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Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD

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A biomedical engineer researching right ventricular function and pulmonary vascular disease. #PAH #PulmonaryCirculation Opinions are mine. #Medsky

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Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD @rrvdpool.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Excited to share our newest publication in Comprehensive Physiology on: “Assessment of Pulmonary Vascular Impedance in Patients With Severe Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PulmonaryHypertension #HeartLungInteractions #PulmonaryVascularDisease
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This month we're revisiting our Practical PH - Careers in PH series. Thinking about a career in PH? Join us for this conversation on building a successful academic research career in PH 🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube open.spotify.com/episode/6yMF...
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Practical PH: Episode 3 - Careers in PH: Academic Research Career
ATS Breathe Easy · Episode
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ATS Assemblies @ats-assemblies.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We have a Pulmonary Circulation Early Career Working Group: Work In Progress Seminar webinar today! Our @ats-pc.bsky.social does some amazing things! Webinar is at 1pm ET today! Register here: shorturl.at/akjoZ
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Pulmonary Circulation Early Career Working Group: Work In Progress Seminar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webin...
McKenna Burns, PhD, from University of Colorado will present her work in progress titled, "Chronic Cold Exposure Causes Marked but Reversible Cardiac Hypertrophy." This will be an opportunity to hear ...
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🚨 New PH Tweetorial Series is live! 🚨 Kicking off the new year with PH diagnosis—featuring 📻 a podcast, 💊 a challenging case discussion, and 📄 a must-read paper. open.spotify.com/episode/1NHe... site.thoracic.org/assemblies/p... PMID: 30880632 @atsearlycareer.bsky.social @pvrinstitute.bsky.social
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Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD @rrvdpool.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Not how I wanted to start the new year with grant writing. SciENcv fails for the day.
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Jeff Hsu, MD, PhD @jeffhsumd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
AHA Scientific Sessions 2026 #AHA26 will take place November 6-9, 2026, in Chicago 💨 Want to contribute to next year’s program? Submit your session ideas for #AHA26 by tomorrow January 6 Would especially love to hear from the vascular biology community Link here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
⚠️ New Practical PH drop!! Continuing our Foundations in PH series, Dr. Kathryn del Valle and Dr. Raymond Benza have a discussion about risk stratification in PH. Available now on Apple Podcasts, YouTube and Spotify 🫁🫀 open.spotify.com/episode/0H2V...
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Practical PH: Foundations of PH - Risk Stratification
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Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD @rrvdpool.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Excited for #AHA25 to start. The ever popular 3CPR Speed Mentoring session is happening this afternoon. Later there is both an early career networking event and the 3CPR & #ReSS welcome reception. A jammed packed afternoon.
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Here are some helpful PC-links with our latest activity: 🛜🔗 What's New: site.thoracic.org/assemblies/p.... PC Webinars: site.thoracic.org/assemblies/p... Practical PH Podcasts: site.thoracic.org/assemblies/p...
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American Thoracic Society | Pulmonary Circulation
The American Thoracic Society is the world's leading medical society dedicated to accelerating the advancement of global respiratory health through…
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 03/10/2025
Among adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension who had received the diagnosis less than 1 year earlier, the addition of sotatercept to background therapy resulted in a lower risk of clinical worsening than placebo. Full HYPERION phase 3 trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/4mzuaY1
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Sotatercept for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension within the First Year 
A Research Summary based on McLaughlin VV et al. | 10.1056/NEJMoa2508170 | Published on September 30, 2025 

Visual representations of the patients in the trial and the treatments they were assigned.                       

Read the full Research Summary at NEJM.org.
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🚨 New trial alert: HYPERION🚨
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ATS Assemblies @ats-assemblies.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Troy Stevens, PhD presenting the Terry Wagner Memorial Lecture: Impact of Age on Endothelial Heterogeneity in the Pulmonary Vasculature @ats-pc.bsky.social #groverconference2025
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Prof Rausch @profrausch.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
🚨 We have 2-3 post-doc openings and an opening for a lab manager, all in soft material/tissue mechanics. 🚨 Check out www.manuelrausch.com and submit an application here: lnkd.in/e7W27XwZ. Please share with interested parties and your network. Many thanks ❤️!
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Soft Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Happy Monday! Let's start the week right with an early career highlight 🥁 Introducing Dr. Forbes:
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ATS Blue Journal @atsblueeditor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The Blue Journal thanks Alexander M. K. Rothman, BMBCh, MRCP, PhD, for his contribution to the June issue Positioning Imatinib for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: A Dose-Finding Phase 2 Study @atscommunity.bsky.social‬ #PAH 🔓Open Access www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10....
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PVRI @pvrinstitute.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
📢 Get ready to submit your abstract to PVRI 2026 Dublin — registrations & the abstract portal will open on 1 July! Stay tuned for full details on how to register and submit your abstract! pvrinstitute.org/pvri2026 #PVRI2026 #PulmonaryHypertension #GlobalScience #Congress
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Hot off the press 🔥: Check out this guideline summary on interventional strategies for children with progressive pulmonary hypertension in the June issue of Annals ATS. www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10....
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Summary for Clinicians: Clinical Practice Guideline on Interventional Strategies for Children with Progressive Pulmonary Hypertension Despite Optimal Therapy | Annals of the American Thoracic Society
Artificial Intelligence Disclaimer: No artificial intelligence tools were used in writing this manuscript
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American Thoracic Society (ATS) @atscommunity.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
⏰ Submit your proposals for ATS 2026 in Orlando! 📅 Call for input is open now through June 25. Learn more in ATS Conference News: www.atsconferencenews.org/ats-2026-int...
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ATS 2026 International Conference Call for Input Open Now - ATSConferenceNews.org
The ATS 2026 International Conference will take place May 15-20, 2026, in Orlando, but the call for input for next year’s conference has already opened! Submit your proposals for numerous Internationa...
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Missing all the networking at ATS 2025? Here is a PC Assembly early career highlight! Meet Dr. Shen:
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Maryam S. Sanjani, PhD 🫀 @maryamsanjani.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Please join our latest discussions: tle: “3D Imaging Reveals Complex Microvascular Remodeling in the Right Ventricle in Pulmonary Hypertension” Date/Time: Tues, June. 3, 2025, 12 p.m. eastern Registration Link: thoracic.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Presenter: Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 3D Imaging Reveals Complex Microvascular Remodeling in the Right Ventricle in Pulmonary Hypertension. After registering, you will receive a confirmation ema...
Dr. Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD from Stanford will present the article titled "3D Imaging Reveals Complex Microvascular Remodeling in the Right Ventricle in Pulmonary Hypertension” and discuss the topic b...
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Maryam S. Sanjani, PhD 🫀 @maryamsanjani.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Happening this Tuesday!
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ATS Assemblies @ats-assemblies.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🩺 Join us for the @ats-pc.bsky.social journal club next week! 📅 Tue, June 3, 2025, 12pm ET 🎤 Presenter: Dr. Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD Register Now! thoracic.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD @rrvdpool.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Excellent job covering #ATS2025. Thanks for your hard work!
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The PHun doesn’t stop there! Head over to the Poster Discussion on Late-Breaking Abstracts in 3009/3011 or Mini Symposium on Novel Models of Metabolism and Vascular Remodeling in 2009/2011. 👟👟
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
PC has saved some of the best sessions for last at #ATS2025 ⏰Wednesday May 21 starting at 8:15 AM PST - all in Moscone West so you don't have to miss out on anything!🙌
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Brown University Health Pulmonary Vascular Disease @brownpvd.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This afternoon’s #ATS2025 session has been wonderful! Our own #CoreyVentetuolo spoke about lessons we’ve learned about EC plasticity from our cell biopsy method. @brownmedicine.bsky.social @ats-pc.bsky.social
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Let’s update “low risk” in #PAH! Awesome presentation from @SandeepSahayMD & team: “A Refined Definition of Low Risk in Patients with PAH: Incorporating Mortality and Morbidity”
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Big things happening this morning in B26 - Oracle Park 👁️👁️ come check it out!
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Kicking things off with very encouraging data looking at survival with PAH using analyses from STELLAR and SOTERIA trials!
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Nicholas Kolaitis @nickbruin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Don’t forget this one!! Navigating Mid Career challenges from PAH luminaries.
