Obituary: Professor Olga Hudlicka

With great sadness, I would like to inform the members of the European Society for Microcirculation that Professor Olga Hudlicka passed away recently. She was active until her last days working as Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham.
She was very well-known and appreciated in the scientific community world-wide, because of her enormous contribution to the field of microcirculation and to understand general physiology. She published more than 200 papers, chapters and reviews and edited 3 books.

Stuart Egginton, Akos Koller, Olga Hudlicka, Mayumi Kajimura, Steve Segal

Her life was full of adventure. After escaping from the communist Czechoslovakia in 1968, she moved to Birmingham and stayed there until the end of her life. I have heard about her first in the early 70’s in Hungary, secretly, because we were not supposed to mention her name because she escaped to the West! Then, later I met her in person and learned what a great scientist and person she was. Interestingly, as it turned out later during a dinner conversation at a Microcirculatory Society Meeting, her husband and Gabor Kaley were together in a labor camp in Bor, (in former Yugoslavia), during the Second World War.

I was lucky to see her last year at the IUPS Conference in Birmingham, when she invited us to her home for a dinner (see picture attached). It was delightful to talk to her and enjoy her wisdom of life.

She had received many awards and recognitions, but what I am the most happy for is the Malpighi Award (European Society for Microcirculation) in 2008, when I had the privilege to organize the ESM Conference, in Budapest, Hungary.
She has collaborated world-wide and all of us listened to her scientific advices and painfully logical questions. She always welcomed the young scientists in her lab or talked to them at the poster sessions of meetings. Everybody sensed when she was around.

We will all miss her, another giant has left us.

You can read more on the webpage of British Microcirculatory Society (www.microcirculation.org.uk)

Akos Koller
ESM, Secretary General

3^rd Joint Meeting of the GfMVB and the SSMVR and the
36^th Annual Meeting of the GfMVB

Münster (Germany) from 30 September – 02 October 2014

The online registration and the abstract  submission for the 3^rd Joint Meeting of the German Society for Microcirculation and Vascular Biology (GfMVB) and the Swiss Society for Microcirculation and Vascular Research (SSMVR) and the  36^th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Microcirculation and Vascular Biology (GfMVB) is now possible.

Please follow the link http://www.microcirculation-conference.de/ to reach the convention homepage for further information.

There will be sessions from the 30th of September to the 2nd of October with many highly qualified speakers and workshops with a limited number of participants (max. 4-6 persons/workshop) in advanced live cell imaging from the 29th to the 30th of September.

Vascular Biology 2014

Asilomar Conference Grounds, Monterey, CA
October 19, 2014, 7:15 p.m. to October 23, 2014, 12:00pm
www.navbo.org/vb2014

The meeting will feature two workshops:
* Vascular Inflammation
* Developmental Vascular Biology and Genetics

and targeted symposia:
* Vascular Therapeutics Symposium
* Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Vascular Disorder HHT Symposium
* Microcirculation (three symposia)

Abstract deadline is August 1, 2014
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Molecular Mechanisms in Lymphatic Function & Disease

2014, March 8-9, Lucca (Barga), Italy

Gordon Research Seminar, New Frontiers in Lymphatic Research
Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort
Lucca (Barga), Italy
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2014&program=grs_lymph

New president of Italian Society

Antonio Colantuoni (Professor of Physiology, MD) was elected President of Italian Society of Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation on January 24, 2014 for  the ongoing three years.

Antonio Colantuoni
Professor of Physiology, MD
Federico II University Medical School
Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery
80131 Naples
Italy
Tel. : +39 081 7463212
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