PAPER OF THE WEEK! (1/4) This week鈥檚 paper by Prasad et al. explores how the complosome drives metabolic and inflammatory changes in vascular fibroblasts in pulmonary hypertension (PH)...
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- 馃摙 Attention Complement Biologists!! The abstract and travel award deadline for ICW2025 has been extended to April 14! There are many great travel awards available for Early Career Researchers! Register and find more information here 馃憠 complement.org/icw-2025 @ComplementSoc
- Congratulations to February's ECCO Scientist of the Month, Dr. Marie-Sophie Meuleman! Marie-Sophie studied for an MD in Nephrology at the Universit茅 Paris Cit茅 and a PhD in Immunology at Cordeliers Research Center in the lab of Prof. Cremer. (1/4)
- PAPER OF THE WEEK (1/4) This week's paper by Chi et al. explores C3-C3aR-mediated astrocyte-neuron communication in Parkinson鈥檚 disease (PD). They found that complement C3 colocalizes with astrocytes in the CNS, with expression regulated by TLR2 and NF-kB.
- 馃摙January鈥檚 ECCO Scientist of the Month is Dr. Lewis Watkins!馃帀 Dr. Watkins earned his PhD at Swansea University studying complement in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). He is now a postdoc at Cardiff鈥檚 Dementia Research Institute, where he studies the role of complement in dementia (1/4)
