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Current Jobs
Announcements
Doctoral Researcher Positions at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Augsburg, Germany
Application Deadline: January 31st, 2025
Executive Committee / National Representatives
Executive Committee
President
Eszter Farkas, Ph.D. habil. D.Sc.
Chair, Professor of Experimental Medicine
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine
Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, Faculty of Science and Informatics
University of Szeged, Somogyi u. 4, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
phone: +36-62-342-208, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Past President
Prof. Christian Aalkjær
Department of Biomedicine - Forskning og uddannelse, Skou-bygningen
Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 10, building 1115, 422
8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
phone: +4530454306
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Main Editor JVR
Prof. Brant E. Isakson
The Isakson Lab at the University of Virginia
University of Virginia School of Medicine
P.O. Box 801394,
Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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General Secretary
Prof. Dr. Henning Morawietz
Division of Vascular Endothelium and Microcirculation
Department of Medicine III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus
Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany
phone: +49-351-458 6625
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Treasurer
Prof. Nicola J Brown
Professor of Microcirculation Biology
Microcirculation Research Group, Department of Oncology & Metabolism
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health, University of Sheffield, S10 2RX UK
phone: +44 114 2159001
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Publication and International Affairs
Prof. Akos Koller
Department of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Department of Physiology, New York Medical College, Valhalla NY, 10595 USA
Phone: +36709020681
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Non-Professorial Representative
PD Dr. med. Elena Osto
Assistant Professor, University and University Hospital Zurich, Institute of Clinical Chemistry
Wagistrasse 14, CH 8952 Schlieren, Switzerland
phone: + 41-43-253 30 98
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Strategy Committee Chairs
Prof. Richard Siow
Vice-Dean (International)
Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
King’s College London
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Prof. Dr. Boy (A.J.H.M.) Houben
Associate Professor; Dept. of Internal Medicine
School for Cardiovascular Diseases CARIM; Maastricht University Medical Center+
P.O. Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
phone: +31-43-3 877005 (secr.)
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Strategy Committee Members
Prof. Dr. Ana Stupin
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology and Immunology
Faculty of Medicine JJ Strossmayer
University of Osijek, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia
phone: +38531512869
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Prof. Dr. Anja Meissner
Assistant Professor, Vascular Biology, Department of Experimental Medical Sciences
Lund University and Wallenberg Centre for Molecular Medicine (WCMM)
BMC D12, Klinikgatan 32, 221 84 Lund, SWEDEN
phone: +46-46-222 06 41
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Prof. Dr. Erik N.T.P. Bakker
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Physics
Amsterdam University Medical Centers
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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National Representatives
The following National Societies have Representatives to the ESM:
The Committee of any national microcirculation society which has at least ten joint members with the Society may appoint one of their members as their Representative on the Executive Committee. A group of not less than ten members of the Society in a country where no officially constituted microcirculation society exists may appoint one of the group as a Representative on the Executive Committee. The tenure of office of a National Representative will depend on the electing members, but shall not exceed six years unless the Representative is reappointed.
American Society representative
Prof. Gerald A. Meininger
University of Missouri
Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center
Office Phone: 573-884-4954
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Asian and Pacific Region representative
Dr. Masaya Oda, MD
Organized Center of Clinical Medicine
International University of Health & Welfare and Dept. of Internal Medicine, Sanno Hospital
8-10-16 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052, Japan
phone: +81-3-3402 3151 / fax: +81-3-3404 3652
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British Microcirculation and Vascular Biology Society
Prof. Lopa Leach PhD FAS FRSB
Professor of Vascular Biology
School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
University of Nottingham, UK
Mobile: +447794489738
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French Society representative
Prof. Dr. Eric Vicaut
Hôpital Fernand Widal
Unité de Recherche Clinique, Bâtiment François Rabelais
200, Rue du Faubourg St. Denis, 75010 Paris, France
phone: +33-1-40 05 49 73 / fax: +33-1-40 05 49 74
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German Society representative
Prof. Dr. Henning Morawietz
Division of Vascular Endothelium and Microcirculation
Department of Medicine III
University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus
Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstr. 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany
phone: +49-351-458 6625
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President of the Georgian Microcirculation Society
Prof. Dr. Maia Mantskava, MD
Director of Diagnostic and Analitic servises
Head of Blood Miсrocirсulation and Hemorheology
Center of Experimental Biomedicine
Director of DAO clinic
Tbilisi, Georgia
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President of the Hungarian Society for Microcirculation and Vascular Biology
Eszter Farkas, Ph.D. habil. D.Sc.
Chair, Professor of Experimental Medicine
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine
Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School, Faculty of Science and Informatics
University of Szeged, Somogyi u. 4, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
phone: +36-62-342-208
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Israeli Society representative
Prof. Dr. Saul Yedgar
Hebrew University
Hadassah Medical School, Dept. of Biochemistry
Jerusalem 91120, Israel
phone: +972-2-6 43 92 18 / fax: +972-2-6 78 40 10
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Italian Society of Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation
Prof. Dr. Marco Rossi
vice-president
Dipartment of di Internal Medicine, University of Pisa
Via Roma 67, 56100 Pisa, Italy
phone: +39-50.993207 / fax: +39-50.553414
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Japanese Society representative
Dr. Masaya Oda, MD
Organized Center of Clinical Medicine
International University of Health & Welfare and Dept. of Internal Medicine, Sanno Hospital
8-10-16 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0052, Japan
phone: +81-3-3402 3151 / fax: +81-3-3404 3652
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Dutch Society for Microcirculation and Vascular Biology (MiVaB) representative
Dr. A.J.H.M. Houben
Maastricht University Medical Center
Dept. of Internal Medicine
P.O. Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
phone: +31-43-3 87 70 05 / fax: +31-43-3 87 50 06
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Portugese Society representative
Prof. Dr. C. Saldanha
Faculdade Medicina Lisboa
Hospitale Sta. Maria, Instituto de Bioquimica
Av. Egas Moniz, 1600 Lisboa, Portugal
phone: +351/21/7 98 51 36 / fax: +351/21/7 93 97 91
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Russian Society representative
Prof. Nicolai Petrishchev
Professor of Pathophysiology Department
St Petersburg State Medical University
Russia 197086, St Petersburg, Lev Tolstoy St 2. 6/8
phone: +7812 499 7069 / fax: +7812 499 7069
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Swiss Society of Microcirculation and Vascular Research (SSMVR) representative
Prof. Britta Engelhardt
Director of Theodor Kocher Institute
University of Bern
Freiestrasse 1, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
phone: +41 31 631 4141 / fax: +41 31 631 3799
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Welcome
The European Society for Microcirculation was formed over 50 years ago and now has approximately 600 members (including members of national societies).
Its aim is
- to advance integrative understanding of physiology and pathophysiology of terminal vascular beds
- to support classical microcirculation as well as vascular biology
- to use basic as well as clinical studies
Its biannual conferences are attended by about 700 scientists from all over the world.
Minutes
Minutes of the meeting of the ESM General Assembly, ESM Online Meeting 2021 (PDF)
Location: Online
Time: Thursday 27th May 2021 9.00 am (CEST)/8.00 am (BST)
Minutes of the Executive Committee Meeting, ESM Online Meeting 2021 (PDF)
Location: Online
Time: Wednesday 26th May 2021 1.00 pm (CEST)/12.00 pm (BST)
Minutes of the meeting of the ESM General Assembly, Maastricht ESM-EVBO 2019 meeting (PDF)
Location: 2.1 Colorado, Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC)
Time: Tuesday 16th April 2019 18.30-19.30
Minutes of the Executive Committee Meeting, Maastricht ESM-EVBO 2019 meeting (PDF)
Location: 2.1 Colorado, Maastricht Exhibition and Congress Centre (MECC)
10.00-11.30 AM April 15, 2019
Minutes of the meeting of the ESM General Assembly, Geneva ESM-EVBO 2017 meeting (PDF)
Location: Centre International de Conférences Genève (CICG)
Time: Wednesday 31st May 2017 from 17.30-19.00, in Room 3.
