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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. Hossein Ardehali, University of Arizona, USA
7. George Arnaoutakis, UT Austin, USA
8. Zoltan Arany, University of Pennsylvania, USA
9. Dimitrios Avgerinos, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece
10. Johannes Backs, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
11. Shyam Bansal, Pennsylvania State University Hershey Medical Center, USA
12. Anton Bennett, Yale University, USA
13. Michael Bonios, Onassis Cardiac Center, Greece
14.  Ryan Boudreau, University of Iowa, USA
15. John Calvert, Emory University, USA
16. Jiang Chang, Texas A&M University, USA
17. Ke Cheng, Columbia University, USA
18. Helen Collins, University of Louisville, USA
19. Gianluigi Condorelli, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
20. Victor Darley-Usmar, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
21. Saumya Das, Harvard University, USA
22. Arjun Deb, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
23. Dominic Del Re, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, USA
24. Mirela Delibegovic, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
25. Dominic Del Re, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, USA 
26. Yvan Devaux, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Luxembourg
27. Damini Dey, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, USA
28. Stefanie Dimmeler, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
29. Stavros G. Drakos, University of Utah, USA
30. Konstantinos Drosatos, University of Cincinnati, USA
31. John Elefteriades, Yale University, USA
32. John Elrod, Temple University, USA
33. Jonathan Epstein, University of Pennsylvania, USA
34. Edward Fisher, New York University, USA
35. Roger Foo, Duke-National University of Singapore, Singapore
36. Nick Frangiogiannis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
37. Venkata Naga Srikanth Garikipati, Temple University, USA
38. Daniel Garry, University of Minnesota, USA
39. Mary Garry, University of Minnesota, USA
40. Glynnis Garry Bann, UT Southwestern, USA
41. Evripidis Gavathiotis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA 
42. Ira Goldberg, New York University, USA
43. Scott Gordon, University of Kentucky, USA
44. Robert Gourdie, Virginia Tech Roanoke, USA
45. Asa Gustafsson, UCSD, USA
46. Virginia Hahn, Johns Hopkins University, USA
47. Saptarsi Haldar, Amgen, USA
48. Shanna Hamilton, The University of Arizona, USA
49. Joshua Hare, University of Miami, USA
50. Samantha Harris, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
51. Konstantinos Hatzistergos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
52. Jorg Heineke, Heidelberg University, Germany
53. Joan Heller-Brown, University of California San Diego, USA
54. Joseph Hill, UT Southwestern, USA
55. Bradford Hill, University of Louisville, USA
56. Luis Hortells, UIT- The Artic University of Norway, Norway
57. Steven Houser, Temple University, USA
58. Patrick Hsieh, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
59. Thomas Hund, Ohio State University, USA
60. Iris Jaffe, Tufts Medical Center, USA
61. Brian Jensen, University of North Carolina, USA
62. Steven Jones, University of Louisville, USA
63. Marinos Kallikourdis, Humanitas Research Hospital, Italy
64. Timothy Kamp, University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA
65. Polydoros Kampaktsis, New York University Langone Medical Center, USA
66. Michael Kapiloff, Stanford University, USA
67. Jason Karch, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
68. Ioannis Karakikes, Stanford University, USA
69. Georgios Kararigas, University of Iceland, Iceland
70. Dimitris Kardassis, University of Crete, Greece
71. Anja Karlstaedt, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, USA
72. David Kass, Johns Hopkins University, USA
73. Izhak Kehat, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel
74. Michael Kelberman, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
75. Chase Kessinger, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
76. Raj Kishore, Temple University, USA
77. Jonathan Kirk, Loyola University, USA
78. Ulrich Kintscher, Charité Berlin, Germany
79. Lorrie Kirshenbaum, University of Manitoba, Canada
80. Walter J. Koch, Duke University, USA
81. Maria Kontaridis, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
82. Katia Kontrogianni, University of Maryland, USA
83. Simon Kraler, University of Zurich, Switzerland
84. Litsa Kranias, University of Cincinnati, USA
85. Antigone Lazou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
86. Kory Lavine, WashU at St Louis, USA
87. David Lefer, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
88. Leslie Leinwand, University of Colorado, USA
89. E. Douglas Lewandowski, The Ohio State University, USA
90. Zhiqiang Lin, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
91. Joy Lincoln, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
92. Tassos Lymperopoulos, Nova Southeastern University, USA
93. Xin-Liang Ma, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
94. Christoph Maack, University Clinic Wuerzburg, Germany
95. Ahmed Mahmoud, Sanford Burnham Prebys, USA
96. Cat Makarewich, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA
97. Douglas Mann, WashU at St Louis, USA
98. Eirini Marouli, Queen Mary University of London, UK
