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Opening Keynote Lecture
A Change of Heart: From Genetics to New Therapeutics
​Deepak Srivastava
President, Gladstone Institutes
Director, Roddenberry Stem Cell Center at Gladstone
Professor in Pediatrics, University of California at San Francisco, USA

Closing Keynote Lecture
From Geroscience to Precision Geromedicine: Understanding and managing cardiovascular aging
Guido Kroemer
​“Directeur de Recherche de classe exceptionnelle”, INSERM
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Paris Descartes / Université Paris Cité , France ​

 Confirmed speakers and moderators (alphabetically, as of June 12, 2025)

1. Maha Abdelatif, Rutgers University, USA
2. Mahmoud Abdellatif, Medical University of Graz, Austria
3. Dale Abel, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
4. Federica Accornero, Brown University, USA
5. Pilar Alcaide, University of Miami, USA
6. Alexios Antonopoulos, University of Athens, Greece
7. Hossein Ardehali, University of Arizona, USA
8. George Arnaoutakis, UT Austin, USA
9. Zoltan Arany, University of Pennsylvania, USA
10. Dimitrios Avgerinos, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece
11. Johannes Backs, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
12. Shyam Bansal, Pennsylvania State University Hershey Medical Center, USA
13. Athanasios Benetos, University Hospital of Nancy and INSERM, France 
14. Anton Bennett, Yale University, USA
15. Ioannis Boletis, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
16. Roberto Bolli, University of Louisville, USA
    
17. Michael Bonios, Onassis Cardiac Center, Greece
18.  Ryan Boudreau, University of Iowa, USA
19. John Calvert, Emory University, USA
20. Maria Carmo-Fonseca, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal
21. Jiang Chang, Texas A&M University, USA
22. Ke Cheng, Columbia University, USA
23. Sangita Choudhury, Harvard Medical School, USA
24. Helen Collins, University of Louisville, USA
25. Gianluigi Condorelli, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
26. Victor Darley-Usmar, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
27. Saumya Das, Harvard University, USA
28. Buddhadeb Dawn, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
29. Sharlene Day, University of Pennsylvania, USA
30. Arjun Deb, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
31. Mirela Delibegovic, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
32. Dominic Del Re, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, USA 
33. Yvan Devaux, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg
34. Damini Dey, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, USA
35. Stefanie Dimmeler, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
36. Pieter Doevendans, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
37. Stavros G. Drakos, University of Utah, USA
38. Konstantinos Drosatos, University of Cincinnati, USA
39. John Elefteriades, Yale University, USA
40. John Elrod, Temple University, USA
41. Jonathan Epstein, University of Pennsylvania, USA
42. Gerasimos Filippatos, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
43. Edward Fisher, New York University, USA
44. Roger Foo, Duke-National University of Singapore, Singapore
45. Nick Frangogiannis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
46. Venkata Naga Srikanth Garikipati, Temple University, USA
47. Daniel Garry, University of Minnesota, USA
48. Mary Garry, University of Minnesota, USA
49. Glynnis Garry Bann, UT Southwestern, USA
50. Evripidis Gavathiotis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA 
51. Ying Ge, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
52. Joshua Gillard, Stanford University, USA
53. Peter Glijnis, PLN Foundation, Netherlands
54. Ira Goldberg, New York University, USA
55. Scott Gordon, University of Kentucky, USA
