The ISC Main Event sessions will feature lectures by this year’s Feinberg, Willis, Sacco, Sherman and Stroke Council award recipients. The Edgar J. Kenton III Lecture was presented during the HEADS-UP Pre-Conference Symposium on Tuesday.
Six ISC abstract-based awards will be presented to their recipients in the concurrent abstract session in which their abstract is being presented. These ISC awards honor investigators for their stroke-related research. Abstract-based awards also provide funding opportunities for junior investigators to attend ISC.
ISC Pre-Conference Symposium
Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, MSc, MAS, MBA, MLS, FAHA
HEADS-UP: Health Equity and Actionable Disparities in Stroke: Understanding and Problem-Solving Room R06-R09 (Riverside) 10:15-10:40 a.m. | Tuesday, Feb. 3
Edgar J. Kenton III Lecture, Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, MSc, MAS, MBA, MLS, FAHA University of California | San Francisco “Stroke Disparities Research Workforce: Wherefore Art Thou” This award recognizes lifetime contributions to the investigation, management, mentorship and community service in the field of race-ethnic stroke disparities or related disciplines.
Pooja Khatri, MD, MS, FAHAOpening Main Event
Main Event, Hall D 11:37-11:52 a.m. | Wednesday, Feb. 4
William M. Feinberg Award for Excellence in Clinical Stroke Pooja Khatri, MD, MS, FAHA Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut “Clinical Trial Innovations: The Future Is Now” This award recognizes significant contributions to the investigation and management of clinical research in stroke.
Raghu Vemuganti, PhD
Thursday Main Event
Main Event, Hall D 11-11:15 a.m. | Thursday, Feb. 5 Thomas Willis Lecture Raghu Vemuganti, PhD University of Wisconsin–Madison “Role of RNAs in Ischemic Brain Damage” This award recognizes contributions to the investigation and management of stroke — basic science.
Closing Main Event
Kazunori Toyoda, MD, PhD, FAHAMain Event, Hall D 11-11:15 a.m. | Friday, Feb. 6 Ralph L. Sacco Outstanding Stroke Research Mentor Award Kazunori Toyoda, MD, PhD, FAHA National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center | Suita, Japan “One Only Half Dies” This annual award recognizes the outstanding achievements in the mentoring of future generations of researchers in the field of cerebrovascular disease.
11:15-11:30 a.m. Seemant Chaturvedi, MD, FAHADavid G. Sherman Lecture Seemant Chaturvedi, MD, FAHA University of Maryland, Baltimore “The Eternal Quest for Optimal Stroke Prevention” This award recognizes lifetime contributions to the investigation, management, mentorship and community service in the stroke field.
11:33-11:45 Stroke Council Award and Lecture Pooja Khatri, MD, MS, FAHA Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut “Improving Stroke Care: A Story of Breaking Down Silos” The Stroke Council Award and Lecture recognizes and encourages those who actively work to integrate stroke and heart disease in clinical care, education or research.
ISC abstract-based awards
Wednesday, Feb. 4 | 2:42 p.m. Digital Oral Poster Theater 5 Psychosocial and Behavioral Aspects of Stroke Moderated Digital Oral Abstract Session 1 Stroke Rehabilitation Award Amar Dhand, MD, DPhil, Boston “SocialBit: Validation of a Lightweight Machine Learning Algorithm for Measuring Social Interactions in Real-Time in Stroke Survivors With Diverse Neurological Abilities” (DP098) This award encourages investigators to undertake or continue research and/or clinical work in the field of stroke rehabilitation and submit an abstract to the International Stroke Conference.
Wednesday, Feb. 4 | 3:55 p.m. Room 206-207 Molecular and Cellular Brain Science Oral Abstracts Stroke Basic Science Award Soomin Jeong, PhD, Philadelphia “Restoring the Blood-Brain Barrier After Stroke: VCAM-Targeted MFSD2A mRNA Nanoparticle Therapy With Functional Recovery” (055) This award encourages investigators to undertake or continue stroke research in basic or translational science, and it must be laboratory-based.
Thursday, Feb. 5 | 7:30 a.m. Room 206-207 Neurointervention Oral Abstracts Robert G. Siekert New Investigator Award in Stroke Zhe Cheng, MD, PhD, Beijing “A Novel Adjuvant Strategy After Endovascular Therapy for Acute Posterior Circulation Stroke: Vertebrobasilar Artery Cooling Infusion (VACI) for Neuroprotection” (082) In recognition of Robert G. Siekert, founding chair of the American Heart Association’s International Conference on Stroke and Cerebral Circulation, this award encourages new investigators to undertake or continue stroke-related research.
Thursday, Feb. 5 | 7:40 a.m. Room 211-213 Translational Research, Therapeutic Development and Biomarkers Oral Abstracts Mordecai Y.T. Globus New Investigator Award in Stroke Daniela Renedo, MD, New Haven “Decoding the Etiology of Embolic Ischemic Stroke Through Integrated Genomic, Proteomic and Single-Cell Transcriptomic Analyse” (091) This award recognizes Dr. Mordecai Y.T. Globus’ major contributions to research in cerebrovascular disease and his outstanding contributions to the elucidation of the role of neurotransmitters in ischemia and trauma; the interactions among multiple neurotransmitters; mechanisms of hypothermic neuroprotection; and the role of oxygen radical mechanisms and nitric oxide in brain injury.
Thursday, Feb. 5 | 9:15 a.m. Room 211-213 Brain Health and Cognitive Impairment Oral Abstracts Vascular Cognitive Impairment Award Zhiyu Yan, MS, Boston “Plasma Proteomic Signatures Shared Across Cerebrovascular Diseases and Cognitive Decline” (106) This award encourages investigators to undertake or continue research or clinical work in the field of vascular cognitive impairment and submit an abstract to the International Stroke Conference.
Friday, Feb. 6 | 9:55 a.m. Room 211-213 Hemorrhagic Stroke Treatment Oral Abstracts Stroke Care in Emergency Medicine Award Sheng Zhang, PhD, Hangzhou “Prehospital Blood Pressure Lowering in Likely Intracerebral Hemorrhage Patients Is a Cost-Effective Treatment Strategy in Both U.S. and China” (150) This award encourages investigators to undertake or continue research in the emergent phase of acute stroke treatment and submit an abstract to the International Stroke Conference.
Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, MSc, MAS, MBA, MLS, FAHA
Pooja Khatri, MD, MS, FAHA
Pooja Khatri, MD, MS, FAHA
Raghu Vemuganti, PhD
Kazunori Toyoda, MD, PhD, FAHA
Seemant Chaturvedi, MD, FAHA
