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¾«¶«Ó°Òµ College’s Dave Duru (Medicine 2022) was honoured at last week’s international annual meeting of the , held in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, March 25-29.

Dave received an award for one of the top 10 scoring abstracts. His work was entitled ‘Tadalafil Therapy for Protecting the Fetal Heart Against Injury: Studies in the Chicken Embryo’. He gave a talk, received a certificate and a US$ 500 award.

The prize was one of two won by the Giussani Lab, led by Caius Fellow Professor Dino Giussani. Dino is a Director of Studies at Caius and Professor of Developmental Cardiovascular Physiology & Medicine at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience.

Skaai Davison, a second year PhD student at Churchill College won the top abstract out of circa 1,000 registrants and was invited to give a talk at the President’s New Investigator Plenary Session to the entire conference.  

Her abstract was entitled ‘Translatable Programming of Cardiovascular Reactivity in Adult Offspring in an Ovine Model of Maternal Obesity During Pregnancy’.  She received a plaque and a US$ 1000 award.

Pictured are Dave and Dino at SRI.