We know that creative solutions come from collaborative efforts. So, our series of events are designed to create a platform for learning, a place for collaboration, and a stage for sharing. In this light, we aim to unite multidisciplinary investigators across the single ventricle research space and bolster a robust scientific community.

This year, we hosted a multi-part virtual speaker series called Back to Basics: Pioneers in Cardiovascular Science that tackled diverse topics within and adjacent to the single ventricle field including Tissue Engineering and Stem Cell Biology (Fall Series), Disease Modeling in Single Ventricle (Winter Series), and Innovative and Enabling Technologies (Spring Series). Each four-week series featured outstanding investigators at the leading edge of their fields and culminated with exciting Lightning Round presentation competitions showcasing work from selected abstracts from early career investigators. In each Lightning Round session, meeting attendees voted to select two Outstanding Research Presentation Award recipients – and award winners received an award package including complimentary meeting registration, a travel award, and an oral presentation slot to present their work at the upcoming Single Ventricle Investigator Meeting on October 6-9, 2022.

These awarded abstracts highlight important topic areas across single ventricle science and cardiovascular development including early heart morphogenesis, gene and transcription regulatory networks, and tissue engineering, and bring creative tools, workflows, and test platforms to the research landscape.

We are proud to support this exceptional group of outstanding early career investigators and to highlight the important work they’re doing to advance the single ventricle field.