Lymphatic Education
& Research Network

The 1st international virtual meeting, organized by the Hellenic Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery and the Hellenic Society for Surgery of the Hand & Upper Extremity, will be held on December 4-5, 2020.  It is free to attendees.  For more information and to register, visit http://microhand.gr/.

Join us on Wednesday, November 11, at 12 noon ET (11am CT, 10am MT, 9am PT). Presented by Guillermo Oliver, Ph.D. Dr. Oliver leads the Developmental Biology Lab at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Medicine. The Lab investigates lymphatic vasculature and the retina/forebrain.

To attend, just register on our Zoom page.

London-born Gemma Levine’s career as a photographer began in 1975, and since then she has published 20 books of photographs and shown over 60 exhibitions worldwide. Ms. Levine is best known for her striking black and white photographs of major contemporary British people. These include

Join us at this Zoom link on November 5, 2020, at 1pm ET (12pm CT, 11am MT, 10am PT) for Foundational Concepts in Lipedema with Promising Trends in Diagnosis, Wellness, and Care Using a Multidisciplinary Approach. Learn about what is new in diagnosis, treatment, and management of lipedema in

Join LE&RN on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, as we participate in a global movement to give back: #GivingTuesday.

We'll be hosting a global fundraiser on Facebook, and we hope you'll participate. No amount is too small. The goal is to get our entire community to give something so that we enter

Rafael Sanguinetti Czepielewski, currently a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis (USA), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gwendalyn Randolph, received a travel award and a poster award from LE&RN to attend the GRC Conference on Lymphatics. We asked Rafael to share his

Wenjing Xu, Ph.D., currently a postdoc at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under the supervision of Kathleen Caron, Ph.D., received a Travel Award from LE&RN to attend the 2020 Lymphatics Gordon Research Conference. We asked Wenjing to share her thoughts on that experience

Natalie Nielsen, a recently graduated Ph.D. student at UNC-Chapel Hill under the supervision of Dr. Kathleen Caron, received a Travel Award from LE&RN to attend the GRC Conference on Lymphatics. We asked Dr. Nielsen to share her thoughts on that experience with us and to tell us a bit about

Christina Karapouliou, currently a Research Fellow at University College London, UK, completed a Ph.D. at St. George’s University of London under the supervision of Dr. Pia Ostergaard and received a travel award from LE&RN to attend the GRC Conference on Lymphatics. We asked Dr. Karapouliou

A guest article by Dr. Wei F. Chen. Dr. Chen is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon serving as a clinical professor and attending plastic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic. He completed advanced microsurgical training at the world-renowned Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan and is one of