75th Annual Meeting of the British Microcirculation and Vascular Biology Society
75th Annual Meeting of the British Microcirculation and Vascular Biology Society
University of Surrey, Guildford Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th July 2025
Speaker line-up announced
Christiana Ruhrberg is Professor of Neuronal and Vascular Biology, University College London, Institute of Ophthalmology. The Ruhrberg lab investigates the role of the extracellular matrix and VEGF isoforms in neovascular eye disease and critical limb ischemia and during development.Guillermo Luxan is Group Leader at the Institute of Cardiovascular Regeneration in Frankfurt (Germany). His group investigates the role of the cardiac micro-vasculature in ageing and chronic heart failure with a special focus on pericytes. Furthermore, he is interested in the inter organ communication such as between post-myocardial infarction heart failure and the bone vascular niche.Katie Bentley is Group Leader at the Crick Institute, focusing on cellular adaptive behaviour. Her group uses computer simulations to untangle how cells coordinate, compete and change shape to grow well-adapted tissue structures during development – and abnormal structures in disease.Maria Bernabeu Aznar is Group Leader and Co-chair of Infection Biology Transversal Theme. The Bernabeu group aims to understand the mechanisms that lead to vascular dysfunction in cerebral malaria by developing new in vitro models of the human blood-brain barrier.Sanjay Sinha is a British Heart Foundation (BHF) Senior Research Fellow and a Professor in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Consultant in Cardiology and he combines his research work with clinical duties at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, where he treats patients with a wide variety of cardiovascular diseases. The Sinha Lab’s overall aim is to develop new treatments for cardiovascular diseases, using our expertise in cardiovascular development, regeneration and disease modelling.Michael Taggart is Chair of Reproductive Sciences at Newcastle University. His group investigates the molecular, cellular, tissue and organ remodelling events that occur in the mother and fetus during pregnancy and the impact these have for post-natal life to adulthood, using human tissue biopsies, animal models and computational models.Beata Wojciak-Stothard is Professor in Vascular Biology National Heart & Lung Institute at Imperial College London. Her research group studies the molecular processes influencing pulmonary endothelial homeostasis utilising data from proteomic, genomic and metabolomic screening of patient samples. Employing novel experimental approaches including organ-on-a-chip platforms, she aims to develop new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension.
