Excerpts from Annual Meeting in Jacksonville

by Mustafa Barbhuiya, Ph.D., and Jonathan Hoyne, Ph.D.

The 2024 ACS Annual Meeting, celebrating the 75th year of the Association, was held in Jacksonville, Florida April 2-4. The Program Committee, chaired by Jonathan B. Hoyne, Ph.D., developed an exciting agenda for attendees to both engage with outstanding clinical science and enjoy the usual camaraderie and networking for which ACS meetings are highly noted. The overall meeting theme was Tomorrow’s Diagnostics and Therapeutics Today

The Tuesday morning session theme of “Pathobiology of Neurological Disorders” began with the Abraham J. Gitlitz Honorary Lecture, presented by Dennis W. Dickson, M.D., the Robert E. Jacoby Professor for Alzheimer’s Research at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville and the winner of the 2011 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s, Alzheimer’s and Related Diseases from the American Academy of Neurology. The Tuesday afternoon program had two sessions: the first with a theme of “Transforming Transplant” and the second on “Tomorrow’s Therapy Today.” There was also a very interesting luncheon presentation by Jorge M. Mallea, M.D., also of the Mayo Clinic Florida on “Machine perfusion: A platform for organ repair and regeneration.” continued on page 09