's Welcome
The first notice for the 2009 ANZMS meeting to be held at Queenstown, NZ has been posted.
View the notification here
Welcome to the official Australia and New Zealand Microcirculation Society (ANZMS) website. The first thing you may notice is our new logo. This has been designed to replace the previous red corpuscle “dinner setting” logo with a view to modernise the image. The logo may be viewed as a nucleated leucocyte or an inverted globe showing Oz and NZ on top or anything else you like. Please let us know what you think.
Because of the diversity of microcirculation research our society encompasses a mixture of researchers including physiologists, cell and molecular biologists and clinicians interested in physiological mechanisms and a number of diseases such as diabetes, pregnancy disorders, eye disease, renal disease, heart failure, endothelial dysfunction and arthritis.
Traditionally we have had very successful small scientific meetings held biannually since 1980 (see “History” for a complete list of meetings). For our next meeting we will experiment with a different style – keep coming back to the “Upcoming Meetings” page as we release more information.
A new initiative is to attract more young blood to become active members of ANZMS. For further information on membership, please contact our Secretary, Colin Carati. There is another new section where you can freely advertise job vacancies.
By the way, we currently have no Tasmanian representative, so if you’re from Tassie and have an interest in Microcirculation please contact us.
2008 will be an interesting year - the European Congress is in Budapest and the Asian Congress is Taishan China, with our next meeting planned for Queenstown, NZ, in August, 2009. Hope you can make it.
Shaun Sandow, President ANZMS
