SCMH 2nd ECR Symposium
Published: 26 May 2023
The School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health (SCMH) held its 2nd Early Career Researcher Symposium on 25th April 2023 in Advanced Research Centre (ARC)
The School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health (SCMH) held its 2nd Early Career Researcher Symposium on 25th April 2023 in Advanced Research Centre (ARC). Early Career Researcher (ECR) includes PhD students, Postdocs, and research fellows in clinical, translational, and basic sciences. The symposium was commenced by Dr. Karla Neves’ introduction about her exciting project concerned with vascular mechanisms underlying anticancer therapies-induced toxicities. Dr. Neves is recently appointed as Lecturer in the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, where she is establishing her own lab. She kindly shared her scientist journey and the obstacles encountered when transitioning from PhD to lecturer position.
Eleven amazing ECRs shared their works across multiple areas of cardiovascular and metabolic research. Four of them were 2022 ISSF-ECR Award Winners (Dr Max Ralston, Dr Noha Alshuwayer, Manshi Zhou and Cara Trivett). It was great to see these awards helped their work to progress.
Our closure speakers were Dr. Scott MacKenzie and Dr. Rory Porteus. Dr. MacKenzie talked about Athena SWAN and its activities to improve our working environment. We had a very friendly and inclusive discussion about what more can be done to make things better for ECRs. Dr. Porteus covered actions and practices that reduce carbon emission and increase the sustainability in research labs. He also introduced Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (LEAF) developed by Sustainable UCL (further information about LEAF here).
To express our appreciation and gratitude to our biggest supporter British Heart Foundation (BHF), we organized the BAKE FOR FUN event as part of this ECR Symposium to raise money for and awareness of cardiovascular diseases. This bake-sale session was in collaboration with our SCMH Kiltwalk team #TeamBHF and received great support from our ECR fellows and school kids.
Overall, it was a wonderful day! We greatly appreciate everyone who attended, chaired, presented and/or contributed to our BAKE FOR FUN session. We also thank Proteintech for sponsoring our event.
First published: 26 May 2023