These annual awards are given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of pulmonary hypertension. They celebrate notable achievements made by special individuals across the world. The PVRI Lifetime Achievement Award 2025, the PVRI Achievement Awards 2025 and the PVRI Special Recognition Award will be presented at PVRI 2026 Dublin.

We’re excited to announce the relaunch of the PVRI Digital Webinar Series, beginning September 2025. This free monthly series, open to all, brings together the global PH community for keynote presentations, rich discussion, and the opportunity to learn cutting-edge new research.

This PH Awareness Month, we’re inviting you to join the global PVRI community for our very first Breath Beyond Borders challenge. Throughout November, PVRI members and friends around the world will be taking on personal challenges — walking, running, cycling, speed skating, or even playing the piano — to shine a light on PH research and innovation, and raise funds for PVRI along the way.

Our Pulmonary Hypertension Global Patient Survey (PHGPS), the largest survey to date to explore the perspectives of patients with PH at a global scale, has released initial findings from its adult cohort of 3,329 patients living with PH.  

We’re thrilled to announce a new chapter in the leadership of PVRI’s Innovative Drug Discovery Initiative (IDDI). We warmly welcome industry reps, Gil Golden (UTC) and Sidra Hoffman (Gossamer Bio), to the IDDI Leadership Team. They’ll be joining Sandeep Sahay and Luke Howard, who remain on as IDDI Leaders. 

Your feedback is needed on our work groups and subject areas...We’re reviewing some of our IDDI Workstream activity, and we need you to help us shape the future agenda.

We’re pleased to share that the Pulmonary Hypertension Global Patient Survey (PHGPS) - a key project of the IDDI Patient Engagement & Empowerment (PE&E) Workstream - is now a stand-alone Task Force. 

The PVRI 2025 Annual Congress was hosted in the vibrant city of Rio de Janeiro at the Windsor Convention & Expo Centre. Esteemed experts, healthcare professionals, and researchers from around the globe gathered in this iconic city to share groundbreaking insights, foster collaborations, and advance our collective mission towards conquering PVD. 

Rubin Tuder, a trailblazer in the field of pulmonary vascular biology and a driving force in PH research, has been honoured with the PVRI Lifetime Achievement Award for 2025. This prestigious Award is given annually at the PVRI Annual Congress to a senior PH investigator or clinician for their exceptional and outstanding contributions to the field of pulmonary vascular disease and to PVRI. This recognition celebrates his unparalleled contributions to science, mentorship, and the global PH community. 

The Burke Advanced Fellowship in Pulmonary Heart Disease at The Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School—invites applications for an advanced fellowship in pulmonary heart disease starting July 1, 2026. This training program is sponsored by the Center for Pulmonary Heart Disease at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The position offers an intensive clinical experience including evaluation and management of both inpatients and outpatients with pulmonary vascular disease and right heart dysfunction or failure. In addition, applicants are strongly encouraged to participate in a translational or clinical research program.