99. Maria Marketou, University of Crete, Greece
100. Fabio Martelli, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy
101. James Martin, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
102. Pilar Martín, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), Spain
103. Ljubica Matic, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
104. Sophie Mavrogeni, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Greece
105. Robert McGarrah, Duke University, USA
106. Tim McKinsey, University of Colorado, USA
107. Donald Menick, Medical University of South Carolina, USA
108. Jeffery Molkentin, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA
109. Elizabeth Murphy, National Institutes of Health, USA
110. Prabhakar Nagareddy, University of Oklahoma, USA
111. Rajasekaran Namakkal-Sorrappan, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
112. Chris Newgard, Duke University, USA
113. Matt Nystoriak, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
114. Evangelos Oikonomou, Yale University, USA
115. Eric Olson, UT Southwestern, USA
116. Philip Owens, University of Cincinnati, USA
117. Vaibhav Patel, University of Calgary, Canada
118. Davor Pavlovic, University of Birmingham, UK
119. Linda Peterson, Washington University St Louis, USA
120. Jessica Pfleger, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
121. Peipei Ping, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
122. Sumanth Prabhu, WashU at St Louis, USA
123. Benjamin Prosser, University of Pennsylvania, USA
124. Peter Psaltis, The University of Adelaide, Australia
125. Nicole Purcell, Huntington Medical Research Institutes, USA
126. Ravi Ramasamy, New York University, USA
127. Gustavo Ramos, University Hospital of Wurzburg, Germany
128. Stacey Rentschler, WashU St Louis, USA
129. Howard Rockman, Duke University, USA
130. Jack Rubinstein, University of Cincinnati, USA
131. Jun Sadoshima, Rutgers University Newark, USA
132. Sakthivel Sadayappan, University of Arizona, USA
133. David Sancho, CNIC- Fundación Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III, Spain
134. Priscila Sato, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
135. Gabriele Schiattarella, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
136. P. Christian Schulze, Clinical University of Jena, Germany
137. Sarah Schumacher-Bass, Cleveland Clinic, USA 
138. Simon Sedej, Medical University of Graz, Austria
139. Farah Sheikh, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
140. Long-Sheng Song, University of Iowa, USA
141. Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone Institutes, UCSF
142. Kimon Stamatelopoulos, University of Athens, Greece
143. Kristin Stanford, The Ohio State University, USA
144. ​Stavros Stavrakis, University of Oklahoma, USA
145. Konstantinos Stellos, Heidelberg University, Germany
146. Kika Sucharov, University of Colorado, USA
147. Scott Summers, University of Utah, USA
148. Michelle Tallquist, University of Hawaii, USA 
149. Emmanuel Tampakakis, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
150. Jil Tardiff, University of Arizona, USA
151. George Tellides, Yale University, USA
152. Konstantinos Theofilatos, King’s College London, UK
153. Edward Thorp, Northwestern University, USA
154. Rong Tian, University of Washington, USA
155. Douglas Tilley, Temple University, USA
156. Vesna Todorovic, Nature Cardiovascular Research
157. Maria Touloupaki, Hygeia Hospital, Greece
158. Konstantinos Toutouzas, University of Athens, Greece
159. Emily Tsai, Columbia University, USA
160. Alexandros Tselepis, University of Ioannina, Greece
161. Eleni Tseliou, University of Utah, USA
162. Konstantinos Tsioufis, University of Athens, Greece
163. Jolanda van der Velden, Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands
164. Eva van Rooij, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
165. Panos Vardas, Hygeia Hospital, Greece
166. Jop Van Berlo, University of Minnesota, USA
167. Jennifer Van Eyk, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, USA
168. Eva Van Rooij, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
169. Ioannis Verginadis, University of Pennsylvania, USA
170. Suresh Verma, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
171. Gemma Vilahur, Sant Pau Research Institute, Spain
172. Gus Vlahakes, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, USA
173. Niels Voigt, UMC Goettingen, Germany
174. Thomas Vondriska, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
175. Yiajing Wang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA 
176. Yibin Wang, Duke NUS Medical School, Singapore
177. Junco Warren, Virginia Tech at Roanoke, USA
178. Kate Weeks, University of Melbourne, Australia
179. Xander Wehrens, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
180. Daan Westenbrink, University of Groningen, Netherlands
181. Loren Wold, The Ohio State University, USA
182. Sean Wu, Stanford University, USA
183. Joseph C. Wu, Stanford University, USA
184. Tongbin Wu, Masonic Medical Research Institute, USA
185. Demetri Yannopoulos, University of Minnesota, USA
186. Martin Young, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
187. Andreas Zeiher, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
188. Jianyi (Jay) Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
189. Jianhua Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
190. Wolfram Zimmermann, University Medical Center Gottingen, Germany