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Programme

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08:45 Registration and refreshments Auditorium Foyer
09:10

Welcome and overview of the event

Martin Bennett: Director, BHF Cambridge Centre for Cardiovascular Research Excellence

Auditorium (all talks/ unless otherwise specified)
09:15

Distinguished guest speaker:

Marianna Fontana,  Professor of Cardiology, University College London 

Understanding mechanisms and precision treatment of amyloid cardiomyopathy
 

Session 1: New Insights from Multimodality Studies in Cardiovascular and Cardiometabolic Disease 

Chair: Sue Ozanne
09:55

Sam Lambert, Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge 

Genetic investigation of the overlap between CAD and T2D identifies discordant risks of liver fat accumulation 
10:10 

Antonio Vidal Puig, Professor of Molecular Nutrition and Metabolism, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge 

Cardiometabolic disease as a systems problem: a vision for Cambridge and beyond 

10:25

Mayank Dalakoti, PhD candidate, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge 

Cardiometabolic disease prevention from a global context 
10:40

Poster previews session 

Theme 1: Jennifer Jardine

Theme 2: Nikolai Pakhomov

Theme 3: Stefano Boriati

Theme 4: Rachael Crew

Theme 5:  Sheikh Umara Zoni

Lightning talks from selected poster presenters
10:55

Refreshments and poster session A

Dining Hall
  Session 2: Prevention, Treatment and Regeneration in Heart Failure 

Chair: Catherine Wilson 

11:30

Lay Ping Ong, AstraZeneca Research Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge 

Form and function in the regenerated rat heart 
11:45 Ana Vujic, Assistant Professor and BHF Intermediate Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge 

Exercise and cardiometabolic disease 

12:00

Robert Fletcher, PhD candidate, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge  

Hospitalised heart failure with reduced versus preserved ejection fraction in England 

12:15 

Laura Donnelly, Associate Director, Technology Development and Licensing, Cambridge Enterprise and Ash Earl, Senior Associate, Gill Jennings and Every LLP  

From ideas to impact:making the most of your IP
12:35

Bryan Williams, Chief Scientific and Medical Officer, British Heart Foundation 

 

BHF Research Strategy - Our portfolio of funding opportunities
13:00 

Lunch 

Chat to our 'Making the most of your IP' session speakers from 13:30 - 14:00

Poster session B from 13:40 - 14:15 

Dining Hall and Dining Hall Balcony

 

14.25

Rouchelle Sriranjan Rothwell, NIHR clinical lecturer in Cardiology, Department of Medicine and Nick Evans, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge

East of England Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement in cardiovascular research 

  Session 3: Small Vessel Disease and Development  Chair: Tian Zhao 
14:45

Wei Li, Research Professor and BHF Senior Basic Science Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge 

Does endoglin play a role in endothelial and adipose tissue crosstalk? 
15:00

Maria Köhne, Research Associate, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute 

 

Spatiotemporal benchmarking of endocardial sprouting and state dynamics during human coronary vessel development 

15:15

Oriane Marguet, PhD candidate, Dept Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge 

Inflammation and cerebral small vessel disease severity – insights from the INSVD study 

15:30

Refreshments

Dining Hall
 

Session 4: Inherited, acquired and Immune drivers of CVD

Chair: James Cranley 
16:00

Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Donor Health, BHF Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge 

CVRisk-it: biochemical and genetic factors in CVD
16:15 Paul Carter, Clinical Lecturer, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge 

Clonal haematopoiesis in cardiovascular disease: how the genetic driver, sex, and disease context matter 

16:30

James 0`Brien, Clinical Research Associate, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge 

The impact of modulating the adaptive immune system on the B cell repertoire in acute coronary syndromes
16:45

Distinguished guest speaker

Muredach Reilly, Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, New York 

 

Stromal cells in atherosclerosis: a genomics perspective  

17:25 Poster prizes and closing remarks  Martin Bennett
17:45 Post-event networking with drinks and nibbles. Please stay to catch up with anyone you may have missed earlier Dining Hall

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