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(Hypertension. 2008;51:421.)
© 2008 American Heart Association, Inc.

Preface

61st Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research

John E. Hall

From the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson.

Correspondence to John E. Hall, Editor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216. E-mail jehall{at}physiology.umsmed.edu

This issue of Hypertension contains selected manuscripts based on the presentations at the 61st Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research, held September 26 to 29, 2007, in Tucson, Ariz. By all objective measures the council meeting was a great success, and we congratulate the members of the program committee chaired by Clinton Webb.

The council meeting was preceded by a workshop on "New Developments in the Renin-Angiotensin System: the (Pro) Renin Receptor, Renin Inhibition and ACE2." There were 702 registered attendees at the main council meeting, and 478 abstracts were submitted. The program committee selected 398 abstracts for presentation as oral and poster communications. In addition to the free communications, presentations by the award recipients and the special state-of-the-art lecturers all contributed to an excellent meeting.

The 2007 Novartis Award, the most prestigious award in hypertension research, was presented to Friedrich C. Luft, MD (Figure 1). Professor Luft, Director of the Experimental and Clinical Research Center at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin, Germany, was honored for his discoveries in three areas of hypertension: (1) sodium intake, kidney function, and arterial pressure in humans; (2) immune mechanisms in hypertension; and (3) the genetics of hypertension. Professor Luft’s excellent lecture "Lost in Translation" recounted his work that identified a specific gene region on chromosome 12 in a family from Turkey in which half of all family members have severe hypertension and brachydactyly.

View larger version (50K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. The Novartis Award for Hypertension Research. Shown is Friedrich C. Luft, MD.

The Irvine Page-Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by an endowment from Monarch Pharmaceuticals, was presented to Ernesto L. Schiffrin, MD, PhD, for outstanding contributions to the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and to the fields of basic and clinical hypertension research. Professor Schiffrin is Physician-in-Chief, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish Hospital, Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Hypertension and Vascular Research Unit, Lady Davis Institute, McGill University (Figure 2).

View larger version (44K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 2. The Irvine Page-Alva Bradley Lifetime Achievement award. Shown is Ernesto L. Schiffrin, MD, PhD.

Curt D. Sigmund, PhD, presented the Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture on "A Novel Role for PPAR in the Regulation of Vascular Function." Professor Sigmund is Director of the Center on the Functional Genomics of Hypertension and Director of the Transgenic Facility at the University of Iowa (Figure 3).

View larger version (39K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 3. The Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecturer. Shown is Curt D. Sigmund, PhD.

Debra Diz, PhD, Professor and Director of Basic Sciences Research Programs at the Hypertension and Vascular Research Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, presented the Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Lecture on "The Renin-Angiotensin System and Cardiovascular Control Mechanisms During Aging" (Figure 4).

View larger version (34K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 4. The Lewis K. Dahl Lecturer. Shown is Debra I. Diz, PhD.

The three finalists selected for the Harry Goldblatt New Investigator Award were Christine Maric, PhD, from Georgetown University; Sean D. Stocker, PhD, from the University of Kentucky; and Rao Fangwen, MD, from the University of California at San Diego. This award recognizes a new independent investigator working in hypertension or cardiovascular research who has significantly contributed to our understanding of the causes of hypertension and related cardiovascular disease. Dr Stocker was selected as the winner for his presentation on "Hypothalamic Paraventricular Nucleus Contributes to the Sympathoexcitatory Effects of Hyperinsulinemia" (Figure 5).

View larger version (27K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 5. The Harry Goldblatt New Investigator. Shown is Sean D. Stocker, PhD.

There were 74 manuscripts submitted for consideration, and all were subjected to rigorous peer review. Of these, 23 were accepted for publication and represent the high caliber of research presented at the meeting. Unfortunately, many meritorious manuscripts could not be accepted. Only those that required minor or no revisions could be accepted for publication in this special issue. We expect that several of the manuscripts submitted will be published in a regular issue of Hypertension once the authors have had time to make the revisions.

On behalf of the editors, I want to express our appreciation to those who reviewed the papers submitted for this special issue of Hypertension. We regret that only a small representative number of the many excellent papers submitted could be published in these proceedings.