56. Michael Gotthardt, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
57. Robert Gourdie, Virginia Tech Roanoke, USA
58. Rebekah Gundry, University of Nebraska, USA
59. Asa Gustafsson, UCSD, USA
60. Virginia Hahn, Johns Hopkins University, USA
61. Roger Hajjar, Mass General Brigham, USA
62. Saptarsi Haldar, Genentech (a member of the Roche group), USA
63. Shanna Hamilton, The University of Arizona, USA
64. Joshua Hare, University of Miami, USA
65. Samantha Harris, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
66. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, University of Thessaly, Greece
67. Konstantinos Hatzistergos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
68. Joerg Heineke, Heidelberg University, Germany
69. Joan Heller-Brown, University of California San Diego, USA
70. Bradford Hill, University of Louisville, USA
71. Joseph Hill, UT Southwestern, USA
72. Camila Hochman-Mendez, The Texas Heart Institute, USA
73. Luis Hortells, UIT- The Artic University of Norway, Norway
74. Steven Houser, Temple University, USA
75. Patrick Hsieh, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
76. Dakota Hunt, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
77. Thomas Hund, Ohio State University, USA
78. Iris Jaffe, Tufts Medical Center, USA
79. Brian Jensen, University of North Carolina, USA
80. Steven Jones, University of Louisville, USA
81. Marinos Kallikourdis, Humanitas Research Hospital, Italy
82. Timothy Kamp, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
83. Polydoros Kampaktsis, New York University Langone Medical Center, USA
84. Christos Kapelios, University of Athens, Greece
85. Michael Kapiloff, Stanford University, USA
86. Jason Karch, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
87. Ioannis Karakikes, Stanford University, USA
88. Georgios Kararigas, University of Iceland, Iceland
89. Dimitris Kardassis, University of Crete, Greece
90. Anja Karlstaedt, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, USA
91. David Kass, Johns Hopkins University, USA
92. Izhak Kehat, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel
93. Michael Kelberman, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
94. Chase Kessinger, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
95. Petra Kienesberger, Dalhousie University, Canada
96. Ulrich Kintscher, Charité Berlin, Germany
97. Jonathan Kirk, Loyola University, USA
98. Lorrie Kirshenbaum, University of Manitoba, Canada
99. Raj Kishore, Temple University, USA
100. Walter J. Koch, Duke University, USA
101. Antogone Koliopoulou, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece
102. Maria Kontaridis, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
103. Katia Kontrogianni, University of Maryland, USA
104. Simon Kraler, University of Zurich, Switzerland
105. Litsa Kranias, University of Cincinnati, USA
106. Guido Kroemer, Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université, France
107. Antigone Lazou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
108. Kory Lavine, WashU at St Louis, USA
109. David Lefer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
110. Leslie Leinwand, University of Colorado, USA
111. E. Douglas Lewandowski, The Ohio State University, USA
112. Zhiqiang Lin, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
113. Joy Lincoln, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
114. Tassos Lymperopoulos, Nova Southeastern University, USA
115. Xin-Liang Ma, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
116. Christoph Maack, University Clinic Wuerzburg, Germany
117. Ahmed Mahmoud, Sanford Burnham Prebys, USA
118. Cat Makarewich, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA
119. Douglas Mann, WashU at St Louis, USA
120. Eduardo Marban, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
121. Ali J. Marian, University of Texas Houston, USA
     
