The LABB group presented their work at the Liverpool Aortic Surgery Symposium VIII on 28th June 2019, which was attended by leading cardiothoracic surgeons from the UK and USA. Dr Jill Madine delivered a talk entitled ‘Idiopathic degenerative thoracic aneurysms are associated with increased aortic medial amyloid’. Dr Riaz Akhtar gave a talk entitled ‘Is bicuspid aortopathy associated with distinct patterns of matrix degradation?’

Congratulations to Riaz who was awarded the Best abstract presentation for scientific research in Thoracic Aortic surgery.