North American Vascular Biology Organisation

The North American Vascular Biology Organisation (NAVBO) is a scientific society promoting knowledge exchange in the area of vascular biology. NAVBO organises several international scientific meetings annually which broadly cover the areas of development of blood and lymphatic vasculature, cardiovascular and lymphatic disease, vascular matrix biology and vascular bioengineering.

History 
The North American Vascular Biology Organisation was founded in 1994 as a non-profit scientific organisation with voluntary membership.

Membership 
NAVBO is open to those with an interest in the subject of vascular biology who wish to engage with members to promote the study and dissemination of scientific information relevant to vascular biology, and who meets the criteria established by the Council, which is elected by the Membership.

Awards and honours 
The society administers offers travel awards to trainee members and three annual awards to independent vascular biology investigators, the Springer Junior Investigator Award for a junior researcher who will outstanding work for presentation at a NAVBO meeting that year, the Judah Folkman Award in Vascular Biology for a mid-career researcher who has made significant contributions to vascular biology research, and the Earl P. Benditt Award for an established researcher who has contributed seminal work to vascular biology research.

Springer Junior Investigator Award

 2011 - Carlos Fernandez-Hernando, New York University, USA
 2012 - Lorin E. Olson, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, USA
 2013 - Hyung J. Chun,Yale University, USA 
 2014 - Jason E. Fish, University of Toronto, USA
 2015 - Daniel Greif, Yale University, USA
 2016 - Stefania Nicoli, Yale University, USA
 2017 - Babak Razani, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
 2018 - Yi Fan, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Judah Folkman Award

 2009 - Luisa Iruela-Arispe, UCLA, USA
 2010 - Brant Weinstein, NICHD/NIH, USA
 2011 - Holger Gerhardt, Cancer Research UK, United Kingdom
 2012 - Cam Patterson, UNC, USA
 2013 - Mark Kahn, University of Pennsylvania, USA
 2014 - Tatiana Byzova, Cleveland Clinic, USA
 2015 - Mukesh Jain, Case Western Reserve University, USA
 2016 - Gabriele Bergers, University of Leuven, Belgium
 2017 - Guillermo García-Cardeña, Harvard Medical School
 2018 - Christiana Ruhrberg, UCL, United Kingdom
 2019 - Anne Eichmann, Yale University, USA

Earl P. Benditt Award

 1999 - Morris Karnovsky
 2000 - Judah Folkman
 2001 - Stephen Schwartz
 2002 - Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr.
 2003 - Mark H. Ginsberg
 2004 - Peter Carmeliet
 2005 - Thomas Maciag
 2006 - Salvador Moncada
 2007 - Harold F. Dvorak
 2008 - Shaun R. Coughlin
 2009 - A. Jake Lusis
 2010 - Richard O. Hynes
 2011 - Kari Alitalo
 2012 - Bradford C. Berk
 2013 - Michael Klagsbrun
 2014 - Jordan S. Pober
 2015 - Eli Keshet
 2016 - Elisabetta Dejana
 2017 - Peter Libby
 2018 - Rakesh Jain
 2019 - Bill Sessa

References 

Category:Scientific organizations based in the United States