ISHR-ES 2026, 39TH Annual Meeting of the International Society for Heart Research European Section. Monday 22 June - Thursday 25 June, University of Birmingham UK. Logos of the University of Birmingham and the International Society for Heart Research, European Section

Thursday 25 June 2025


Time Session/Location
 08:30 - 09:30 ISHR-INT Council Meeting - Room 202
08:30 - 09:30 Registration and Refreshments - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building
9:30 - 10:30                         Plenary Session 4  - Lecture Theatre 1 
ECI Awards Session

Giulio Ciucci 
Mechanical Loading Inhibits Tumor Growth in the Heart

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Jonathan Lambert
Defining metabolically dependent protein interactomes of Opa1 in cardiac mitochondria using a novel Opa1-TurboID transgenic mouse model

Ravi Kumar
Improving the physiological relevance of hIPSC-CM with human-serum mimetic culture media
10:30 - 11:00Refreshment Break - Foyers of Teaching and Learning Building 
Lecture Theatre 1 - Teaching and Learning Building
Lecture Theatre 2 - Teaching and Learning Building 
G15 - Muirhead Tower
11:00 - 12:30                                                     Session 22 - New AI and Tools to Explore Cardiac Diseases (JMCC sponsored session

Invited Speakers:

Christoph Dieterich 
How AI & bioinformatics can help in cardiovascular research


Jeff Saucerman
Logic-based machine learning to predict how drugs affect cardiomyocyte hypertrophy

Xin Zhou
Computational cardiac imaging and the UK Biobank

Selected Abstracts:

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Session Chairs:
Bianca Brundel 
Mike Coleman
Session 23 - Lipids Signalling in Cardiac Metabolism and Cardiac Failure

Invited Speakers:

Frederic Boal 
Phosphoinositides, PIKfyve, lysosomal function and cardiac metabolism

Marion Laudette
PCSK9, mitochondrial cholesterol, metabolism


Claudio Mauro
Memory of obesity in adaptive immunity

Selected Abstracts:

Xin Hu
Exogenous lactate/pyruvate
reduces the hypertrophic driver aspartate through reducing
carbohydrate oxidation and  pyruvate carboxylation in the ex vivo heart

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Session Chairs:

Federica Cuello
Yu Huang
Session 24 - Therapeutic Targeting to Enhance Cardioprotection

Invited Speakers:

Ludovic Gomez
Serine 663 phosphorylation of SERCA2 in cardiac disease

Xiaoqiu Tan
Targeting pak2 as a novel therapy for cardiac diseases


Neena Kalia 
Targeting microcirculation in cardiovascular disease

Selected Abstracts:

Ying-Chi Chao
Targeting Troponin I Phosphorylation for Precision Treatment of Diastolic Dysfunction




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Session Chairs:
Julie McMullen 
Sean Davidson
12:30 - 13:15 Plenary session 5 - Lecture Theatre 1 
ES-Awards - Poster and Young Investigator awards
13:10 - 14:30   Lunch - Foyers of Teaching and Learning  Building
From 14:30Departure

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