Scientific Program

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 April 14, 2026)

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. Ioanna Katerina Aggeli,  National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
6. Pilar Alcaide, University of Miami, USA
7. Alexios Antonopoulos, University of Athens, Greece
8. Hossein Ardehali, University of Arizona, USA
9. George Arnaoutakis, UT Austin, USA
10. Zoltan Arany, University of Pennsylvania, USA
11. Dimitrios Avgerinos, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece
12. Johannes Backs, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
13. Shyam Bansal, Pennsylvania State University Hershey Medical Center, USA
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. Matthew J. Brody, University of Michigan, USA
20. John Calvert, Emory University, USA
21. Maria Carmo-Fonseca, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Portugal
22. Jiang Chang, Texas A&M University, USA
23. Ke Cheng, Columbia University, USA
24. Sangita Choudhury, Harvard Medical School, USA
25. Helen Collins, University of Louisville, USA
26. Gianluigi Condorelli, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
27. Victor Darley-Usmar, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 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. Eleni Drakaki, American College of Greece, Greece
38. Stavros G. Drakos, University of Utah, USA
39. Konstantinos Drosatos, University of Cincinnati, USA
40. John Elefteriades, Yale University, USA
41. John Elrod, Temple University, USA
42. Jonathan Epstein, University of Pennsylvania, USA
43. Gerasimos Filippatos, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
44. Edward Fisher, New York University, USA
45. Roger Foo, Duke-National University of Singapore, Singapore
46. Nick Frangogiannis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
47. Venkata Naga Srikanth Garikipati, Temple University, USA
48. Daniel Garry, University of Minnesota, USA
49. Mary Garry, University of Minnesota, USA
50. Glynnis Garry Bann, UT Southwestern, USA
51. Evripidis Gavathiotis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA 
52. Ying Ge, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
53. Georgios Georgiopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
54. Joshua Gillard, Stanford University, USA
55. Peter Glijnis, PLN Foundation, Netherlands
56. Scott Gordon, University of Kentucky, USA
57. Michael Gotthardt, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
58. Robert Gourdie, Virginia Tech Roanoke, USA
59. Carolina Greco, Humanitas University, Italy
60. Rebekah Gundry, University of Nebraska, USA
61. Asa Gustafsson, UCSD, USA
62. Virginia Hahn, Johns Hopkins University, USA
63. Roger Hajjar, Mass General Brigham, USA
64. Shanna Hamilton, The University of Arizona, USA
65. Joshua Hare, University of Miami, USA
66. Samantha Harris, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
67. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, University of Thessaly, Greece
68. Konstantinos Hatzistergos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
69. Lisa Heather, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
70. Joerg Heineke, Heidelberg University, Germany
71. Joan Heller-Brown, University of California San Diego, USA
72. Bradford Hill, University of Louisville, USA
73. Joseph Hill, UT Southwestern, USA
74. Camila Hochman-Mendez, The Texas Heart Institute, USA
75. Luis Hortells, UIT- The Artic University of Norway, Norway
76. Steven Houser, Temple University, USA
77. Patrick Hsieh, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
78. Dakota Hunt, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
79. Thomas Hund, Ohio State University, USA
80. Iris Jaffe, Tufts Medical Center, USA
81. Steven Jones, University of Louisville, USA
82. Marinos Kallikourdis, Humanitas Research Hospital, Italy
83. Timothy Kamp, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
84. Polydoros Kampaktsis, New York University Langone Medical Center, USA
85. Christos Kapelios, University of Athens, Greece
86. Michael Kapiloff, Stanford University, USA
87. Jason Karch, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
88. Ioannis Karakikes, Stanford University, USA
89. Georgios Kararigas, University of Nicosia-Athens, Greece
90. Jessica Karch, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
91. Dimitris Kardassis, University of Crete, Greece
92. Anja Karlstaedt, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, USA
93. Efstathios Kastritis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 
94. Izhak Kehat, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel
95. Michael Kelberman, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
96. Chase Kessinger, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
97. Petra Kienesberger, Dalhousie University, Canada
98. Ulrich Kintscher, Charité Berlin, Germany
99. Jonathan Kirk, Loyola University, USA
100. Lorrie Kirshenbaum, University of Manitoba, Canada
101. Raj Kishore, Temple University, USA
102. Richard Kitsis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA  
103. Kamil A Kobak, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, USA
104. Walter J. Koch, Duke University, USA
105. Antigone Koliopoulou, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece
106. Maria Kontaridis, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
107. Katia Kontrogianni, University of Maryland, USA
108. Maria Koutelou, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens, Greece
109. Simon Kraler, University of Zurich, Switzerland
110. Litsa Kranias, University of Cincinnati, USA
111. Guido Kroemer, Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne Université, France
112. Antigone Lazou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
113. Kory Lavine, WashU at St Louis, USA
114. David Lefer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
115. Leslie Leinwand, University of Colorado, USA
116. E. Douglas Lewandowski, The Ohio State University, USA
117. Rich Gang Li, The Texas Heart Institute, USA
118. Zhiqiang Lin, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
119. Joy Lincoln, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
120. Xin-Liang Ma, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
121. Christoph Maack, University Clinic Wuerzburg, Germany
122. Ahmed Mahmoud, Sanford Burnham Prebys, USA
123. Cat Makarewich, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA
124. Ali J. Marian, University of Texas Houston, USA
125. Maria Marketou, University of Crete, Greece
126. Eirini Marouli, Queen Mary University of London, UK
127. Fabio Martelli, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy
128. Pilar Martín, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Spain
129. Thomas Martin, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
130. Ljubica Matic, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
131. Sophie Mavrogeni, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece
132. Jason McCarthy, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
133. Robert McGarrah, Duke University, USA
134. Tim McKinsey, University of Colorado, USA
135. Benjamin Meder, Heidelberg University, Germany
136. Emiliano Horacio Medei, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
137. Donald Menick, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
138. Mark Mercola, Stanford University, USA
139. Lampros Michalis, University of Ioannina, Greece
140. Nimesh Mody, University of Aberdeen, UK
141. Jeffery Molkentin, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA
142. Andrew Murphy, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia
143. Prabhakar Nagareddy, University of Oklahoma, USA
144. Katerina Naka, University of Ioannina, Greece
145. Rajasekaran Namakkal-Sorrappan, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
146. Chris Newgard, Duke University, USA
147. Lisa Nolte, Max Delbrück Center, Germany 
148. Matt Nystoriak, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
149. Timothy O’Connell, University of Minnesota, USA
150. Antonios Pantazis, Linkoping University, Sweden
151. Vaibhav Patel, University of Calgary, Canada
152. Davor Pavlovic, University of Birmingham, UK
153. Linda Peterson, Washington University St Louis, USA
154. Ioannis Petropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
155. Peipei Ping, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
156. Sumanth Prabhu, WashU at St Louis, USA
157. Benjamin Prosser, University of Pennsylvania, USA
158. Peter Psaltis, The University of Adelaide, Australia
159. Stelios Psarras, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens 
160. Nicole Purcell, Huntington Medical Research Institutes, USA
161. Ravi Ramasamy, New York University, USA
162. Gustavo Ramos, University Hospital of Wurzburg, Germany
163. Kleopatra Rapti, University of Heidelberg, Germany 
164. Stacey Rentschler, WashU St Louis, USA
165. Howard Rockman, Duke University, USA
166. Manuel Rosa-Garrido, Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology of Cantabria, Spain
167. Jack Rubinstein, University of Cincinnati, USA
168. Hesham Sadek, The University of Arizona, USA
169. Jun Sadoshima, Rutgers University Newark, USA
170. Sakthivel Sadayappan, University of Arizona, USA
171. Susmita Sahoo, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
172. David Sancho, CNIC- Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Spain
173. Priscila Sato, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
174. Nazish Sayed, Stanford University, USA
175. David Shechner, University of Washington Pharmacology, USA
176. Gabriele Schiattarella, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
177. P. Christian Schulze, Clinical University of Jena, Germany
178. Sarah Schumacher-Bass, Cleveland Clinic, USA 
179. Simon Sedej, Medical University of Graz, Austria
180. Farah Sheikh, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
181. Long-Sheng Song, University of Iowa, USA
182. Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone Institutes, UCSF
183. Kimon Stamatelopoulos, University of Athens, Greece
184. Kristin Stanford, The Ohio State University, USA
185. ​Stavros Stavrakis, University of Oklahoma, USA
186. Lars Steinmetz, Stanford University, USA
187. Konstantinos Stellos, Heidelberg University, Germany
188. Francesca Stillitano, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
189. Kika Sucharov, University of Colorado, USA
190. Scott Summers, University of Utah, USA
191. Luai Tabaza, Rowan University, 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. Douglas Tilley, Temple University, USA
197. Vesna Todorovic, Nature Cardiovascular Research
198. Maria Touloupaki, Hygeia Hospital, Greece
199. Konstantinos Toutouzas, University of Athens, Greece
200. Alexandros Tselepis, University of Ioannina, Greece
201. Eleni Tseliou, University of Utah, USA
202. Konstantinos Tsioufis, University of Athens, Greece
203. Hector Valdivia, University of Wisconsin, USA
204. Jolanda van der Velden, Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands
205. Jop Van Berlo, University of Minnesota, USA
206. Eva Van Rooij, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
207. Panos Vardas, Hygeia Hospital, Greece
208. Ioannis Verginadis, University of Pennsylvania, USA
209. Suresh Verma, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
210. Gemma Vilahur, Sant Pau Research Institute, Spain
211. Charalambos Vlachopoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
212. Niels Voigt, UMC Goettingen, Germany
213. Thomas Vondriska, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
214. Yiajing Wang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA 
215. Junco Warren, Virginia Tech at Roanoke, USA
216. Xander Wehrens, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
217. Brian Weil, University at Buffalo, USA
218. Noah Weisleder, The Ohio State University, USA
219. Daan Westenbrink, University of Groningen, Netherlands
220. Loren Wold, The Ohio State University, USA
221. Tongbin Wu, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
222. Yang Kevin Xiang, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
223. Demetri Yannopoulos, University of Minnesota, USA
224. Martin Young, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
225. Andreas Zeiher, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
226. Jianyi (Jay) Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
227. Jianhua Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
228. Wolfram Zimmermann, University Medical Center Gottingen, Germany