This will be an in-person and hybrid event held on the 12th Floor of the Uren Building, White City Campus.
There will be a wide range of talks from themes in the Centre and in addition to providing an overview of the Centres aims and progress, this year it will also include joint sessions with the University of Oxford in the morning session and with the Cambridge BHF CRE for the afternoon session.
A Poster session will also be held during the event. The Programme of the day includes
Joint Symposium – BHF Centre of Research Excellence: Imperial, Oxford & Cambridge
Morning Session – BHF Imperial Centre of Research Excellence & Oxford
09:30 – 10:00 – Registration and refreshments
10:00 – 10:05 – Welcome – Professor Barbara Casadei, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Head of the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial & Professor Costanza Emanueli, Co-Director of the BHF Imperial CRE, BHF Chair in Cardiovascular Science, Imperial
Chairpersons: Professor Martin Wilkins, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Imperial & Professor Betty Raman, Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Imperial
10:05 – 10:20 – Overview and update of BHF CRE Theme 1 & Theme 4 – Professor Jamil Mayet, Professor of Cardiology & Dr Fu Siong Ng, Reader in Cardiac Electrophysiology, Imperial
10:20 – 10:35 – ‘Making my heart count’ – Professor Allan Lawrie, Chair of Pulmonary Vascular Diseases, Imperial
10:35– 10:50 – ‘AI-ECG risk assessment in cardiovascular disease’ – Dr Fu Siong Ng, Reader in Cardiac Electrophysiology, Imperial
10:50 – 11:05 – ‘From proteins to whole heart physiology: building a digital heart’ – Professor Steve Niederer, Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Imperial
11:05 – 11:20 – Overview of the BHF Oxford Centre of Research Excellence – Professor Blanca Rodriguez, Professor of Computational Medicine and Wellcome Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Sciences, Oxford University
11:20 – 11:40 – Break – Refreshments
Chairpersons: Professor Jane Mitchell, Professor of Pharmacology in Critical Care Medicine & Professor Jamil Mayet, Professor of Cardiology, Imperial
11:40 – 11:55 – ‘Using radiotranscriptomics in cardiovascular research’ – Professor Charis Antoniades, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oxford University
11:55 – 12:10 – ‘From heart to whole body: insights from cardiac and multiorgan assessments in HCM and beyond’ – Professor Betty Raman, Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Wellcome Career Development Award Fellow, Oxford University
12:10 – 12:25 – ‘AI-enabled human modelling and simulation against cardiovascular disease’ – Professor Blanca Rodriguez, Professor of Computational Medicine and Wellcome Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Sciences, Oxford University
12:25 – 12:40 – ‘Research and translation of AI enhancement for cardiovascular MR imaging’ – Professor Qiang Zhang, Associate Professor of AI in Cardiovascular Imaging and BHF Intermediate Research Fellow, Oxford University
ECR Contributions
12:40 – 12:50 ‘A phenotypic taxonomy of cardiovascular disease in UK Biobank’ – Dr Lara Curran, BHF CRE (funded) Clinical Research Fellow, Imperial
12:50 – 13:00 – ‘Image-based computational modelling of pulmonary hypertension’ – Dr Chloe Armour, BHF Immediate Research Fellow, Imperial
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch and Spotlight on Early Career Researchers: Poster Session
Afternoon Session – 14:00 – 18:30
BHF Imperial Centre of Research Excellence & BHF Cambridge CRE
14:00 – 14:05 – Welcome – Professor Barbara Casadei, Head of the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial & Professor Manuel Mayr, Co-Director of the BHF Imperial CRE & BHF Chair in Cardiovascular Proteomics, Imperial
Chairpersons: Professor Sanjay Prasad, Professor of Cardiomyopathy, Imperial & Professor Sanjay Sinha, Professor in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine, Cambridge University
14:05 – 14:20 – Overview and update of BHF CRE Theme 2 & Theme 3 – Professor Declan O’Regan, BHF Chair of Cardiovascular AI & Professor Anna Randi, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Imperial
14:20 – 14:35 – ‘Using multiomics to study the cardiovascular system in health and disease’ – Dr Michela Noseda, Associate Professor in Cardiovascular Science, Imperial
14:35 – 14:50 – ‘The proteomics landscape of dilated cardiomyopathy’– Dr Javier Barallobre-Barreiro, BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow, Imperial
14:50 – 15:05 – ‘Emerging technologies for studying cardiovascular diseases’ – Professor Julia Gorelik, Professor of Cellular Biophysics, Imperial
15:05 – 15:20 – ‘Therapy through the life course of dilated cardiomyopathy’ – Dr Brian Halliday, BHF Intermediate Clinical Research Fellow, Imperial
15:20 – 15:45 – Break – Refreshments
Chairpersons: Dr Chris Rhodes, BHF Senior Basic Science Research Fellowship, Imperial & Professor Martin Bennett, Director of the BHF Cambridge CRE
15:45 – 16:00 – Overview of the BHF Cambridge Centre of Research Excellence – Professor Martin Bennett, Director of the BHF Cambridge CRE, BHF Chair of Cardiovascular Sciences, Cambridge University
16:00 – 16:15 – ‘From the human heart atlas to stem cell models’ – Professor Sanjay Sinha, Professor in Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine, Cambridge University
16:15 – 16:30 – ‘Regenerating the damaged heart’ – Dr Catherine Wilson, Associate Professor, Cambridge University Dept Pharmacology, Cambridge University
16:30 – 16:45 – ‘Regulation of microtubule function in cardiovascular disease’ – Dr Xuan Li, BHF Senior Research Fellow, Cambridge University
16:45 – 17:00 – ‘Decoding cardiometabolic disease: placing metabolic flexibility at the core of pathogenesis’ – Dr Ana Vujic, BHF Intermediate Research Fellow, Cambridge University
17:00 – 17:05 – Poster Prize Giving – Professor Jane Mitchell, Dr Graeme Birdsey, Dr Blerina Ahmetaj-Shala
17:05 – 17:10 – Thank you and close – Professor Manuel Mayr & Professor Costanza Emanueli, Co-Directors BHF Imperial Centre of Research Excellence
17:15 – 18:30 – Drinks and Networking