Scientific programme
Sunday 14 June - Novotel Nice Arenas
18.00 Welcome – Course Directors
18.15 Opening keynote plenary lecture - Peter Carmeliet (Leuven, BE)
Monday 15 June - European Heart House
Session I: Ischaemia and reperfusion injury
09.00 Mechanisms – Pasquale Pagliaro (Turin, IT)
09.45 Therapeutic opportunities – David Garcia-Dorado (Barcelona, SP)
10.30 Coffee break – poster area
Session II: Therapeutic angiogenesis
11.00 Basic concepts of blood vessel growth – Alessandro Fantin (London, UK)
11.45 The complexities of therapeutic translation – Ian Zachary (London, UK)
12.30 Lunch Boxes – Meet the faculty
Session III: Novel regulatory networks
13.30 Microvesicles - J Pearson (London, UK)
14.15 miRNAs – Eva van Rooij (Utrecht, NL)
15.00 Short break
Session IV: Building your career [1]
15.15 Achieving the transition to personal fellowship and group leader – Nicola Smart (Oxford, UK)
16.00 Scientific papers: the publisher’s perspective: Helen Liepman (OUP, Senior publishing editor for the ESC journals)
17.00-19.00 Poster area – discussion of odd-numbered posters, with Coffee Break
Tuesday 16 June
Session V: Inflammation and immunity in cardiovascular pathophysiology
09.00 Immune modulation of atherosclerosis: potential for future therapies – Christoph Binder (Vienna, AU)
09.45 Inflammation in heart failure: implications for treatment – Sophie Van Linthout (Berlin, DE)
10.30 Coffee Break – poster area
Session VI: Vulnerable plaque
11.00 Pathogenesis – Sarah Jane George (Bristol, UK)
11.45 Imaging – Constantin von Zur Mühlen (Freiburg, GE)
12.30 Lunch Boxes – Meet the faculty
Session VII: Leukocyte traffic
13.30 Molecular pathways regulating adhesion and migration – Barbara Walzog (Munich, GE)
14.15 In vivo tracking of leukocyte behaviour – Abigail Woodfin (London, UK)
15.00 Short break
Session VIII: How and why pharma and academia collaborate to develop new medicines
15.15 Nicholas Alp (ICON, Marlow, UK)
15.45 Andrew Zalewski (GSK, Philadelphia, US)
16.15-18.00 Personal discussions with industry representatives
16.15-18.00 Coffee Break – poster area – Meet the faculty
Wednesday 17 June
Session IX: Cardiac contractile dysfunction
09.00 Remodelling the failing heart: the biology and future treatment options - Jean-Luc Balligand (Leuven, BE)
09.45 Atrial Fibrillation: current and future treatment options – Samuel Sossala (Göttingen, GE)
10.30 Coffee Break – poster area
Session X: Inherited heart conditions
11.00 Channelopathies: the biology and future treatment options –Eric Schulze-Bahr (Münster, GE)
11.45 Cardiomyopathies: the biology and future treatment options –Jolanda van der Velden (Amsterdam, NL)
12.30 Lunch Boxes – Meet the faculty
Session XI: Cardiovascular regenerative medicine
13.30 Heart development: implications for regeneration – Nicola Smart (Oxford, UK)
14.15 Engineering the solution – Thomas Eschenhagen (Hamburg, GE)
15.00 Short break
Session XII: Building your career [2]
15.15 Open session to question panel members and faculty about any aspect of building your career
Panel: Jeremy Pearson (chair); Samuel Sossala; Nicola Smart; Sarah George; Jolanda van der Welden; David Garcia-Dorado
17.00-19.00 Poster area – discussion of even-numbered posters, with Coffee Break
20.30 Participants dinner
Thursday 18 June
Session XIII: Converting medical innovation into clinical practice
09.00 Short presentations highlighting strategies, plus case studies to highlight the critical steps in the process
Jeremy Pearson / Andrew Zalewski / David Garcia-Dorado
10.00 Coffee Break
Session XIV: Stargazing: the implications of universal whole genome sequencing
10.30 Making sense of big data – Tim Frayling (Exeter, UK)
11.15 Personalized medicine – Thomas Eschenhagen (Hamburg, GE)
12.00 Closing keynote plenary lecture Peter Libby (Boston, US)
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