Registration - Day 2 & Breakfast

High Cardiac Fatty Acid Oxidation Rates Decrease Cardiac Efficiency in Heart Failure

Gary Lopaschuk, PhD, University of Alberta

Senescence Cardiomyopathy

Junichi Sadoshima, MD, PhD, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Cardiac cell Therapy: Cumulative Evidence and Emerging Approaches

Buddhadeb Dawn, MD, University of Nevada

Homocysteine and Related Compounds in Translational and Clinical Cardiovascular Research

Dragan M. Djuric, MD, MS, PhD, University of Belgrade

Coffee Break / Exhibitor Hall

Endothelial Senescence: Mechanisms, Consequences and Potential Therapeutics

Lisa Lesniewski, PhD, University of Utah

Epigenetic and Chromatin Regulation of Aging in Mammalian Stem Cells

Weiwei Dang, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Targeting the Circadian Clock in Disease and Aging

Zheng Chen, PhD, UTHealth

Treatment of Aging

Ronald DePinho, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Coffee Break / Exhibitor Hall

The Promise of RNA Therapeutics for Cardiovascular Diseases

John P. Cooke, MD, PhD, Houston Methodist Hospital

Update on Development of Genetically Identified Targets for the Treatment of Lipids and Atherosclerosis

Christie Ballantyne, MD, Baylor College of Medicine

Gene Editing for Lipid and Vascular Diseases

William Lagor, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Integrins as Therapeutic Targets in Cardiovascular Disease

Darren Woodside, PhD, The Texas Heart Institute

Lunch / Exhibitor Hall

Cell Therapy for Heart Failure

Roberto Bolli, MD, DSc (Hon), University of Louisville

Drawing the Roadmap for Forced Cell Cycle Induction in Cardiomyocytes

Tamer Mahmoud Abdelfattah Mohamed, PhD, MSc, Baylor College of Medicine

Mechanisms of Action Underlying Therapeutic Effects of Cell-based Therapy

Joshua M. Hare, MD, FACC, FAHA

The Role of Endoglin in Cardiac Regeneration

Jop van Berlo, MD, PhD, University of Minnesota

Lunch / Exhibitor Hall

Mechanistic Insights of RNA Toxicity and Disrupted RNA Processing from Modeling Myotonic Dystrophy in Mice

Thomas Cooper, MD, Baylor College of Medicine

The Role of the KDM5 Family of Histone Demethylases in the Heart

Priyatansh Gurha, PhD, UTHealth

Short-chain Fatty Acids in the Gut-heart Axis: Writing the Histone Code

Maha Abdeltalif, MD, PhD, Rutgers Health, New Jersey Medical School

Chromatin Structure and Regulation of Genes Expression

Kyle Eagen, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Coffee Break / Exhibitor Hall

The Rise in Non-Atherosclerotic Vascular Conditions: Time to Consider FMD & SCAD

Stephanie Coulter, MD, The Texas Heart Institute

Adverse Effects of Shift Work on Cardiovascular Health During Pregnancy and Fetal Development

Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin, PhD, University of Manitoba

Women’s Heart Health: The Canary in the Coalmine of Women’s Health

Colleen Norris, PhD, MSc, BScN, RN, GNP, University of Alberta

The Role of Paracardial Adipose Tissue in Age-Associated Cardiac Diastolic Dysfunction

Wanling Xuan, PhD, USFHealth

Coffee Break / Exhibitor Hall

Mitochondrial Quality Control in the Heart

Åsa Gustafsson, PhD, University of California - San Diego

The ANT Family Contributes to mPTP-Dependent Necrosis I/R Injury

Jason M. Karch, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Innate Signaling Pathways in Doxorubicin Cardiomyopathy

Lorrie Kirshenbaum, PhD, OM, University of Manitoba

Circadian Control of Cardiac Physiology & Pathophysiology

Martin E. Young, PhD, DPhil, UAB

Development and Regulation of Cardiac Dyads

William Pu, MD, Boston Children’s Hospital

Inflammatory Signaling and Atrial Arrhythmogenesis

Na Li, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

RYR2 Mutations and CPVT

Martin Morad, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina

To Beat or Not to Beat: A Hippo in the Sinoatrial Node

Jun Wang, PhD, UTHealth

Poster Viewing/Competition for Awards

Cooley Building Foyer - Level 1

Morris Karmazyn Best Poster Award

(Winners will be announced on Saturday’s Gala Night)

Margaret Moffat Awards for Best Poster

(Winners will be announced on Saturday’s Gala Night)

Judges: Leila Rouhi, MD, PhD, Chair
Manisha Deogharia, PhD,
Kedrin Baskin, PhD,
Martin Young, PhD,
Devendra K. Agrawal, PhD,
Jun-ichi Abe, MD, PhD

Reception and Dinner Buffet

Ansary Atrium - Cooley Building

Registration - Day 3 & Breakfast

Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Fibrosis

Nikolaos G. Frangogiannis, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Residual Cardiovascular Risk Post Weight Loss – Is There Room for Improvement

Philipp E. Scherer, PhD, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy: Do The Benefits Outnumber Risks

