Join us in Melbourne in December for our Annual Scientific Meeting
We would like to invite you
to a very special 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) of the
High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia, to be held
in Melbourne on December 3-5.
This will be the 30th meeting
of the Council and we are taking the opportunity to make it bigger
and better than ever to celebrate our significant Birthday.
It will be a meeting that
looks forward to our future growth by highlighting our younger
researchers and the first class science for which the Council
is renown. But it will also be a meeting that looks back to our
origins and the people and ideas that have shaped the remarkable
success of blood pressure research in Australia. There will be
a whole series of commemorative activities that will look at today’s
Council in context and be entertaining as well.
Therefore, we encourage you
to come to Melbourne in December. Bring your team and your best
work to share with colleagues and friends and be a part of history
in the making. In particular, don’t miss the Celebratory Dinner
to be held atop the remarkable Eureka Tower with a view and atmosphere
worthy of the occasion.
The Scientific Program will
be headlined by our named lectureships: Professor Carlos Ferrario
as our RD Wright Lecturer, Associate Professor David Sinclair
as the Austin E Doyle Lecturer and Associate Professor Bruce Neal
as the Colin I Johnston Lecturer for 2008.
As always, the ASM will be
highlighting the work of our student and early postdoctoral members,
with special sessions and a range of valuable awards including
Early Career Investigator Award that will allow one of our young
stars to travel to Britain for the BHS Meeting in 2009. There
will also be travel grants available to support younger members
to attend the meeting in Melbourne.
You will be pleased to know
that the abstracts from the Melbourne meeting will be eligible
for publication in Hypertension as Proceedings of the ASM.
To share in all these opportunities,
and to take advantage of the lower members' ASM registration costs,
we'd especially encourage students to join the HBPRCA for free
as Student Members (www.hbprca.com.au).
Melbourne 2008 will be a
marvellous meeting for the HBPRCA – a scientific and social treat
that you won’t want to miss.
We look forward to seeing
you there.
