AVF Annual Meeting Highlights: Top Abstracts, Grants and Awards

Traveling Fellowship Updates

Juzo Traveling Fellowship recipients described visits to leading vascular malformation centers and pulmonary embolism response team programs, sharing how the awards fund early career members to learn from established investigators and build their own research focus.

Jobst Grant Research

Jobst Grant recipients presented bioimpedance measurement as a biomarker for advanced chronic venous disease and ulcer healing, preclinical factor 11 inhibition data aimed at reducing venous stent thrombosis, a wireless pressure sensor for guiding compression therapy, and a hydration protocol study before iliac vein stenting.

Translational and Basic Science Awards

A Boston Scientific Translational Grant presentation linked T helper 1 and T helper 17 cell inflammation to varicose vein progression, and the AVF announced its inaugural basic science grant, supporting research on mTOR inhibition to reduce venous endothelial leukocyte interactions.

Abstract and Case Competition Winners

The session named the top poster and oral abstract winners for the year and an IVUS case presentation symposium winner, then closed with an update on a newly funded UK platform trial designed to run multiple venous leg ulcer studies through one efficient infrastructure.