It is with great appreciation that we acknowledge the many reviewers who have selflessly served the research community by reviewing manuscripts for the Proceedings for the Council for High Blood Pressure Research Hypertension for 2007.

Rajiv Agarwal

R. Wayne Alexander

William J. Arendshorst

Nick Ashton

Pablo Avanzas

Sebastian Bachmann

Michael Bader

John C. Barbato, Jr.

Jacques D. Barth

Matthias Barton

George W. Booz

Fady T. Botros

Michael W. Brands

Josephine P. Briggs

K. Bridget Brosnihan

Nancy J. Brown

James B. Byrd

David A. Calhoun

Maria J. Campagnole-Santos

William B. Campbell

Robert M. Carey

Pamela K. Carmines

Judith Cartwright

Lisa A. Cassis

Mark W. Chapleau

Mark C. Chappell

Jean-Marc Chillon

George T. Cicila

John M. Connell

J. Thomas Cunningham

William A. Cupples

Alexandre A. da Silva

Roger A. Dampney

A.H. Jan Danser

Alan Daugherty

Sandra T. Davidge

Jaap Deinum

Sean P. Didion

Peter A. Doris

Duska Dragun

Daniel A. Duprez

Satoru Eguchi

Merrill F. Elias

Robert H. Fagard

Frank M. Faraci

Francisco J. Fenoy

Paolo Ferrari

Nicholas R. Ferreri

Gregory D. Fink

Peter Fuller

John W. Funder

Haralambos Gavras

Dongliang Ge

Sam Gidding

Guido Grassi

Karsten Grote

Patrice G. Guyenet

Tom Guzik

Par Hallberg

Joseph R. Haywood

Daniel Henrion

Yoshitaka Hirooka

Hirofumi Hitomi

Richard L. Hoover

Norbert Hubner

Alun Hughes

Tahir Hussain

Radu Iliescu

Edward W. Inscho

Edwin K. Jackson

Edgar Jaimes

Richard J. Johnson

Pedro A. Jose

Armin Just

Nancy L. Kanagy

S. Ananth Karumanchi

Henry L. Keen

Darren Kelly

Ronan P. Kelly

Ali A. Khraibi

Shokei Kim-Mitsuyama

Ulrich Kintscher

Mark Knepper

Hiroyuki Kobori

Raymond C. Koehler

Rajesh Kumar

Frans H. H. Leenen

Stephen J. Lewis

Tang-Dong Liao

Pedro Lopez-Sanchez

Kafait U. Malik

R. Davis Manning, Jr.

Martin W. McBride

Alicia A. McDonough

John C. McGiff

Steve Mifflin

Amy Milsted

Brett M. Mitchell

Takefumi Mori

Ryuichi Morishita

Dominik N. Muller

Michael J. Mulvany

L. Gabriel Navar

Juan F. Navarro

Genevieve Nguyen

Wilmer W. Nichols

Juerg Nussberger

Toshio Ogihara

Kenji Okumura

J. Michael Overton

Fredrik Palm

Kailash N. Pandey

Erik G. Persson

Jennifer S. Pollock

Michal Pravenec

Raymond P. Quigley

John Quilley

Ton J. Rabelink

Kamal Rahmouni

Leopoldo Raij

Mohan K. Raizada

Jane F. Reckelhoff

Timothy L. Reudelhuber

Damiano Rizzoni

Anton J.M. Roks

J. Carlos Romero

Nelson Ruiz-Opazo

Michael J. Ryan

Junichi Sadoshima

Miguel G. Salom

Kathryn Sandberg

Paul W. Sanders

Giuseppe Schillaci

Harold D. Schultz

George Seki

Joseph I. Shapiro

Alan R. Sinaiko

Harold Snieder

Patricio Soares-da-Silva

James R. Sowers

Robert C. Speth

David E. Stec

Sean D. Stocker

Jack Strandhoy

Alan F. Sved

E. Ann Tallant

W. Robert Taylor

Gaetan Thibault

Hirofumi Tomiyama

Hidenori Urata

Donna H. Wang

Ji-Guang Wang

Mong-Heng Wang

Stephanie W. Watts

William J. Welch

Ian B. Wilkinson

J. Michael Wyss

Yoram Yagil

Sho-ichi Yamagishi

Kazuyuki Yanai

Matthew C. Zimmerman

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