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EVENT: Pioneering vascular biologist Salvator Moncada, M.D., Ph.D., University College, London, will receive the Lennox K. Black International Prize for Excellence in Medicine. Dr. Moncada was instrumental in the last several decades in improving our understanding of the role of nitric oxide in the cardiovascular system. He and his colleagues helped explain in part how the cardiovascular system adapts to a heavier workload during pregnancy, and perhaps why premenopausal women are protected against heart disease.

Robert L. Barchi, M.D., Ph.D., president of Thomas Jefferson University, will present the award to Dr. Moncada during the 3rd Lennox K. Black Symposium. The Prize recognizes the importance of international communication in scientific discovery and the advance of medicine.

DATE: Thursday, October 14, 2004

TIME: 1:45 p.m.

LOCATION: Bluemle Life Sciences Building, 233 S. 10th Street, Philadelphia

BACKGROUND: The Prize is designed to bring global leaders in biomedical research to Jefferson to foster their interaction with faculty experts, and is a major contribution to Jefferson’s overall global initiative which encourages the exchange of ideas and information in medical education, research and clinical care.

The 3rd Lennox K. Black Symposium, titled Translational Aspects of Cardiovascular Regulation, will be held Thursday, October 14 and Friday, October 15, 2004 in conjunction with the award presentation. The symposium features a distinguished group of speakers who will present some of the latest basic and clinical cardiovascular research in such areas as ion channel disorders, genomics and the development of stem cell repair therapies for heart problems.