Oxford BHF CRE Symposium 2021
CRE
Wednesday, 10 November 2021, 10am to 6pm
Hosted by Professor Hugh Watkins
All day virtual event (Zoom and Gather Town). The programme will run from 10am to 5.30pm.
Booklet - programme, speaker abstracts, poster list, poster abstracts.
Booklet - programme, speaker abstracts, poster list.
Programme
Morning session speakers: 10am – 12.15pm
Oxford BHF CRE Transition Fellows
- Dr Kerstin Timm: The crucial role of metabolism in cardio-oncology
- Dr Peter Chan: Air pollution and cardiovascular health: what’s more to know?
- Dr Marion Mafham: Cardiovascular outcomes in clinical trials: definitions of truth
- Dr Qiang Zhang: ‘Virtual contrast dye’ to replace gadolinium and needles: How AI is advancing cardiac MRI
Short-listed poster presenters
- Short talks from poster presenters who have been short-listed by the poster judges and who will compete for overall winner in each of the categories of student and non-student.
Interactive poster session: 12.30 – 1.30pm
- All invited poster presenters will be available in a Gather Town setting, so attendees can view the posters and ask questions of the authors in real time.
Afternoon session speakers: 1.45pm – 4pm
- Dr Chris Toepfer CVMed, RDM - Human stem cell models for defining cellular pathomechanisms in inherited cardiomyopathies
- Francesca Margara Dept Computer Sciences - Human-based Computational Investigations into Cardiac Electromechanical Alterations Caused by Drugs and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Professor Ellie Tzima CVMed, RDM - Mechano-pulling the strings on atherosclerosis
- Dr Jason Torres NDPH - Genetic insights from the Mexico City Prospective Study
- Dr Alice Neal DPAG - Transcriptional regulation of arterial-venous patterning
- Dr Richard Tyser DPAG - Defining Cardiac Progenitors During Early Human Heart Development
4pm: Keynote Speaker – Professor Eric Olson, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Title: Toward Genetic Therapies for Cardiovascular Disease
If you have any queries please contact Philippa Major or Kate Forbes.