Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Circulatory and Respiratory Health

The GENESIS ICE Team (Gender and Sex Determinants of Cardiovascular Disease: From Bench to Beyond, Inter-disciplinary Capacity Enhancement Team) was created to respond to the need to study the differences in men and women of cardiovascular disease (CVD). This ICE Team was awarded by 'Gender and Sex Determinants of Circulatory and Respiratory Diseases: Interdisciplinary Enhancement Teams Grant Program', Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada for 5 years. This multidisciplinary pan Canadian network has been holding their annual conference in Montréal, Québec for the past 5 years. The main objective of their annual conference is to build capacity to study the differences in CVD between men and women. A way of achieving this goal is to provide the co-investigators and collaborators with the opportunity to meet annually. In the form of a conference, the investigators of all disciplines, will review scientific papers and present their data. There will also be a poster session in many areas of cardiovascular disease relating to the causes, mechanisms, prevention, diagnosis, outcomes and treatment of cardiovascular disease derived by the initial 5 projects of the GENESIS ICE Team. This annual conference also provides the GENESIS Scholars with an opportunity to receive important feedback on their work-in-progress from more senior investigators in their respective discipline. Breakout sessions provide individual groups with the same interests to reflect on new research ideas for future projects and to provide momentum for future collaborative endeavours, including grant applications, publications, and knowledge translation initiatives.