DZHK Retreat 2024

as of 5 September 2024

Scientific Programme DZHK Retreat

Preliminary programme (last updated: 2 September 2024):

Thursday, 12 September 2024

13:30 - 14:30 | Registration and welcome coffee

Opening 

Chair: Holger Gerhardt

14:30-15:00 | Welcome and state of affairs, Stefanie Dimmeler, Steffen Massberg, Holger Gerhardt, Katharina Eulenburg
15:00-15:30 | 1st Keynote: New mechanisms of hypertension and target organ damage - basic and translational journey, Tomasz Guzik (Edinburgh, UK)

1st Session: New approaches in cardiovascular research

Chairs: Laura Zelarayan & Dominik Müller

15:30-15:45 | New pathways for drug delivery: Inhaled peptide-loaded nanoparticles, Alessio Alogna (Berlin)
15:45-16:00 | Linking chromatin structure to disease variants and gene programs in human cardiomyocytes, Shaza Haydar (Heidelberg)
16:00-16:15 | Mechanical unloading reveals a latent regeneration potential in the human heart, Olaf Bergmann (Göttingen)
16:15-16:30 | Sleep disturbance and cardiac disease, Karin Ziegler (München)
16:30-16:45 | Imaging, molecular signals and phenotypes – multidimensional AI based models to personalize prevention, Stefan Blankenberg (Hamburg)

16:45-17:00 | Group photo
17:00-17:30 | Coffee break

 

Highlights from the Young DZHK Retreat 

Chairs: Sonia Singh, Simone-Franziska Glaser, Michael Molitor

17:30-18:15 | Speakers and talks will be determined in Frankfurt a.M.

Best presentations of each session were voted for by the Young DZHK Retreat participants. Winners are awarded with prizes sponsored by a private donation.
 
19:00 | Dinner buffet on board & get together, doors open 18:30  


Friday, 13 September 2024

2nd Session: Heart failure - highlights from the partner sites

Chairs: Elisabeth Zeisberg & Norbert Frey

8:30-8:45 | Single cell analysis for personalized medicine, Henrike Maatz (Berlin)
8:45-9:00 | RBM20 mislocalization in dilated cardiomyopathy, Julia Kornienko (Heidelberg)
9:00-9:15 | Targeting endogenous membrane repair mechanisms in cardiac disease, Sören Brandenburg (Göttingen)
9:15-9:30 | Decipher HFpEF-DZHK12: Validation of cardiovascular magnetic resonance against invasive haemodynamics in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, Eike Nagel (Frankfurt)

9:30 - 10:00 | 2nd Keynote: TAVR and neuro protection - What have we learnt? Alexandra Lansky (Yale School of Medicine, New Haven/USA)

10:00-11:00 | Coffee break & checking out of rooms

3rd Session: From bench to industry

Chair: Thomas Eschenhagen

11:00-11:10 | EHTs as an advanced in vitro model for drug testing - DINABIOS, Thomas Eschenhagen (Hamburg)
11:10-11:20 | MYBPC3 gene therapy and spinout - DINAQOR, Lucie Carrier (Hamburg)
11:20-11:30 | Targeting RNA viruses with disruptive tech - Avocet Biosciences, Elisabeth Zeisberg (Göttingen)
11:30-11:40 | Therapeutic target and drug discovery - Genome Biologics, Jaya Krishnan (Frankfurt)
11:40-11:50 | Innovative therapies for cardiovascular disease - REVIER Therapeutics, Johannes Backs (Heidelberg)
11:50-12:00 | Targeted RNA therapy for organs - RNATICS, Stefan Engelhardt (München)

12:00-12:45 | Panel discussion

12:45-13:45 pm | Lunch break

4th Session: Vascular disease - highlights from the partner sites

Chairs: Dorothee Atzler & Philipp Wild

13:45-14:00 pm | Cardiovascular protection due to non- and coding genes at the CDH13 locus, Zhifen Chen (Munich)
14:00-14:15 pm | Metabolic regulation of vascular aging, Sofia Iris Bibli (Mannheim)
14:15-14:30 pm | Neuro-vascular interaction in cardiac aging, Julian U. G. Wagner (Frankfurt)
14:30-14:45 pm | DEDICATE-DZHK6 Trial: Randomized trial of TAVI versus SAVR in patients with symptomatic severe aortic valve stenosis and intermediate risk of mortality, Moritz Seiffert (Hamburg/Bochum)

14:45-15:15 pm | Coffee break

5th Session: Innovation cluster

Chairs: Rabea Hinkel

15:15-15:30 pm | Clonal hematopoesis, Andreas Zeiher, Sebastian Cremer (Frankfurt)
15:30-15:45 pm | Nucleic acid therapeutics, Julia Ritterhoff (Heidelberg)
15:45-16:00 pm | Brain heart interfaces, André Fischer (Göttingen)

16:00 - 16:10 pm | Closing remarks

16:10 - 16:30 pm | Farewell coffee & departure