Early Career group meets for panel on Navigating the Academic Job Market. They learned insights on becoming a faculty member, starting from when they are a new postdoc through career development grant applications to becoming a new faculty member and starting your lab.
We have used technology to cross multiple timezone and to stay connected as a group.
Early career members from all group also meet regularly to present and discuss their work.
2020 started off with a productive early career call with high attendance. Nimer Ballan presented his work, which was followed by an interactive discussion of his work.
Representatives from Vanderbilt, Stanford, Japan, Italy, France, and Israel were present.
Leducq members met at the 2019 AHA Scientific Sessions in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Zeina Al-Sayed presented on her project: “Study of Drug Induced Long QT Disease Using iPSC-CMs”. Her slides are available on the Slack Early Career channel for reference.]
We had representatives from Stanford, Vanderbilt, Paris, Milan participating in the discussion.
representatives from the Stanford, Vanderbilt, Paris, and Milan groups participated in the call. Luca was the primary speaker, Zeina will speak during the October call.
notes from the meeting are available on SLACK.
The EC members discussed cell culture methods and their impact on EP readings, standardization of cell culture protocols between groups, and a potential collaborative manuscript on different methods of culturing iPSC-CMs
The first Leducq EC call happened on July 11, 2019. Christian from the Vanderbilt group presented some new data (available on SLACK) on hERG mutants. The group also discussed variances in differentiation protocols, and the perks and problems with the MEA system.
Members from Stanford, Vanderbilt, France, and Italy were on the call.
Meeting and dinner with Peter Schwartz, Luca Sala, Lia Crotti, Bjorn Knollman and Massimiliano Gnecchi on July 3, 2019 in Milan.
Members from all sites convened by phone on June 26 to discuss scientific progress, patient updates, career development goals for trainees, and other network business.
The network’s newest Member, Brett Kroncke from Vanderbilt, joined the call.
– Lia Crotti. Lecture on “Long QT Syndrome”. EHRA Meeting. Lisbon March 17-19, 2019.
– Lia Crotti. Lecture on “Drug Repurposing for Long QT Syndrome”. Bjorn Knollmann “Genome Editing of Human iPS Cells to Investigate Cardiac Ion Channel Variants” Gordon Conference on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms. Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco, Lucca March 31-April 5, 2019.
– Lia Crotti. Lecture on “Sindrome del QT Lungo: certezze e prospettive”. ARCA National Meeting. Baveno May 1-4, 2019
– Lia Crotti. Lecture on “Translating genetic data into risk profiling and therapeutic targeting”. Second translational electrophysiology symposium. UCL and Barts Heart Centre. London June 17, 2019.
– Peter J. Schwartz. Lecture on “Long QT syndrome. Toward precision medicine” ECAS 2019, Marseille, France, June 17, 2019
Leducq Network: Towards Precision Medicine with Human iPSCs for Cardiac Channelopathies 