Education

The ECCR offers several online educational events where you can connect with young and senior investigators, opinion leaders and mentors in the field of hypertension and cardiometabolic research.

ECCR educational events are a great way to gain an in-depth understanding to the latest basic, clinical and translational research of essential aspects of hypertension and cardiometabolic disease

• Webinars
• Journal club
• Mentoring activities

Joint webinar ECCR – Turkish Society of Pharmacology

Covid-19 and the Cardiovascular System: From Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Perspectives – Jan 27^th, 2021 (3-5 pm CET)

Cardiovascular disease as a risk factor and complication of COVID-19 – Rhian Touyz, Glasgow, UK

Covid-19, an endothelial disease – Thomas Lüscher, Zürich, Switzerland

Round Table -New Evidences and Possible Treatment Options Targeting Cardiovascular System

• Covid 19 and vascular aging –  Rosa M Bruno, Paris, France
• Covid-19 and ACE2- RAAS Inhibition – Matthias Barton, Zürich, Switzerland
• Covid 19 and eicosanoids – omega-3 derived pro-resolving lipid mediators – Gokce Topal, Istanbul, Turkey

Experimental Biology 2020 Symposium of the American Physiological Society

The Protective Arm of the Renin-Angiotensin System – April 13^th, 2021 (2.00 -3.30 pm)

Chairs: Rhian Touyz, Glasgow and Thomas Unger, Maastricht

Speakers:
• The meaning of Mas – Michael Bader, Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC)
• The many aspects of cross-talk between the AT2-receptor and Mas – Ulrike Muscha
Steckelings, University of Southern Denmark
• The protective ACE2/Ang 1-7/Mas axis in stroke – Colin Sumners College of Medicine,
University of Florida Gainesville
• Novel therapeutic approaches upregulating the ACE2/angiotensin-(1-7)/Mas axis –
Ludovit Paulis, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
• AT2 agonists as treatment for vascular damage associated to obesity – Marta Gil-Ortega, Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid