The meeting will be separated into 4 topics with keynote and invited speakers.

The program with the selected speakers from abstracts is updated.

For confidentiality reasons, abstracts will not be published on the conference website.

15 June 2021 (13:25 - 18:00 Central European Time)

•  Session 1: Organoïds/iPCS
  • Sanjay Sinha (University of Cambridge, UK)
    "Cardiovascular "disease-in-a-dish"; all the right ingredients?"
  • Nathalie Gaborit (University of Nantes, FR)
    “Gaining insight into cardiac electrical disorders using human induced pluripotent stem cells ".
• Session 2: Cardiac Physiology
  • Stephan Rohr (University of Bern, CH)
    “Non-cardiomyocytes and cardiac electrical function: Passive bystanders or active participants?”
  • Katja Odening (University of Bern, CH)
    “Mechanical dysfunction in "electrical" cardiac diseases - impact for arrhythmia and risk stratification”
• Promoted talk

• • Iana Buch (Forschung für Leben - Research for Life)
    “Research for Life: Promoting dialogue between the public and biomedical researchers in Switzerland"

17 June 2021 (13:25 - 18:00 Central European Time)

• Session 3:  Gender Difference
  
  • Hester Den Ruijter (University of Utrecht, NL)
    "Sex differences in atherosclerotic mechanisms"
  • Catherine Gebhard (University of Zurich, CH)
    "Sex and Gender in Cardiovascular Medicine"
• Session 4: Vascular Signaling/Repair/Tissue Engineering
  • Paul Evans (University of Sheffield, UK)
    “Effects of shear stress on endothelial cells”
  • Priscilla Briquez (University of Chicago, US)
    "Therapeutic use of α2-antiplasmin in hemostasis and wound healing"
• Industry talk from FUJIFILM Visualsonics
  • Dieter Fuchs (Market Development and Preclinical Applications Manager)
    "New frontiers in In vivo cardiovascular imaging"