122. Maria Marketou, University of Crete, Greece
123. Eirini Marouli, Queen Mary University of London, UK
124. Fabio Martelli, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy
125. James Martin, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
126. Pilar Martín, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Spain
127. Thomas Martin, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
128. Ljubica Matic, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
129. Sophie Mavrogeni, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece
130. Jason McCarthy, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
131. Robert McGarrah, Duke University, USA
132. Tim McKinsey, University of Colorado, USA
133. Benjamin Meder, Heidelberg University, Germany
134. Donald Menick, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
135. Lampros Michalis, University of Ioannina, Greece
136. Jeffery Molkentin, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA
137. Iordanis Mourouzis, University of Athens, Greece
138. Andrew Murphy, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia
139. Elizabeth Murphy, National Institutes of Health, USA
140. Prabhakar Nagareddy, University of Oklahoma, USA
141. Katerina Naka, University of Ioannina, Greece
142. Rajasekaran Namakkal-Sorrappan, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
143. Chris Newgard, Duke University, USA
144. Lisa Nolte, Max Delbrück Center, Germany 
145. Matt Nystoriak, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
146. Evangelos Oikonomou, Yale University, USA
147. Eric Olson, UT Southwestern, USA
148. Philip Owens, University of Cincinnati, USA
149. Antonios Pantazis, Linkoping University, Sweden
150. Antonis Pantazis, Royal Brompton Hospital, UK
151. Constantinos I. Pantos, University of Athens, Greece
152. Vaibhav Patel, University of Calgary, Canada
153. Davor Pavlovic, University of Birmingham, UK
154. Linda Peterson, Washington University St Louis, USA
155. Jessica Pfleger, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
156. Peipei Ping, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
157. Sumanth Prabhu, WashU at St Louis, USA
158. Benjamin Prosser, University of Pennsylvania, USA
159. Peter Psaltis, The University of Adelaide, Australia
160. William Pu, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
161. Nicole Purcell, Huntington Medical Research Institutes, USA
162. Ravi Ramasamy, New York University, USA
163. Gustavo Ramos, University Hospital of Wurzburg, Germany
164. Kleopatra Rapti, University of Heidelberg, Germany 
165. Stacey Rentschler, WashU St Louis, USA
166. Howard Rockman, Duke University, USA
167. Manuel Rosa-Garrido, Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria, Spain
168. Jack Rubinstein, University of Cincinnati, USA
169. Hesham Sadek, The University of Arizona, USA
170. Jun Sadoshima, Rutgers University Newark, USA
171. Sakthivel Sadayappan, University of Arizona, USA
172. David Sancho, CNIC- Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Spain
173. Despina Sanoudou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece  
174. Priscila Sato, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
175. Gabriele Schiattarella, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
176. P. Christian Schulze, Clinical University of Jena, Germany
177. Sarah Schumacher-Bass, Cleveland Clinic, USA 
178. Simon Sedej, Medical University of Graz, Austria
179. Farah Sheikh, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
180. Long-Sheng Song, University of Iowa, USA
181. Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone Institutes, UCSF
182. Kimon Stamatelopoulos, University of Athens, Greece
183. Kristin Stanford, The Ohio State University, USA
184. ​Stavros Stavrakis, University of Oklahoma, USA
185. Lars Steinmetz, Stanford University, USA
186. Konstantinos Stellos, Heidelberg University, Germany
187. Francesca Stillitano, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
188. Kika Sucharov, University of Colorado, USA
189. Scott Summers, University of Utah, USA
190. Luai Tabaza, Rowan University, USA
191. Michelle Tallquist, University of Hawaii, USA 
192. Emmanuel Tampakakis, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
193. Jil Tardiff, University of Arizona, USA
194. George Tellides, Yale University, USA
195. Konstantinos Theofilatos, King’s College London, UK
196. Edward Thorp, Northwestern University, USA
197. Rong Tian, University of Washington, USA
198. Douglas Tilley, Temple University, USA
199. Vesna Todorovic, Nature Cardiovascular Research
200. Maria Touloupaki, Hygeia Hospital, Greece
201. Konstantinos Toutouzas, University of Athens, Greece
202. Emily Tsai, Columbia University, USA
203. Alexandros Tselepis, University of Ioannina, Greece
204. Eleni Tseliou, University of Utah, USA
205. Konstantinos Tsioufis, University of Athens, Greece
206. Hector Valdivia, University of Wisconsin, USA
207. Jolanda van der Velden, Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands
208. Jop Van Berlo, University of Minnesota, USA
209. Jennifer Van Eyk, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, USA
210. Eva Van Rooij, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
211. Panos Vardas, Hygeia Hospital, Greece
212. Ioannis Verginadis, University of Pennsylvania, USA
213. Suresh Verma, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
214. Gemma Vilahur, Sant Pau Research Institute, Spain
215. Niels Voigt, UMC Goettingen, Germany
216. Thomas Vondriska, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
217. Yiajing Wang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA 
218. Yibin Wang, Duke NUS Medical School, Singapore
219. Junco Warren, Virginia Tech at Roanoke, USA
220. Kate Weeks, University of Melbourne, Australia
221. Xander Wehrens, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
222. Brian Weil, University at Buffalo, USA
223. Daan Westenbrink, University of Groningen, Netherlands
224. Loren Wold, The Ohio State University, USA
225. Sean Wu, Stanford University, USA
226. Tongbin Wu, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
227. Yang Kevin Xiang, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
228. Demetri Yannopoulos, University of Minnesota, USA
229. Martin Young, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
230. Andreas Zeiher, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
231. Jianyi (Jay) Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
232. Jianhua Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
233. Wolfram Zimmermann, University Medical Center Gottingen, Germany