May 16 - 19, 2002 - Salt Lake City, Utah
Cardiovascular Development Conference
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May 16 - 19, 2002 - Salt Lake City, Utah |
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Cardiovascular Development Conference |
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Weinstein InformationWeinstein Cardiovascular Development Conference Organizing Committee
Weinstein Cardiovascular Development Conference Local Organizing Committee at the University of Utah
Conference HistoryThe Weinstein Cardiovascular Development Conference is a continuation of an annual meeting of investigators funded by three separate RFAs on Cardiac Development in 1986, 1988, and 1990. Grants funded under the RFA mechanism resulted in a total of 26 research programs in the area of Cardiac Development. A separate program of Specialized Centers in Research (SCORs) in Congenital Heart Disease resulted in the addition of investigators from the Universities of Iowa, Pennsylvania and Rochester. Investigators were brought together annually at the National Institutes of Health to discuss their latest research results and discuss potential areas of collaboration. The first meeting was held in a basement meeting room at the NIH and included approximately a dozen participants. Upon the expiration of the last of the RFA programs, there was a strong interest in keeping these collegial and informative meetings going. The first independent meeting was held by the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston in 1994. The following year (1995) the meeting was held at the University of Rochester. At this time, to honor Dr. Constance Weinstein of the NIH, the meeting was formally named the Weinstein Cardiovascular Development Conference. Subsequent meetings were sponsored by the University of Pennsylvannia (1996), the University of Cinncinnati (1997), Vanderbilt University (1998), the University of Arizona (1999), and Washington University in St. Louis (2000) and University of Texas, Southwestern at Dallas (2001). |