Abstract submission deadline: February 20th
Program
Friday, March 9
08:30-08:50. Registration
08:50-09:00. Opening by CNIC Conference Organizers.
Session I - Vascular Inflammation
Chair: Paul S. Frenette
09:00-09:40. María Jesus Sanz, University of Valencia, Spain.
"Imaging innate immunity in the inflamed vasculature"
09:40-10:20. Tatiana Byzova, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, USA.
"Toll like receptors as sensors of oxidative stress"
10:20-11:00. Sussan Nourshargh, William Harvey Research Institute, London, UK.
"Mechanisms of leukocyte transmigration in vivo: Complexities of breaching multiple barriers"
11:00-11:20. Coffe Break
11:20. Welcome by Valentín Fuster
Chair: Francisco Sánchez-Madrid
11:30-12:10. Sandip Biswal, Stanford University Medical Center, USA.
"Imaging of ion channels, glucose metabolism and macrophage responses in inflammation"
12:10-12:50. Paul S. Frenette, Ruth L. and David S. Gottesman Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA.
"Neural control of vascular inflammation"
12:50-13:30. Christian Weber, Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany
"Chemokines as key regulators of vascular inflammation"
13:30-13:45. Short talk: Ioakim Spyridopoulos. Newcastle University, UK.
"High-Throughput 13-Parameter Immunophenotyping and Multivariate Flow Clustering in patients with acute myocardial infarction"
13:45-14:45. Lunch
Session II - Vascular Aging
Chair: Leslie B. Gordon
14:45-15:25. Carole Dufouil, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris
Cedex, France
"Hypertension, brain changes at MRI and cognitive changes in aging population: A complex relationship"
15:25-16:05. Peter M Nilsson, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Sweden.
"Vascular ageing and cognitive decline - new frontiers in 2012"
16:05-16:45. Simon Melov, Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, USA.
"Mitochondrial function and pharmacological reversal/attenuation of age-related heart disease"
16:45-17:05. Coffee Break
Chair: Vicente Andrés
17:05-17:45. Abraham Aviv, The Center of Human Development and Aging, New Jersey Medical School, USA
"Telomeres dynamics, the 'hemothelium' and atherosclerosis"
17:45-18:25. Leslie B. Gordon, Hasbro Children's Hospital, Progeria Research Foundation, Peabody, USA.
"The progeria story – a model for translational research"
18:25-19:05. Edward G. Lakatta, National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, USA.
"The stress of aging viewed from the central arterial wall"
19:05-19:20. Short talk: Francisco J. Blanco. Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas (CSIC) and CIBER de Enfermedades Raras (ISCIII). Madrid, Spain
"The splicing factor SRSF1 is a key regulator for the expression of S-endoglin during endothelial senescence"
19:20-20:00. Poster Exhibition
Saturday, March 10
Session III - Vascular Imaging
Chair: Robin P. Choudhury
09:00-09:40. Zahi A. Fayad, Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, Mount Sinai School of
Medicine, New York, USA.
"Imaging and therapy of vascular inflammation"
09:40-10:20. James Rudd, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
"Measurement of vascular risk using imaging - focus on PET/CT"
10:20-11:00. Guillermo J. Tearney, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.
"The future of coronary ,OCT"
11:00-11:20.Coffee Break
Chair: Zahi A. Fayad
11:20-12:00. Michael McConnell, Stanford School of Medicine, USA.
"Bioengineered probes for imaging and therapy of vascular inflammation"
12:00-12:40. Robin P. Choudhury, University of Oxford, UK.
"Imaging vascular inflammation with MRI"
12:40-12:55. Short talk: Fernando Herranz. Advanced Imaging Unit. Epidemiology, Atherothrombosis and Imaging. CNIC. Madrid
"Nanoparticles as blood pool contrast agents; Multimodal Imaging"
12:55-14:00. Poster Exhibition
