Tuesday 23 June 2026

Time	Session/Location
7:00 - 9:00	ES-ISHR council meeting
	Lecture Theatre 1 - Teaching and Learning Building
9:00 - 10:00	Plenary session 2 Ketty Schwartz Award Lecture
10:00 - 10:30	Refreshment Break
	Lecture Theatre 1 - Teaching and Learning Building	Lecture Theatre 2 - Teaching and Learning Building	G15 - Muirhead Tower
10:30 - 12:00	Session 7 - Determinants of the Interorgan Crosstalk 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 Abstract TBC Selected Abstract TBC Session Chairs: Melanie Paillard Gabriele Schiattarella	Session 8 - From Epigenetics to Precision Targets 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 Abstract TBC Selected Abstract TBC Session Chair: Ralf Gilsbach	Session 9 - Proteostasis in Heart Failure Zhao Wang Role of protein turnover in heart failure Izhak Keha Subcellular protein translation in HF Mirko Völkers Protein translation control Selected Abstract TBC Selected Abstract TBC Session Chairs: Manuel Mayr Lucie Carier
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch and Poster Session 2
10:00 - 10:30	Refreshment Break
	Lecture Theatre 1 - Teaching and Learning Building	Lecture Theatre 2 - Teaching and Learning Building	G15 - Muirhead Tower
13:30 - 15:00	Session 10 - Scintica Sponsored Session TBD - Imaging Across Scales in Cardiovascular Research 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 Abstract TBC Selected Abstract TBC Session Chairs: TBC	Session 11 - Inter-organ Crosstalk in Cardiometabolic Diseases David Patterson Neural mediators in cardiovascular disease Alexandre Paccalet Bone marrow niche and the heart Ulrich Kintscher Adipose tissue-heart crosstalk Selected Abstract TBC Selected Abstract TBC Session Chairs: Rebecca Ritchie Alice Marino	Session 12 - Hot Topics in HFpEF Christophe Beauloye Cardiac and plasma metabolic signatures in HFpEF Francesco Paneni Epigenetics in cardiometabolic diseases Claudia Crocini Chromatin modification in HFpEF pathogenesis Selected Abstract TBC Selected Abstract TBC Session Chairs: Nazha Hamdani Simon Sedej
15:00 - 16:30	Refreshment Break and Poster Session 3
16:30 - 18:00	Session 13 - Multimodal Approaches to Explore Cardiac Diseases 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 Abstract TBC Selected Abstract TBC Session Chairs: TBC Monika Gladka	Session 14 - Vascular Integrity and Dysfunction in Heart Failure Elizabeth Jones Mural cell dysfunction contributes to diastolic heart failure Marie-Ange Renault Endothelial dysfunction in HFpEF Maike Frye - Endothelial mechanoregulation in cardiovascular disease Selected Abstract TBC Selected Abstract TBC Session Chairs: TBC Petra Kleinbongard	Session 15 - Alteration of Iron Homeostasis and Ferroptosis in Cardiac Disease Samira Lakhal-Littleton Alteration of myocardial iron homeostasis in heart failure Frank Lezoualc’h Epac1, a novel iron metabolic sensor Andreas Linkermann Ferroptosis in mitochondrial cardiomyopathy Selected Abstract TBC Selected Abstract TBC Session Chairs: Luc Bertrand Jonathan Lambert
From 19:00	Conference Gala Dinner at the Council House, Birmingham City Centre