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Wrapping up the day, we have A/Prof Shane Thomas, who will be showing us new animal models for cardiovascular disease #AVBS2024

Congratulations to Dr Anne Lagendijk Anne K. Lagendijk 🏳️‍🌈 who is the recipient of the 2024 AVBS Career Development Award #AVBS2024

Unfortunately we’re in the final day of #AVBS2024. But we’re hearing some awesome work from Dr Shu Wen Wen, talking about intravital imaging of thrombi in the lungs after stroke MonashCID

Next up is Samantha Loong, showing their work on platelet nano particles to target NET formation Baker Institute #AVBS2024

Sticking with the platelet theme, we now have Dr Vera Ripoll, speaking about PF4-mediated immune thrombosis #AVBS2024

Congratulations to one of HRI's very talented PhD students, Alexander Lin, from Ashish Misra. Alex has been awarded as the 'AVBS Student Young Investigator Runner-Up’ at the Australian Vascular Biology Society conference currently happening in Lorne. Well done Alex! 👏 #AVBS2024

And wrapping up the session, Prof Grant Drummond, showing their work on inflammasomes and IL-18 in the development of hypertension Grant Drummond #AVBS2024

Starting out final session, is the intravital wizard, Prof Edwin Hawkins, speaking about endothelial derived-EVs WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute) #AVBS2024

Next up, Amber Driessen, who is investigating focal adhesion dynamics under haemodynamic forces #AVBS2024

And now all the way from the UK, we have Dr Sally Dreger, talking about their work on the gut microbiome and how it impacts vascular development Quadram Institute #AVBS2024

Our penultimate talk is from Dr Kristen Bubb Dr Kristen Bubb from the Monash Victorian Heart Institute, talking about Natriuretic peptide receptor C in vascular disease #AVBS2024

And last, but certainly not last, we have Prof Steve Stacker from the Peter Mac Cancer Centre, speaking of their work defining the early vascular phase of the pre-metastatic niche

And that’s a wrap! A huge thank you to @dancnwthmycellf and Prof Andrew Murphy for organising an amazing meeting. We’ve seen some awesome science and made some great memories. See you all next year! #AVBS2024 #AVBS2025

As we're slowly recovering from the post-conference blues, let's look back and celebrate. Here is our flash-talk winner: Simon Xu Baker Institute

Next, we celebrate the excellent research from our young investigators. The runner up for the Young Investigator Award is: Alexander Lin Heart Research Institute #AVBS2024

Our winner for the Young Investigator Award 2024, is Zoe Zhang! Congratulations, Zoe! Baker Institute #AVBS2024

Next up, we celebrate the ECRs in our society, and the Runner Up for the 2024 ECR Award is: Dr Josh Bourne Josh Bourne MonashCID #AVBS2024

And finally, the winner of the ECR Award 2024 is: Dr Mitch Moon! Congratulations Mitch! Dr. Mitchell Moon Baker Institute #AVBS2024

Congratulations to all those vascular biology scientists Australian Vascular Biology Society who received funding from the Heart Foundation 🥂🥂👏👏