25 Years of endothelin research: The next generation

Noriaki Emoto, Nicolas Vignon-Zellweger, Rhéure Alves Moreira Lopes, Joseph Cacioppo, Louisane Desbiens, Danielle Kamato, Thomas Leurgans, Rebecca Moorhouse, Julia Straube, Raphael Wurm, Susi Heiden, Adviye Ergul, Masashi Yanagisawa, Matthias Barton

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Abstract

In the past three decades, endothelin and endothelin receptor antagonists have received great scientific and clinical interest, leading to the publication of more than 27,000 scientific articles since its discovery. The Thirteenth International Conference on Endothelin (ET-13) was held on September 8-11, 2013, at Tokyo Campus of the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Close to 300 scientists from 25 countries from around the world came to Tokyo to celebrate the anniversary of the discovery of the endothelin peptide discovered 25 years ago at the University of Tsukuba. This article summarizes some of the highlights of the conference, the anniversary celebration ceremony, and particularly the participation of next generation of endothelin researchers in endothelin science and the anniversary celebration. As a particular highlight, next generation endothelin researchers wrote a haiku (a traditional form of Japanese poetry originating from consisting of no more than three short verses and 27 on, or Japanese phonetic units) to describe the magic of endothelin science which they presented to the conference audience at the anniversary ceremony. The text of each haiku - both in its original language together with the English translation - is part of this article providing in an exemplary fashion how poetry can be bridged with science. Finally, we give an outlook towards the next 25 years of endothelin research.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)77-86
Number of pages10
JournalLife sciences
Volume118
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 24 2014

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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