Programme at a Glance
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 - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building |
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| 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) | Session 2 - Inflammation and Immunity in Cardiac Remodelling | Session 3 - The dynamics of epi-genome/transcriptome in cardiac remodelling | |
| 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 | Session 5 - Cardiac Regeneration: lessons from development and beyond | Session 6 - Preventing cancer-derived cardiotoxicity | |
| 19:30 - 20:30 | Drinks Reception with Nibbles - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building | |||
Tuesday 23 June 2026
| Time | Session/Location | |||
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| 07:00 - 09:00 | ES-ISHR council meeting - Room 202 |
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| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registration and Refreshments - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building |
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| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Plenary session 2 - Lecture Theatre 1 Gianluigi Condorelli (Humanitas University, Italy) Ketty Schwartz Award Lecture |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | Refreshment Break - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building | |||
| Lecture Theatre 1 - Teaching and Learning Building |
Lecture Theatre 2 - Teaching and Learning Building |
G15 - Muirhead Tower |
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| 10:30 - 12:00 | Session 7 - Determinants of the Interorgan Crosstalk | Session 8 - From Epigenetics to Precision Targets | Session 9 - Proteostasis in Heart Failure | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch and Poster Session 2 | |||
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Session 10 - Scintica Sponsored Session - Imaging Across Scales in Cardiovascular Research | Session 11 - Inter-organ Crosstalk in Cardiometabolic Diseases | Session 12 - Hot Topics in HFpEF | |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Refreshment Break and Poster Session 3 | |||
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Session 13 - Multimodal Approaches to Explore Cardiac Diseases | Session 14 - Vascular Integrity and Dysfunction in Heart Failure | Session 15 - Alteration of Iron Homeostasis and Ferroptosis in Cardiac Disease | |
| From 19:00 | Conference Gala Dinner - Council House, Birmingham City Centre | |||
Wednesday 24 June 2026
| Time | Session/Location | |||
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| 08:00 - 09:00 | ISHR-INT Council Meeting - Room 202 |
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| 08:00 - 09:00 | Registration and Refreshments - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building |
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| 09:00 - 10:00 |
Plenary Session 3 - Lecture Theatre 1 Professor Mike Murphy (University of Cambridge) Keith Reimer Lecture |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 | ISHR General Assembly - Lecture Theatre 1 | |||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Refreshment Break - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building | |||
| Lecture Theatre 1 - Teaching and Learning Building |
Lecture Theatre 2 - Teaching and Learning Building |
G15 - Muirhead Tower |
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| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 16 - Pathophysiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Aging | Session 17 - Mitochondria in Cardiovascular Disease | Session 18 - The Vascular side of Heart Failure | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch and Poster Session 4 | |||
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Meet the Editors - Lecture Theatre 2 | |||
| Lecture Theatre 1 - Teaching and Learning Building |
Lecture Theatre 2 - Teaching and Learning Building |
G15 - Muirhead Tower |
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| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session 19 - Cardiovascular Impact of New Antidiabetic Drugs: Mechanisms and Clinical Translation | Session 20 - Bioengineering and Organoids in Cardiovascular Disease | Session 21 - Ca Channel Chit Chat in CM Pathophysiology | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Refreshment Break - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building | |||
Thursday 25 June 2026
| Time | Session/Location | |||
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| 08:30 - 09:30 | ISHR-INT Council Meeting - Room 202 |
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| 08:30 - 09:30 | Registration and Refreshments - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building | |||
| 09:30 - 10:30 |
Plenary Session 4 - Lecture Theatre 1 ECI Awards Session |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Refreshment Break - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building | |||
| Lecture Theatre 1 - Teaching and Learning Building |
Lecture Theatre 2 - Teaching and Learning Building |
G15 - Muirhead Tower |
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| 11:00 - 12:30 | Session 22 - New AI and Tools to Explore Cardiac Diseases (JMCC sponsored session) | Session 23 - Lipids Signalling in Cardiac Metabolism and Cardiac Failure | Session 24 - Therapeutic Targeting to Enhance Cardioprotection | |
| 12:30 - 13:15 |
Plenary session 5 - Lecture Theatre 1 ES-Awards - Poster and Young Investigator awards |
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| 13:10 - 14:30 | Lunch - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building | |||
| From 14:30 | Departure | |||
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)