Cambridge Cardiovascular BHF CRE annual research symposium - programme and call for abstracts
Our next members' 1-day event featuring talks from Cambridge Cardiovascular researchers, poster competition and an invited external speaker will be held at the Moller Centre on 20 April 2023.
Please REGISTER to attend if you plan to join us as this is a ticket only event.
Posters
Poster abstracts will be made available to participants closer to the event.
Programme
| 08:45 | Registration, Refreshments | |
| 09:15 | Welcome and Overview of Event: Martin Bennett | |
Session 1: Population and Data Science | Chairs John Danesh, Angela Wood | |
| 09:20 | Dr Genevieve Cezard, Department of Public Health and Primary Care | The impact of vaccination on the association of Covid-19 diagnosis with cardiovascular diseases |
| 09:35 | Dr Carles Foguet, Department of Public Health and Primary Care | Genetically personalised organ-specific metabolic models: A new tool to characterise how genetic variants condition metabolic phenotypes |
| 09:50 | Dr Lisa Pennells, Department of Public Health and Primary Care | SCORE2-Diabetes: new calibrated models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in individuals with type 2 diabetes in Europe |
| 10:05 | Dr Spencer Keene, Department of Public Health and Primary Care | The long-term risk of stroke and cardiovascular disease in patients after coronavirus infection compared with influenza/pneumonia |
| 10:20 | Wrap-up / questions | |
| Session 2: Functional Genomics | Chairs: Hugh Markus, Eric Harshfield | |
| 10:25 | Prof Nicole Soranzo, Wellcome Sanger Institute | Endothelial cell and other large-scale single cell RNA analyses |
| 10:40 | Mr Bernard Cho, Department of Clinical Neurosciences | Association of Vascular Risk Factors and Genetic Factors with Penetrance of Variants Causing Monogenic Stroke |
| 10:55 | Dr Stefan Graf, Department of Medicine | Dysregulated molecular networks of rare vasculopathies |
| 11:10 | Wrap-up / questions | |
| 11:15 | Refreshments | |
| Session 3: Cardiovascular medicine | Chairs; Ziad Mallat, Helle Jorgensen | |
| 11:40 | Dr Emma Yu, Department of Medicine | Mitochondrial regulation of atherosclerosis |
| 11:55 | Mr Semih Bayraktar, Department of Medicine | High resolution single cell analysis of the developing human heart and the great vessels |
| 12:10 | Dr Meritxell Nus, Department of Medicine | Marginal Zone B cell - T follicular helper cell interactions protect from atherosclerosis |
| 12:25 | Dr Xuan Li, Department of Medicine | Regulation of microtubule function in ischaemic heart failure |
| 12:40 | Wrap-up / questions | |
| 12:45 | Lunch and poster session | |
| Session 4: Cardiometabolic medicine | Chairs: Wei Li; Rachael Crewe | |
| 14:15 | Prof Toni Vidal Puig, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science | Lipid metabolism in macrophages and cardiometabolic risk |
| 14:30 | Prof Roger Foo, Genome Institute of Singapore | Target discovery through cardiac epigenetics |
| 14:45 | Dr Albert Koulman, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science | Quantitative lipidomics, yielding biomarkers for lifestyle nutrition and disease risk |
| 15:00 | Dr Ana Vujic, Department of Medicine | Interference with mitochondrial RET-ROS generation results in metabolic changes and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) |
| 15:15 | Wrap-up / questions | |
| Session 5: Translation | Chairs: Ian Wilkinson, Emma Hodson | |
| 15:20 | Dr Kevin Woollard, AstraZeneca | Target discovery and development for cardio renal diseases |
| 15:35 | Dr Rouchelle Sriranjan, Department of Medicine | Immune modulation in ACS: The IVORY trial |
| 15:50 | Dr Andrej Corovic, Department of Medicine | Somatostatin receptor PET/MR imaging of inflammation post-myocardial infarction |
| 16:05 | Dr Robin Brown, Department of Clinical Neurosciences | Central and peripheral inflammation in cerebral small vessel disease |
| 16:20 | Wrap-up / questions | |
| 16:25 | Refreshments | |
Distinguished Lecturer | ||
| 16:50 | Prof Borja Ibanez, National Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Madrid | Mitochondria-targeted therapies for anthracycline cardiotoxicity |
| 17:35 | Closing remarks and poster prizes | |
| 17:40 | Drinks reception and further networking |
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