Society of Academic and Research Surgery

The following 98 abstracts were presented to the 3 rd meeting of the Society of Academic and Research Surgery in January 2003. The meeting was held at the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds and was hosted by Professor Pierre Guillou and his colleagues at the St James's University Hospital and University of Leeds. The Patey prize was won by M. C. J. Button et al. for a paper entitled ‘The enzymatic extraction of adult human venous smooth muscle cells and their incorporation into a wholly biological tissue engineered arterial bypass conduit’. Copyright © 2003 British Journal of Surgery Society Ltd. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.