
Pilar Alcaide, PhD
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston | US
T cell modulation of cardiac remodeling

Rui Benedito, PhD
Molecular Genetics of Angiogenesis
Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC)
Madrid | ES
Novel insights into angiogenesis from ratiometric mosaic functional genetics

Slava Epelman, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Peter Munk Cardiac Centre,
Department of Medicine
Toronto General Hospital
Toronto | CA
The role of macrophages in cardiac tissue injury

Mariona Graupera, PhD
Endothelial Pathobiology and Microenvironmental Lab
Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute
Barcelona | ES
Understanding endothelial cell heterogeneity in adipose tissue

Andrés Hidalgo, PhD
Department of Immunobiology
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven | US
Immune-metabolic coupling in the heart

Joanna Kalucka, PhD
Laboratory of Angiogenesis and Inflammation
Department of Biomedicine
Aarhus University
Aarhus | DK
Defining the vascular niche of human adipose tissue across metabolic conditions

Anja Karlstaedt, MD, PhD
Department of Cardiology,
Smidt Heart Institute
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles | US
Metabolic rewiring and epigenetic regulation of the heart

Christoph Kuppe, MD, PhD
Quantitative Cell Dynamics and Translational Systems Biology
RWTH Aachen University
Aachen | DE
Multimodal graph optimal transport for patient-level multiomics analysis of the human heart

Jonas Neher, PhD
Biomedical Center Munich, Biochemistry
LMU Munich & German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) e.V.
Munich | DE
Medin amyloid drives age- and Alzheimer’s disease-associated neurovascular dysfunction

Paul Riley, PhD
Institute of Developmental & Regenerative Medicine
University of Oxford
Oxford | UK
Targeting the cardiac lymphatics to optimise heart repair

Sabine Steffens, PhD
Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention
LMU Munich
Munich | DE
Innate immunity in cardiac repair and vascular disease

Moritz von Scheidt, MD
Moritz von Scheidt, MD
Department of Cardiology
German Heart Center Munich
TUM University Hospital
Munich | Germany
Relevance of somatic mutations in cardiovascular disease

Stephen White, PhD
International Centre for Life
Newcastle University
Newcastle | UK
The cell stress car crash – insights into the initiation of plaque erosion

Kai C. Wollert, MD
Division of Molecular and Translational Cardiology
Department of Cardiology and Angiology
Hannover Medical School
Hannover | DE
Myeloid cell control of myocardial angiogenesis

Karina Yaniv, PhD
Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology
Weizmann Institute of Science
Revohot | IL
Vascular control of organ growth and regeneration

Rebekka Schneider-Kramann, PhD
Institute for Cell and Tumor Biology
University Hospital RWTH Aachen
Aachen | DE
Regeneration of the bone marrow during resolution of bone marrow fibrosis after allogenic stem cell transplantation

Christopher Maximilian Arends, MD
Department of Hematology, Oncology and Cancer Immunology
Charitè Berlin | DE