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Good Morning and welcome to another awesome day at #ATS2025! Today is jam-packed with 🔥#PVD #PH #RV #PulmCirc sessions, so put those 👟on & get excited for all these great presentations 🎉 And don’t miss our @ats-pc.bsky.social meeting TODAY at 5p! Today’s sessions ⬇️
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Looking to the PH-uture 👀: Mapping the Chemical Shift of 20Xenon in the Red Blood Cells as a Biomarker for PH. #DrBastianDriehuys
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Patient insurance type matters in #PAH! Wonderful presentation from #DrBreanneMcCarthy: “Impact of Insurance Type in Treatment Patterns in PAH: The Pulmonary Hypertension Association Registry” @atsearlycareer.bsky.social #PennMedPH
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
We’re pretty cool here in PC 😎
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
A great talk from Dr. Paul Yu about the inspirational discovery and development process for activin ligand traps for PAH ⭐️ at this morning’s True Grit session @ats-assemblies.bsky.social @atscommunity.bsky.social
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Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD @rrvdpool.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Nice to have a bit of time to enjoy the SF city scape before the #ATS2025 morning sessions start.
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PVRI @pvrinstitute.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🎉 Join us in celebrating Sandeep Sahay — winner of the Outstanding Clinician Award at this year’s ATS! The Respiratory Health Awards recognise outstanding contributions and achievements in pulmonary disease. Huge congrats, Sandeep — so well deserved! 👏 site.thoracic.org/membership/a...
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American Thoracic Society | Outstanding Clinician Award
The American Thoracic Society is the world's leading medical society dedicated to accelerating the advancement of global respiratory health through…
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Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD @rrvdpool.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Ready for the two morning sessions from the @ats-pc.bsky.social assembly at #ATS2025. Sad I can't be in two places at once.
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ATS Assemblies @ats-assemblies.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
During #ATS2025 we are pleased to have all of our Assembly and Section Membership Meetings! May 19th @ats-pc.bsky.social Membership Meeting Moscone West Building Rm 3001/3003 5pm-7pm Pacific Time!
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Check out PC Web Committee chair Dr. Khushboo Goel presenting her work today! @atsearlycareer.bsky.social
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
ATS is off to a running start! Don’t forget to tag us in your PC content! #ats2025 @ats-assemblies.bsky.social 🤓🤩
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Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD @rrvdpool.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Starting the morning with presentations and talks about drug development, clinical trials, global registries and biobaNks in pulmonary hypertension. #ATS2025
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Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD @rrvdpool.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Excited for the start of #ATS2025 and the science that will be presented and discussed. Nice to be back in San Francisco and to visit the Ferry Building and the farmers market this morning.
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ATS Blue Journal @atsblueeditor.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The Blue Journal thanks Pietro Nardelli, PhD, for his contribution to the May issue Airway Mucus Plugs on Chest Computed Tomography Are Associated with Exacerbations in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease @atscommunity.bsky.social atsjournals.org/doi/full/10....
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PVRI @pvrinstitute.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
📢 Announcing the PVRI 2026 Scientific Organising Committee! We’re excited to introduce our fantastic team shaping the scientific programme for #PVRI2026, taking place 28–31 January 2026 in Dublin⬇️
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ATS Assemblies @ats-assemblies.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
First webinar post #ATS2025 -- June 3rd 12pm ET on "3D Imaging Reveals Complex Microvascular Remodeling in the Right Ventricle in Pulmonary Hypertension" Join us for this exciting Journal Club hosted by @ats-pc.bsky.social ! Register here: shorturl.at/Ewz9W
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 3D Imaging Reveals Complex Microvascular Remodeling in the Right Ventricle in Pulmonary Hypertension. After registering, you will receive a confirmation ema...
Dr. Edda Spiekerkoetter, MD from Stanford will present the article titled "3D Imaging Reveals Complex Microvascular Remodeling in the Right Ventricle in Pulmonary Hypertension” and discuss the topic b...
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Rebecca Vanderpool, PhD @rrvdpool.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
An excellent resource for navigating the ATS meeting.
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PVRI @pvrinstitute.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Join us for the next session in the iPVD Virtual Symposium Series, where Yassine Sassi will be discussing 'Environmental determinants and PVDs'. 🗓️ 28 May 2025 ⏰ 3PM BST Moderated by Rudolf Oliveira - register for free us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #PVD #Inflammation
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Dr Matteo Fabbri @drmatteofabbri.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Today @ishlt.bsky.social in Boston we talked about Pulmonary Hypertension. Here the main take-away from the Updates on the 7th World Symposium.
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ATS PC Assembly @ats-pc.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Panelists: Usha Raj Cristina Alvira Janet Lee Soni Pullamsetti Edda Spiekerkoetter Elizabeth Klings Micheala Aldred Julie Bastarache Moderators: Ke Yuan Larissa Shimoda Nadine Al-Naamani (2/2) @atscommunity.bsky.social @atsearlycareer.bsky.social
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