Congratulations to the Giussani Lab, who were the recipients of two prizes at the recent international annual meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI), held in Charlotte NC, USA, March 25-29, 2025.
Skaai Davison, second year PhD Student won the top abstract out of ca. 1000 registrants, and was invited to give a talk at the President’s New Investigator Plenary Session to the entire conference. Her abstract was entitled ‘Translatable Programming of Cardiovascular Reactivity in Adult Offspring in an Ovine Model of Maternal Obesity During Pregnancy’. She received a plaque and a $US 1000 award.
Dave Duru, third year medicine undergraduate from Caius received an award for one of the top 10 scoring abstracts. His work was entitled ‘Tadalafil Therapy for Protecting the Fetal Heart Against Injury: Studies in the Chicken Embryo’. He gave a talk, received a certificate and a $US 500 award.