Monday 22 June 2026
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| 07:00 - 09:00 | ES-ISHR Council Meeting - Room 202 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration and Refreshments - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building | |||||||||||||||||||
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Young Investigator Session 1 (JMCC sponsored) - Lecture Theatre 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Refreshment Break | |||||||||||||||||||
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Young Investigator Session 2 - Lecture Theatre 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Poster Display and Lunch | |||||||||||||||||||
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Opening Ceremony - Lecture Theatre 1 Prof Adam Tickell (Vice chancellor of University of Birmingham) |
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| 14:00 - 15:00 |
Plenary Session 1 - Lecture Theatre 1 Prof Barbara Casadei (Imperial College London) |
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| Lecture Theatre 1 - Teaching and Learning Building |
Lecture Theatre 2 - Teaching and Learning Building |
G15 - Muirhead Tower |
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| 15:00 - 16:30 | Session 1 - Battle of the Metabolites: Should we focus on glucose, fats, or ketones? (JMCC sponsored) Invited Speakers: Luc Bertrand Glucose-derived metabolites in heart failure Michael Shattock Beyond Glucose: Metabolic substrate provision for a healthy heartenergetics, function and stability ex vivo Anna Zoccarato Intermediary Metabolism in Cardiac Remodelling Selected Abstracts: Eliano dos Santos PGAM2 is a critical metabolic node in heart failure progression TBC Session Chairs: Lisa Heather Lorrie Kirshenbaum |
Session 2 - Inflammation and Immunity in Cardiac Remodelling Invited Speakers: Federica Marelli-Berg T cells in cardiac health and disease Ziad Mallat Macrophages inflammasome & mitochondrial homeostasis Gustavo Ramos Immune regulation as a therapeutic approach Selected Abstracts: Jack Keane The role of tissue resident memory T cells in atrial fibrillation Ingrid Dumitriu Immune remodelling in atrial fibrillation: are alterations in inflammatory T cell subsets the missing link? Session Chairs: Ines Falcao-Pires Marinos Kallikourdis |
Session 3 - The dynamics of epi-genome/transcriptome in cardiac remodelling Invited Speakers: Sebastian Preissl Epigenetic mechanisms at single cell resolution Fabio Martelli Non-coding RNAs in ischemic cardiovascular disease Eva van Rooij Creating a repair permissive heart Selected Abstracts: TBC TBC Session Chairs: Llew Roderick Miron Sopic |
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| 16:30 - 18:00 | Refreshments and Poster Session 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 17:00 - 18:00 | IMAGINE+ networking event - Lecture Theatre 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lecture Theatre 1 - Teaching and Learning Building |
Lecture Theatre 2 - Teaching and Learning Building |
G15 - Muirhead Tower |
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| 18:00 - 19:30 |
Session 4 - AZ sponsored session - Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic diseases at crossroads
Invited Speakers: Don Bers Obese-diabetic HFpEF: Sex, EC-Coupling and Empagliflozin Elise Kesler TBC Selected Abstracts: Lukas Emanuel Schmidt Proteomic Effects of Genetic and Therapeutic PCSK9 Inhibition Milena Bellin In Vitro Modelling of Renal Injury-Induced Cardiac Dysfunction Using hiPSC-Derived Kidney Organoids and Cardiac Microtissues Session Chairs: Elie Kessler Thomas Eschenhagen |
Session 5 - Cardiac Regeneration: Lessons from development and beyond
Invited Speakers: Filipa Simoes Role of macrophages in cardiac regeneration Stephane Zaffran (De)constructing the human heart: single-cell/nucleus insights Monika Gladka Cardiac regeneration and rejuvenation mechanisms Selected Abstracts: TBC TBC Session Chairs: Sveva Bollini Mauro Giacca |
Session 6 - Preventing cancer-derived cardiotoxicity
Invited Speakers: Zoltán V. Varga Metabolic aspects of cardiac dysfunction in cancer patients Alessandra Ghigo Adjuvant cardiotherapy: SGLT2i, GLP1R agonists and beyond TBC Selected Abstracts: Giulia Guerra Hemopexin mitigates doxorubicin cardiotoxicity by preserving cardiac metabolism while maintaining antitumor efficacy in a mouse model of breast cancer TBC Session Chairs: Jolanda van der Velden Gabriele Tocchetti |
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| 19:30 - 20:30 | Drinks Reception with Nibbles - Teaching and Learning Building Foyers | |||||||||||||||||||
As part of the organisation of this conference, The University of Birmingham's Event Management Team is collecting income via registration fees and sponsorships on behalf of theInternational Society for Heart Research, European Section (ISHR-ES)