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(Hypertension. 2007;49:585.)
© 2007 American Heart Association, Inc.

Preface

The 60th Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research in association with the Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease

L. Gabriel Navar

From the Department of Physiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, La.

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The 60th Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research in association with the Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease, held October 4–7, 2006, in San Antonio, Tex, was a great success. More than 500 abstracts were submitted, and the program committee selected almost 400 for presentation as oral and poster communications. The workshop held the day before the meeting was on Sex Hormones, Gender, and Hypertension, with talks ranging from molecular mechanisms to clinical implications. In addition to the free communications, talks by the recipients of the Novartis, Corcoran, and Irving Page Bradley Lifetime Achievement Awards as well as special state-of-the-art lecturers all contributed to an exciting meeting covering many timely and novel aspects of hypertension research. A new exciting feature of the meeting was the revised Goldblatt Young Investigator award. Three outstanding young investigators were selected to present their work during a specific session. The awards committee then selected the winner and announced the winner at the awards luncheon.

The awards presented at the meeting recognize outstanding achievement in hypertension research. Our premier award given to investigators who have made outstanding discoveries in hypertension research is the Novartis Award for Hypertension Research. The 2 recipients of the 2006 Novartis Award are William B. Campbell, PhD, FAHA, and Theodore W. Kurtz, MD FAHA (Figure 1). Dr Campbell received the award for pioneering discoveries on the role of endothelium-derived factors in the regulation of vasomotor function and aldosterone secretion. He identified . . . [Full Text of this Article]