氏名

Yan Xiaoxiang
GCOE RA
内科（循環器）

詳細

GCOE Young Researcher Support Plan(2011年度)
参加日：2011年11月12日～2011年11月16日

活動レポート

I have a chance to attend the America Heart Association (AHA)-Scientific Sessions (2011) hold in Orlando, USA during Nov. 12-16, which is the biggest conference on cardiology with more than 30,000 participants in the world. In our department, more than 10 doctors attended this meeting, most of them had the oral or poster presentation. I was really excited because this is the first time I visit USA, visit the beautiful city, Orlando, it is such a beautiful and comfortable city. All of us enjoyed the traveling.

The conference had seven core sections, containing myocardium function, vascular disease, cardiac imajing, etc, which almost includes all the frontier information about clinical and basic science of cardiovascular medicine. And it was a great learning experience for me. Many many famous speakers around the world including from Japan have brought their very recent work to the audiences. In the Melvin L. Marcus Young Investigator Award in Cardiovascular Sciences Finalist, Dr Qian reported their recent finding, they induced the fibroblast into functional cardiomyocyte, these cardiomyocyes almost had the characteristics of adult cardiomyocyte, when transplated into the infarct heart, the cardiac function was significantly improved by these induced cardiomyocytes. The second speaker from Iowa Univ. found that aldosterone enhances cardiac rupture after myocardial infarction via oxidation of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, which is very promising research in the therapeutics. Dr. Enomoto from our lab also report their excellent work, in which they found that the impaired interaction between titin and MURF1 is a novel mechanism for the pathogenesis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

On the second day of the conference, I was able to share my research work on IL-23/IL-17 axis in the cardiac remodeling with people from different countries. In this conference, there was not so many topics on immunology and cardiovascular disease, so many people are interesting with my work, especially my beautiful flow cytometry data in a specific organ-heart.

I got a lot of cutting edge knowledge from this conference. I really appreciated this opportunity to participate this meeting. I am also grateful for GCOE for their generous support, with all the travel expense.