Sydney Cardiovascular Symposium Program

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8am - Registrations, coffee
8.45am - Symposium begins

Session I: Cardiometabolic Disease – the challenge for Australia

9am - ‘Are we witnessing a convergence of guideline-directed therapies for heart failure and chronic kidney disease?’ - Brendon Neuen, Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The George Institute for Global Health
9.25am - ‘Too Deadly: The Aboriginal solution to diabetes and cardiovascular disease’ - Ray Kelly, Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health
9.50am - ‘Optimisation of cardiometabolic medicines in Australia: current gaps in implementation and ways to improve the effective and safe use of these medicines’ - Tamara Milder
10.10am - Flash Talks: Rob Hume, Joanna Liu, Gabrielle Pennings

Session II: Obesity and CV & Kidney Disease

11am - ‘Biased agonism at the GLP-1 receptor: from structure to animal models of disease’ - Denise Wootten, Monash University
11.25am - ‘Mitochondrial uncoupler drug development for the treatment of obesity’ - Kyle Hoehn, University of New South Wales
11.50am - ‘Epicardial adiposity and the substrate for atrial fibrillation’ - Chrishan Nallan, Macquarie University Hospital
12.20pm - Flash Talks: Jeffrey Wang, Jasmine Banks, Heather Medbury
12.25pm - ‘Schrödinger's Obese Cat, the 3-Body Problem and the Big Short!’ - Faraz Pathan, Nepean Hospital

Session III: Lunch & Posters

Session IV: Inflammation - sponsored by GSK

2.20pm - ‘cis-WOOH: A novel, inflammation specific, arterial hyperpolarising factor’ - Chris Stanley, Heart Research Institute
2.45pm - ‘"New" approaches to tackle coronary atherosclerosis after myocardial infarction’ - Peter Psaltis, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute
3.10pm - ‘Engineering of rapid antibody-based biosensors for single molecule diagnostics’ - Jordan Cater, University of Wollongong
3.30pm ‘Respiratory viruses and cardiovascular disease’ - Timothy Tan, University of Wollongong

Session V: Industry/Translation Panel

Panellists: Peter Bush, Elena Velkoska, Kyle Hoehn, Andrew Grace

4.20pm - Pitch It!’ Commercialisation presentations from Chai (Andy) Ng, Laura Choong, and Stewart Heitmann

Networking Drinks

8am - Registrations, coffee
8.45am - Symposium Day 2 begins

Session VI: Sydney Cardiovascular Symposium Lecture - sponsored by UNSW: Cardiac, Vascular and Metabolic Medicine

Intro by Clare Arnott
9am - Plenary Speaker Prof Tina Vilsbøll presenting ‘Treating Obesity & Cardiovascular Outcomes’

Session VII: Fibrosis

10.30am - ‘Exploring the Complexities of Cardiac Fibrosis Using Single-Cell Genomics and Novel Mouse Models’ - Vaibhao Janbandhu, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
10.55am - ‘Unraveling the mysteries of pro-resolving GPCRs: pioneering innovations in cardiovascular medicine’ - Helena Qin, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
11.20am - Flash Talks: Audrey Adji, Julee McDonagh, Helen Williams

Session VIII: Young Investigator Award Talks

11.40am Rising Stars presenting: Osvaldo Contreras, Nicola Straiton, Amanda Croft
12.40pm - Cathy Kellick presenting ‘NSW OHMR and Cardiovascular Capacity Building Grants’ and NSW CVRN’s Alice Gibson

Session IX: Lunch & Posters

Session X: Single Cell Biology

2.15pm - ‘Single cell maps of human heart excitation’ - Andrew Grace, University of Cambridge U
2.40pm - ‘Inflammation in Atherosclerosis: Implications for Plaque Cell Fate’ - Ashish Misra, Heart Research Institute
3.05pm - ‘Slowing down the molecular aging clock in the mammalian heart by exercise’ - Emily Wong, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute
3.30pm - ‘FACS-assisted single-cell lipidome analysis in cells of different lineages’ - Sarah Hancock, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

Session XI: Princesses' Lecture

4.15pm - Introduction by Prof Jamie Vandenberg
4.30pm - Plenary Speaker Prof Richard Harvey presenting ‘A line made by walking’

Networking Drinks & Awards

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