Tuesday 23 June 2026
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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 Invited Speakers: Carolina Greco Circadian mechanisms Roger Foo Cardiovascular, Kidney, Liver, and Metabolic Interactions in Heart Failure: Breaking Down Silos Genevieve Derumeaux Aging at the Crossroads of Organ Interactions: Implications for the Heart Selected Abstracts: Abbie Hayes Renal dysfunction induces early atrial electrophysiological remodelling independent of hypertension and ventricular structural disease: partial reversal by SGLT2 inhibition TBC Session Chairs: Melanie Paillard Gabriele Schiattarella |
Session 8 - From Epigenetics to Precision Targets Invited Speakers: Nadia Mercader Paternal cardiac lesion induces cardiac metabolic adaptation in offspring Susana P Pereira Maternal Programming of Offspring Cardiovascular Function Llew Roderick Epigenetics in heart failure Selected Abstracts: TBC TBC Session Chair: Ralf Gilsbach |
Session 9 - Proteostasis in Heart Failure Invited Speakers: Zhao Wang Role of protein turnover in heart failure Izhak Keha Subcellular protein translation in HF Mirko Völkers Protein translation control Selected Abstracts: Maya Noureddine Mechanistic insights into an α-actinin-2 variant: Linking functional impairment to biophysical alterations in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy TBC Session Chairs: Manuel Mayr Lucie Carier |
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| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch and Poster Session 2 | |||
| Lecture Theatre 1 - Teaching and Learning Building |
Lecture Theatre 2 - Teaching and Learning Building |
G15 - Muirhead Tower |
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| 13:30 - 15:00 |
Session 10 - Scintica Sponsored Session TBD - Imaging Across Scales in Cardiovascular Research Invited Speakers: Mona Malek Mohammadi New frontiers in cardiac regeneration Juma el-Awaisi TBC Richard Southworth Development and application of novel imaging tools capable of non-invasive detection of tissue hypoxia and mitochondrial injury Selected Abstracts: Jake Burke L-type calcium channel regulation by β2AR in a co-culture model of innervated cardiomyocytes Selected Abstract TBC Sasha Forbes Cardiac regenerative cell therapy: An integrative optical approach to investigate early electrical coupling in an isolated rabbit heart Session Chairs: TBC |
Session 11 - Inter-organ Crosstalk in Cardiometabolic Diseases Invited Speakers: David Patterson Neural mediators in cardiovascular disease Alexandre Paccalet Bone marrow niche and the heart Ulrich Kintscher Adipose tissue-heart crosstalk Selected Abstracts: TBC TBC Session Chairs: Rebecca Ritchie Alice Marino |
Session 12 - Hot Topics in HFpEF Invited Speakers: Christophe Beauloye Cardiac and plasma metabolic signatures in HFpEF Francesco Paneni Epigenetics in cardiometabolic diseases Claudia Crocini Fibrosis in HFpEF pathogenesis Selected Abstracts: Bernadin Ndongson Dongmo Gene therapy with Phosphodiesterase 2A overexpression prevents atrial fibrillation and conduction dysfunction independently of diastolic dysfunction in a mouse HFpEF model TBC Session Chairs: Nazha Hamdani Simon Sedej |
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| 15:00 - 16:30 | Refreshment Break and Poster Session 3 | |||
| 16:30 - 18:00 |
Session 13 - Multimodal Approaches to Explore Cardiac Diseases Invited Speakers: Ming Lei Targetting Pak-1 as a new therapy for cardiac disease Alicia Lundby Unraveling cardiac arrhythmias through proteomics Javier Barallobre-Barreiro Omics to decipher molecular heterogeneity in HF Selected Abstracts: TBC TBC Session Chairs: Yoshihiko Saito Monika Gladka |
Session 14 - Vascular Integrity and Dysfunction in Heart Failure Invited Speakers: Elizabeth Jones Mural cell dysfunction contributes to diastolic heart failure Marie-Ange Renault Endothelial dysfunction in HFpEF TBC Selected Abstracts: Jialu Li Endothelial heparan sulphate deficiency impairs cardiac function and post–ischemia–reperfusion recovery TBC Session Chairs: Asif Iqbal Petra Kleinbongard |
Session 15 - Alteration of Iron Homeostasis and Ferroptosis in Cardiac Disease Invited Speakers: Samira Lakhal-Littleton Alteration of myocardial iron homeostasis in heart failure Frank Lezoualc’h Epac1, a novel iron metabolic sensor TBC Selected Abstracts: Ilias Simon Impaired lysosomal iron supply to mitochondria drives cardiomyocyte senescence in the aging heart TBC Session Chairs: Luc Bertrand Jonathan Lambert |
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| From 19:00 | Conference Gala Dinner - Council House, Birmingham City Centre | |||
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