Translational Symposium on New Cardiovascular Therapies 2027

PROGRAM
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Translational Symposium on New Cardiovascular Therapies

08.30-09.00 Registration, coffee and hanging up of posters

09.00-09.05 Welcome (Bruna Gigante, Andreas Edsfeldt)

09.05-09.35 State of the (he)art Lecture: Therapeutic landscape for cardiovascular disease: today and tomorrow
Bianca Rocca, Bari

09.35-10.15 New therapies for heart muscle and valvular disease (moderators – Christina Christersson, Arash Mokhtari)
Inotropic therapy – Oscar Braun, Lund
Metabolic therapy – Daniel C. Andersson, Stockholm

Pause and poster viewing 10.15-10.40

10.40-11.20
Gene therapy – Henrik Isackson, Uppsala
Targeting infiltrative cardiomyopathy – Gustav Smith, Gothenburg/Lund

11.20-12.00 New therapies for coronary artery disease (moderators – Bruna Gigante, Björn Redfors)
New horizons in lipid therapy – Jan Borén, Gothenburg
oxLDL clearance – Jan Nilsson, Malmö

12.00-13.00 Lunch and poster session

13.00-13.40 Coronary imaging for patient stratification and targets (moderators – Bruna Gigante, Björn Redfors)
Coronary assessment by cardiac MRI - Jannicke Nickander, Stockholm
Vulnerable plaques and patient selection – Isabel Goncalves, Malmö

13.40-14.20 New therapies for cardiac arythmias (interactive session, moderators – Annika Winbo, Jesper van der Pals)
Why so few new antiarrythmic therapies? – Annika Winbo, Umeå
Promising ion channel therapies - Sara Liin, Linköping

14.20-14.50 Coffee break and poster viewing

14.50-15.30
Towards new therapeutics in atrial fibrillation? – Svetlana Reilly, Oxford
POTS – a new syndrome – Artur Fedorowski, Stockholm

15.30-15.50 Keynote: Perspectives from Big Pharma - Christoph Varenhorst

15.50-16.00 Summary and Poster Awards (Bruna Gigante)

Arbetsgruppen för translationell kardiologisk forskning, Svenska Kardiologföreningen: