Baltimore, MD: Dr. Brian Hagen, a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. W. Jonathan Lederer's laboratory, has been awarded an international travel grant from The Physiological Society based in London, England. Dr. Hagen, who is studying calcium signaling in the heart, will be attending two international meetings. The first is the Joint Meeting of The Physiology Society, The Slovakian Physiological Society and the Federation of European Physiological Societies being held September 11-14 in Bratislava, Slovakia. Dr. Hagen has been selected to give an oral presentation there and at the International Workshop of Molecular Physiology of Membrane Transport and Cellular Signalling organized by The Physiological Society to be held September 19-23 in Yaremche, Ukraine. The title for both talks is Arrhythmogenic Ca²⁺ waves in ventricular myocytes initiated by local activation of Ca²⁺ release channels. Dr. Hagen is the first postdoctoral fellow from the Medical Biotechnology Center to win such an award and the first to be selected to give oral presentations at two of Europe's most prestigious scientific meetings.

Written by Pamela Wright

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