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