NEWS & president's Welcome
NEWS
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Welcome
Welcome to the official Australia and New Zealand Microcirculation Society (ANZMS) website.
Our Society interests cover a wide range of microcirculation research, and includes physiologists, pharmacologists, cell and molecular biologists and clinicians interested in mechanisms that underlie microvessel function in health and disease. Diseases of interest include diabetes, pregnancy disorders, eye disease, renal disease, heart failure, endothelial dysfunction, arthritis, wound healing and atherosclerosis.
The ANZMS has held successful biannual scientific meetings since 1980 (see “History” for a complete details). Our last meeting, the 14th of the ANZMS, was held in Queenstown, New Zealand, August 25th-28th, 2009,with two plenary lectures by eminent vascular biologists, Peter Koopman and Colin Green, and symposia on lymphatics, endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress, angiogenesis and stem cells, wound healing and microvascular pathology. The meeting was a great success; one of the primary aims of this years ANZMS meeting was to generate more active New Zealand participation in the Society, but it also had the effect of increasing the Australian participation in New Zealand !
An ongoing initiative of the ANZMS is to attract more young people to become active members of the Society. 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.
Michael Hickey, President, ANZMS