ESM Working Group on Retinal Microvascular Research
The European Society for Microcirculation (ESM) Working Group on Retinal Microvascular Research - REtinal-SEARCH - is the first working group of ESM, which was launched at the 3rd joint ESM-EVBO Conference in Maastricht, April 2019.
The Focus of the working group is on Retinal Vessel Research in Chronic Disease; Retinal Vessel Analysis as a Vascular Biomarker for cardiometabolic/neurovascular risk; Ophthalmological Diseases, Human RCTs & Epidemiological Studies.
The Aims are: Establishing an international network of experts in the field of retinal vessel analysis; standardization of SOPs for image analyses; generation of position papers and guidelines; joint research proposals; retinal vessel analysis academy.
Further details on RE-SEARCH:
- Target group: researchers and clinicians interested in human in-vivo microvascular research; industry partners
- Finance: No initial financial implications for ESM. Potential financial support would have to be decided on by ESM board.
- Working Group Regulations: to be determined in detail by the Executive Committee & Nucleus Members
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Executive Committee:
Chairman (B. Houben; Maastricht)
Chairman Elect or Co-Chair (H. Hanssen; Basel)
Secretary (C. Schmaderer; Munich)
Treasurer (N.N.)
→ Committee elected every 2 years during WG meeting at conference of ESM
→ Past WG chair remains committee member ex officio -
Nucleus members: A. Flammer, D. Schmidl, M. Ikram, N.N.
→ Elected for 4 years; 2 additional nucleus members to be elected (10 nucleus members) - Meetings: at every ESM Conference (next: Aarhus 2021); additional meeting of the WG in alternating years (e.g. at the summer school: next in Krakow 2020); Skype conferences 2x/year; Initiatives / Task forces (such as writing groups for position statements)
What you need to do to become a member:
- Become a member of the ESM (often connected to a membership of the national society)
- Send an email with short CV (including publications in the field of retinal microvascular research) and your interest/contributions for the WG to B.Houben (b.houben at maastrichtuniversity.nl) and H.Hanssen (henner.hanssen at unibas.ch).
- Researchers who have already expressed their interest to join: Walthard Vilser (Germany), Gerhard Garhöfer (Austria), Akos Koller (Hungary), Lukas Streese (Switzerland), Roman Günthner (Munich), Patrick De Boever (Belgium), Hans-Peter Hammes (Germany), Rebekka Heitmar (UK), Athanase Protogerou (Greece), Tos Berendschot (Netherlands), Konstantin Kotliar (Germany), Sascha Klee (Germany), Leone Malan (South Africa), Angela Shore (UK), Tien Y Wong (Australia) …and many more.
Next Steps & Future Perspectives:
- Database with research interests and ideas for the WG
- Skype conference November 2019
- Prepare Editorial on WG launch & strategy in peer-reviewed journal
- Plan Position Statement
- Start international collaborations
REtina-SEARCH has just release their first newsletter >>
Structure
The business of the Society is conducted by an Executive Committee comprising:
- The President (elected two years in advance of main biennial conference)
- The immediate Past President (President of the last conference)
- The President-Designate (nominated by the Executive Committee)
- The General Secretary (proposed by the Executive Committee, six-year term, renewable)
- The Treasurer (proposed by the Executive Committee, six-year term, renewable)
- The Communication Officer (proposed by the Executive Committee, six-year term)
- The Editor(s) (appointed by the Executive Committee in consultation with the publisher; responsible for publication of Proceedings, Abstracts, a.s.o.)
- The Non-professorial representative (selected from the membership and proposed by the committee, thee-year term, renewable)
- The National Representatives of constituent national societies elected by those societies (tenure of office should not exceed six years unless the Delegate is reappointed)
To merit a place in the Executive Committee, a national society should have at least 10 current members of the European Society.
The Executive Committee meets just before the major meetings of the Society and reports to the Society at the Business Meeting held during the conference. The constitution and rules can only be altered at the General Business Meeting of the Society held during a conference.
Other sub-committees include:
- Strategy Committee
- Editorial Board Committee
- Award Committees
Members are invited to communicate their views about society matters or items they would like to be raised at the Executive Committee or Business Meeting of the Society to their national representatives, the President or the General Secretary