Confirmed Symposium Speakers for World Congress 2016 - Buenos Aires

Abel, E. Dale, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
Anderson, Mark E., University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
Avkiran, Metin, King’s College London, London, UK
Bassani, Rosana, University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
Bernardi, Paolo, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
Blaxall, Burns, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Brum, Patricia, University of Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Carrier, Lucie, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
Chang, Ching-Pin, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA
Chin, Michael T., University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Clarke, Kieran, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Colecraft, Henry, Columbia University, New York, USA
Condorelli, Gianluigi, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy
Crottogini, Alberto, Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Davis, Jennifer, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Delbridge, Lea, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Del Monte, Federica, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Harvard, Boston, USA
Dibb, Katharine, Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, Manchester, UK
Donoso, Paulina, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Dos Santos, Pierre Domingues, Universite de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Dorn, Gerald, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Drosatos, Konstantinos, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Eaton, Philip, The Ryane Institute, London, UK
Eisner, David, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Elrod, John, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Engelhardt, Stefan, Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Munich, Germany
Ennis, Irene, Cardiovascular Research Center, La Plata, Argentina
Escobar, Ariel, University of California, Merced, California, USA
Fukuda, Keiichi, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Garcia, Silvia, Instituto de Investigaciones Médicas “A. Lanari”, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Giacca, Mauro, Int’l Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
Gironacci, Mariela, Instituto de Química y Fisicoquímica Biológicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gomez, Ana Maria, University of Paris, Paris, France
Gómez, Karina, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ingeniería Genética y Biología Molecular, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Gorelick, Julia, Imperial College – London, London, UK
Gotthardt, Michael, Max-Delbrük-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Gottlieb, Roberta, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA
Granzier, Henk, University of Arizona, Arizona, USA
Gustafsson, Asa, University of California-San Diego, USA
Hajjar, Roger J, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Hausenloy, Derek, Duke-NUS, Singapore
Heller Brown, Joan, University of California -San Diego, USA
Hill, Joseph A., UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Hool, Livia, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
Houser, Steven, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Howlett, Susan, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
Hsieh, Patrick, Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
Ieda, Masaki, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan
Kamp, Timothy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Kelly, Daniel, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery, Orlando, Florida, USA
Kirshenbaum, Lorrie, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Kitsis, Rick, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
Knollman, Bjorn, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Koch, Walter, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Komuro, Issei, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kranias, Litsa, University of Cincinnati – College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Krieger, Jose, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Lavandero, Sergio, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Laver, Derek, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Lederer, W. Jon, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Lefer, David, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Leri, Annarosa, Brigham and Women´s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Lewandowski, E. Doug, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
LeWinter, Martin, UVM Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Lopaschuk, Gary D., University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Lorenz, Kristina, University of Wurzbürg, Germany
Marber, Michael, King’s College, London, UK
Marks, Andrew, Columbia University, New York, USA
Mattiazzi, Alicia, Cardiovascular Research Center, La Plata, Argentina
McKinsey, Timothy, University of Colorado – Denver, Colorado, USA
McMullen, Julie, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
McNally, Elizabeth, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Medei, Emiliano, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mill, Jose Geraldo, Federal University Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil
Miura, Tetsuji, Sapporo Medical University, Japan
Molkentin, Jeffery, UC Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Murohara, Toyoaki, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Murphy, Tish, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
O’Connell, Timothy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Otsu, Kinya, King’s College, London, UK
Ouchi, Noriyuki, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
Paglini-Oliva, Patricia, National University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
Palomeque, Julieta, Cardiovascular Research Center, La Plata, Argentina
Pedrazzini, Thierry, Lausanne, Switzerland
Pepe, Salvatore, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Pérez, Gustavo, Cardiovascular Research Center, La Plata, Argentina
Pieske, Burkert, Medical University of Graz, Austria.
Ping, Peipei, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Porrello, Enzo, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia
Pozzan, Tulio, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Ralphe, J. Carter, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Regnier, Michael, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Ritchie, Rebecca, Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Robbins, Jeffrey, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Rockman, Howard, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Romero, Eder, Quilmes National University, Quilmes, Argentina
Sack, Michael, Center for Molecular Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Sadoshima, Junichi, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Saito, Yoshihiko, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan
Sandri, Marco, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy
Schulze, Christian, Columbia University, New York, USA
Schulz, Rainer, Justus Liebig University, Geissen, Germany
Scorrano, Luca, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Padua, Italy
Shah, Ajay, BHF Chair of Cardiology, King's College Hospital, London, UK
Shenoy, Sudha, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Sheng Song, Long, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Sipido, Karin, Katholieke Universiteit – Leuven, Belgium
Steenbergen, Charles, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Sussman, Mark, San Diego State University Heart Institute, San Diego, California, USA
Taegtmeyer, Heinrich, UT Health Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA
Thum, Thomas, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Tian, Rong, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Valdivia, Hector, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Valverde, Carlos A., Cardiovascular Research Center, La Plata, Argentina
van der Velden, Jolanda, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
van Dijk, Sabine J., Institute for Cardiovascular Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands
van Rooij, Eva, Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Vila Petroff, Martin, Cardiovascular Research Center, Argentina
Vondriska, Tom, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Wang, Yibin, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Weiss, James, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Xiao, Rui-Ping, Peking University, Beijing, China
Yang, Huangtian, Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences, Shanghai, China
Yaniv, Yael, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Zaccolo, Manuela, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Zhang, Jianyi (Jay), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Zhang, You Yi, Institute of Vascular Medicine, Beijing, China

ISHR Richard J. Bing Award 2016

Many thanks to member of the Bing Award Selection Committee who assisted with the initial review of applicants:

Judging Panel

• Panel Chair: David Eisner
• Lea Delbridge
• Tish Murphy
• Rodolphe Fischmeister
• Asa Gustafsson
• Issei Komuro
• Gary Lopaschuk
• Jolanda van der Velden
• Martin Vila Petroff

Finalists (in alphabetical order)

Kiyotake Ishikawa

Cardiovascular Research Center Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Intratracheal gene delivery of SERCA2a ameliorates chronic pulmonary hypertension in a large animal preclinical model




Victoria Mascetti

Dept of Surgery and British Heart Foundation Centre of Regenerative Medicine University of Cambridge

Human-mouse chimerism validates human stem cell pluripotency




Gaetano Santulli

Wu Center for Molecular Cardiology College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University

Distinct roles of intracellular calcium release channels in cardiac and vascular remodeling




Helena Viola

School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology The University of Western Australia

The role of the L-type Ca²⁺ channel in altered metabolic activity in a murine model of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy