The international conference “HEART WITH/OUT BORDERS– cardiovascular development, disease & repair”, will be held in Porto on 28-29th November 2014. This event has been conceived to nurture and promote fundamental and translational research in cardiovascular biology. A panel of renowned keynote speakers will help further our knowledge of the heart and allow bettering the development of regenerative/repair therapies that may be effectively translated into the clinic.
This first edition of HEART WITH/OUT BORDERS is particularly designed to encourage direct contact amongst young and senior researchers in a trans-disciplinary perspective that will clearly reflect the aspirations of three independent scientific societies, i.e. the Society of Cardiology (SPC), the Society of Developmental Biology (SPBD) and the Society for Stem Cells and Cell Therapies (SPCE-TC) which are co-responsible for organization of the event.
Your participation is essential to promote insight and animated discussion in a way that will inspire researchers, to discuss their experience and data amongst peers, to share and to learn from their counterparts in the international scientific arena.
We encourage all participants to submit an abstract to the conference to be part of the two poster presentation sessions.
A number of bursaries to cover the registration of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers willing to present their work at the symposium will be available for the SPC/SPBD/SPCE-TC fellows.
The conference will have the duration of two days and the closing session will also be the kick-off for an art-exhibition under the HE]ART[ WITH]OUT[ BORDERS main theme. More details for this initiative can be found at http://heart-without-borders.com/.
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
CHRISTINE MUMMERY | Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
EVA VAN ROOIJ | HUBRECHT Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
FELIX B. ENGEL | University Hospital Erlangen (Academia), Nephropathology, Experimental Renal and Cardiovascular Research, Erlangen, Germany
JOSE M. PÉREZ-POMARES | Andalusian Centre for Nanomedicine and Bioptechnology, University of Málaga, Málaga & CNIC-Madrid, Spain
SIGOLÈNE MEILHAC | Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Pasteur Institut, Paris, France
THOMAS BRAUN | Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany
IMPORTANT DEADLINES:
Abstract submission: October 27, 2014 (notification of acceptance on November 13)
Registration deadline: November 14, 2014