Sanjiv Dhingra, PhD, University of Manitoba

Chromatin as a biomechanical sensor

Thomas Vondriska, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles

Coffee Break / Exhibitor Hall

Genetic and Molecular Triggers of Acute Aortic Dissections

Dianna M. Milewicz, MD, PhD, UTHealth

Aortic Disease Progression: Shifting from Compensatory Aneurysm to Decompensated Dissection

Ying H. Shen, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Exercise Mimicking Therapeutic Targets for Peripheral Arterial Disease

Vihang A. Narkar, PhD, UTHealth

Novel Strategies to Reduce Plaque Burden & Enhance Plaque Stability in Carotid Artery

Devendra K. Agrawal, PhD, Western University of Health Sciences

Coffee Break / Exhibitor Hall

Spurious Transcript Accumulation: A Conserved Mechanism in Heart Failure

Jiang Chang, PhD, Texas A&M University

Targeting Scleraxis to Attenuate Cardiac Fibrosis and Heart Failure

Michael Czubryt, PhD, University of Manitoba

Development of Perivascular Fibrosis After Myocardial Injury

Reza Ardehali, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Cell-specific roles for RAGE in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury

Ravichandran Ramasamy, Ph.D. NYU Langone

Lunch / Exhibitor Hall

Circadian Regulation of Cardiac Remodeling

Lilei Zhang, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine

Interoceptive Inhibition of ADAMTS1 by Exercise-exosome for Attenuation HFrEF

Suresh C. Tyagi, PhD, University of Louisville

Reframing Cardiovascular Bioengineering: Innovative Solutions for End-Stage Heart Failure

Camila Hochman-Mendez, PhD, The Texas Heart Institute

Cardioprotective Signaling in Cancer Chemotherapy

Rakesh C. Kukreja, Ph.D, Virgnia Commonwealth Universit

Lunch / Exhibitor Hall

Cardiac Imaging in the Evaluation of HFpEF Patients

Sherif Nagueh, MD, Houston Methodist Hospital

GLP-1agonists and Heart Failure: is it all about the weight loss?

Anita Deswal, MD, MPH, MBBS, MD Anderson Cancer Center

The Remarkable Story of SGLT2 Inhibitors for Heart Failure

Mark Drazner, MD, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Myocardial Remission: The Audacity of Hope

Douglas L. Mann, MD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Lunch / Exhibitor Hall

Lecture 1: To Be Determined

Neal S. Kleiman, MD, Houston Methodist Hospital

Lecture 2: To Be Determined

TBD

Development Updates for a Pediatric Left Ventricular Assist Device with Miniature Maglev System

Yaxin Wang, PhD, The Texas Heart Institute

Impact of Cardiogenic Shock on Plasma Lipidome

Amir Ravandi MD, PhD, University of Manitoba

Coffee Break / Exhibitor Hall

Role of Histone Lysine Demethylase KDM5A in LMNA-Associated Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Manisha Deogharia, PhD, UTHealth

Generation of Chamber-Specific Cardiomyocytes: A Safe and Effective Strategy to Address Arrhythmia in Cell-Based Therapy

Arash Pezhouman, MD, Baylor College of Medicine

Targeting Glutamine Metabolism in the Pathogenesis of HF

Andrew A. Gibb, PhD, University of Louisville

TBD

TBD

Coffee Break / Exhibitor Hall

Lecture 1: To Be Determined

Speaker: Graduate student to be chosen from the abstracts submitted

Lecture 2: To Be Determined

Speaker: Graduate student to be chosen from the abstracts submitted

Lecture 3: To Be Determined

Speaker: Graduate student to be chosen from the abstracts submitted

Lecture 4: To Be Determined

Speaker: Graduate student to be chosen from the abstracts submitted

Coffee Break / Exhibitor Hall

DNA Double-Stranded Breaks in Cardiac Cells in Nuclear Envelopathies

Leila Rouhi, MD, PhD, UTHealth

DAMPs as Novel Molecular Targets to Attenuate Plaque Vulnerability

Vikrant Rai, MBBS, MS, PhD, Western University of Health Sciences

The Secret Messages Between the Heart and Skeletal Muscle During Heart Failure

Samarjit Das, PhD, Johns Hopkins Medicine

The Mitochondrial LonP1 is Indispensable for Cardiac Maturation and Function

Venkatesh Sundararajan, MPharm, PhD, West Virginia University

Adjourn/Closing Ceremony

Gala Awards / Dinner

Westin Hotel Medical Center

Urolithin A, a Gut Microbiota Metabolite, Attenuates Isoprenaline-induced Acute Myocardial Injury in Rats

Ranko Skrbic, MD, PhD, MSc, University of Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Nampt activation for protecting the Diabetic Heart

Srinivas Tipparaju, PhD, USFHealth

The Role of Combined Administration of AT1 Receptor Antagonist & Neprylisin Inhibitor in the Promotion of Browning in an Experimental Model of Metabolic Syndrome

Vladimir Jakovljevic, MD, PhD, University of Kragujevac, Serbia

The crossroads of transcriptional regulation and metabolism

Kedryn Baskin, Ph.D. The Ohio State University

Adjourn/Closing Ceremony

Gala Awards / Dinner

Westin Hotel Medical Center