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Programme

08:45 Registration and refreshments Robinson College, Grange Rd, Cambridge CB3 9AN
09:10

Welcome and overview of the event

Prof Martin BennettDirector, British Heart Foundation Cambridge Centre for Cardiovascular Research Excellence

 
09:15

International guest speaker

Prof Marc DeweyHeisenberg Prof of Radiology, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Quantitative cardiovascular imaging
 

Session 1: New insights from multimodality studies in cardiovascular and cardiometabolic disease

Chair: Dr Sam Lambert
09:50

Dr Scott Ritchie: BHF CRE Career Development Fellow, Cambridge Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit 

Enhancing 10-year cardiovascular disease prediction in healthy adults using metabolomic biomarker and polygenic risk scores
10:05

Zihan Sun: PhD student, Cambridge University Dept Clinical Neurosciences. 

Proteins involved in endothelial function and inflammation are implicated in cerebral small vessel disease

10:20

Dr Vincent Knight-Schrijver: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute

Bioinformatics and machine learning for large-scale sequencing of human stem cells
10:35

 

Poster previews session 

Lightening talks from selected poster presenters

 

Campbell Wolford (UoC Dept Public Health and Primary Care)

Matthew Batty (UoC Dept Medicine)

Dr Lay Ping Ong (UoC Dept Pharmacology)

Ankur Saini (UoC Dept Medicine)

Rui Li (UoC Dept Clinical Neurosciences)

10:50

Refreshments

Poster session opens
  Session 2: Preventing ageing and promoting regeneration

Chair: Dr Richard Tyser

11:20

Dr Catherine Wilson: Associate Professor, Cambridge University Dept Pharmacology 

Regenerating the damaged heart
11:35

Dr Jordan Lambert: BHF CRE Career Development Fellow, Cambridge University Dept Medicine 

Cell-ECM interaction in the vasculature 

11:50

Dr Tian Zhao: BHF Intermediate Fellow, Cambridge University 

 

Effect of IL-2 on T cells and beyond

12:05

Discussion groups

These sessions run in parallel, please choose one

Group 1: Emerging technologies. Facilitated by Adam Butterworth  (UoC Dept Public Health and Primary Care) and Dirk Paul (AstraZeneca)

Group 2: University-industry interaction. Facilitated by  Ben Challis (AstraZeneca) and Spoorthy Kulkarni, (UoC Dept Medicine/ Addenbrooke’s Hospital)

Group 3: Create impact from your research - potentially through commercialisation. Facilitated by Nick Morrell (Interact Bio Ltd and UoC), Jason Mellad (OtoImmune) and Anita Petiot (UoC Office for Translational Research)

12:55

Lunch

Poster session continues
14:25 Report-back on pre-lunch discussion sessions  
  Session 3: Environmental and pregnancy effects on cardiovascular health Chair: Dr Ana Vujic
14:50

Dr Kim van Daalen: BHF CRE Career Development Fellow, Cambridge Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit 

A slow and silent killer: environmental arsenic pollution and adverse cardiovascular outcomes
15:05

Dr Carmel McEniery: Principal Investigator, POPPY studyCambridge University Dept Medicine

Dr Henry Lugobe, Lecturer at Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda and PhD student, Cambridge University Dept Medicine

Risks from placental complications in Pregnancy: A UK – Ugandan Collaboration
15:20

Anna Cochrane: PhD student, Cambridge University Dept Physiology, Development and Neuroscience 

Mechanisms of increased cardiovascular risk in offspring of obese women
15:35

Refreshments

 
 

Session 4: New approaches in screening and early detection of cardiovascular disease

Chair: Dr Smriti Agarwal
16:05

Dr Will Watson: Clinical Lecturer in Cardiology, Cambridge University and Royal Papworth Hospital 

Novel approaches to cardiac magnetic resonance and metabolism
16:20

Dr Benn Jessney: Clinical Research Associate, Cambridge University Dept Medicine

AI-based analysis of intracoronary optical coherence tomography
16:35

Dr Lois Kim: BHF CRE Career Development Fellow, Cambridge Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit 

Simulation modelling for cardiovascular disease detection and prevention policy
16:50

Distinguished guest speaker

Prof Declan O'Regan

Professor of Cardiovascular AI, Institute of Clinical Sciences - Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London

AI in cardiac imaging-genetics

17:35 Poster prizes and closing remarks  Prof Martin Bennett
17:45 Post-event networking  All are most welcome to stay for drinks and nibbles