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May 31- June 3, 2025
Hilton Boston Park Plaza
Boston, Massachusetts

Submit an abstract today!  The submission deadline is January 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET. Notifications will be emailed by March 29, 2025. If you are not notified, please contact Stephen Froelich a[email protected].

Introducing our Keynote Speaker, Professor Charles N. Serhan, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Charles is the Simon Gelman Professor of Anaesthesia (Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology) at Harvard Medical School. He is Director of the Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury and Distinguished Scientist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and recently a Co-Director of the Brigham Research Institute. Charles received a BS in biochemistry from Stony Brook University followed by a Doctorate in experimental pathology and medical sciences from New York University School of Medicine. He was a visiting scientist and post-doctoral fellow at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm with Professor Bengt Samuelsson (Nobel Laurate Medicine 82). He attended the Nobel Ceremony and two of his thesis publications were cited by Samuelsson in his Nobel lecture. In 1987, he joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and in 1996 received the honorary degree from Harvard University. He’s received many awards including an NIH MERIT award (2000) and has delivered more than 50 keynote and plenary lectures.

Among these, 2008 William Harvey Outstanding Scientist Medal, AAAS Fellow 2011. Society for Leukocyte Biology-Bonazinga Award 2010, 2011 American College of Rheumatology Hench Award Lecture at ACR, and Mérieux 2013 Laureate.

He received the IUBMB Lecture Medal 2019 and the Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine 2016. 
Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 from the International Eicosanoid Research Foundation and the LifeTime award 2019 from the Soc. Leukocyte Bio.
2018 British Pharmacology Soc Sir John Gaddum International Award lecture.
2018 American Society for Investigative Pathology Rous-Whipple Award

2023 CPPA The Chemistry and Pharmacology of Drug Abuse Award for visionary work and discovery of the Pro-Resolving Mediators from Northeastern Univ. NEU Center for Drug Discovery.

2023. BWH Department Surgery J. Murry (1990 Nobel) Mentoring Award 2023 Charles has experience leading multidisciplinary research teams as PI/PD for several NIH supported Program Project Grants and a P-50 Center Grant. 2021, 2022, 2023,2024 Highly Cited Researcher from Clarivate, top 0.1% in immunology. His h-index is 192 (Nov. 2024) in google scholar >125,000 citations visit his lab video and research team, lab web page. http://serhanlab.bwh.harvard.edu/

  1. Serhan CN, et al. E-series resolvin metabolome, biosynthesis and critical role of stereochemistry of specialized pro-resolving mediators (SPMs) in inflammation-resolution: Preparing SPMs for long COVID-19, human clinical trials, and targeted precision nutrition. Semin Immunol. 2022
  2. Fredman G and Serhan CN. Specialized pro-resolving mediators in vascular inflammation and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Nature Rev Cardiology. 2024 doi: 10.1038/s41569-023-00984. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1lGu42a66PfAI/bibliography/public/ contains >624 publications (original reports and reviews) (9/1/2024); 400 Patents awarded assigned to BWH.