Conference

Highlights of the 2026 Taiwan Circulation Research Society (TCRS) & Stanford–Taiwan Joint Meeting.

2025-11-11

TCRS 2026 Speaker Highlights

  • 31 Internationally Renowned Speakers
    Leading scientists in cardiovascular, metabolic, renal, and stem cell/regeneration research, representing top institutions across the US, Europe, and Asia.

  • Distinguished Leadership Representation
    Featuring 5 members of the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and Academia Sinica, and 28 Deans, Chancellors, Directors, or Department Chairs from prestigious universities and research institutes in the US, Germany, Japan, the UK, and the Netherlands.

  • Global Editorial Leadership
    Includes 3 current or interim Editors-in-Chief (Nature Cardiovascular Research, Circulation Research, Cardiovascular Research) and 2 Associate Editors from Circulation and The Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI).

  • Scientific Leadership in the Field
    5 current or former AHA–BCVS Chairs, 1 former AHA–ATVB Chair, and multiple international leaders in cardiovascular and metabolic medicine.

  • Mentorship & Scientific Excellence
    As in 2025, major journal editors will serve as judges for the Young Investigator & Poster Awards, providing direct feedback and mentorship to early-career scientists.

       We warmly invite you to join us and engage with world-class scientists — witness the future of medical discovery at TCRS 2026!

       Registration Reminder: http://forms.gle/53N2XvnxFRfkcPVq8

       See you at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on March 13–14, 2026!

Program Agenda (March 13, Friday)
07:30-08:20 Registration

Welcome & Opening
08:20-8:30 Dr. Joseph Wu (吳慶明院士, Stanford-CVI Director, US NAM Member)
Dr. Patrick Hsieh (謝清河, TCRS President)

Session 1
Chairs: 鍾邦柱
08:30-08:50 Gabriele Schiattarella (Charite U Medical Center, Berlin)
Metabolic mechanisms of interorgan crosstalk in HFpEF: From pathogenesis to therapeutic opportunities
08:50-09:10 Martin Young (U Alabama, Birmingham)
Adaptation of the maternal heart to pregnancy: There is so much more to learn
09:10-09:30 Jing-Wei Xiong (Nanchang U, Nanchang)
Using chemical biology to approach heart regeneration
09:30-10:00 Keynote Speech
Dale Abel (UCLA, NAM Member)
Heart failure in diabetes – Roles of insulin resistance and mitochondrial dysfunction

Group Photo, Networking & Coffee Break 10:00-10:30

Session 2
Chairs: 陳儀莊
10:30-10:50 Tomasz Guzik (U Edinburgh; Editor-in-Chief, Cardiovascular Research)
Beyond the obvious: Insights into hypertension mechanisms and therapeutic targets for vascular and cardiac repair
10:50-11:10 Joy Wu (Stanford)
Crosstalk between the circulatory system and the skeleton
11:10-11:30 Ronglih Liao (Stanford)
11:30-11:45
Short talk		 Wei Chen陳緯 (GRC/AS, Taipei)
Biomaterials-Enabled Engineering of Lesional Macrophages in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Therapy
11:45-12:00
Short talk		 Chi-Ting Su蘇祺婷 (NTU, Taipei)
TBP4 and the mitochondrial-vascular axis in AKI and CKD

Lunch
TCRS General Member Meeting (B1C)
Lunch Symposium by Diamond Sponsors (B1A)

Session 3
Chairs: 李志浩
13:30-14:00 Keynote Speech
Zoltan Arany (U Penn, Philadelphia; NAM Member)
14:00-14:20 Jay Zhang (U Alabama, Birmingham)
Transcriptomics, chromatin structure, and modRNA in mammalian hearts regeneration
14:20-14:40 Hossein Ardehali (U Arizona, Tucson)
Role of iron in cardiovascular disease
14:40-15:00 Long-Sheng Song (U Iowa, Iowa City)
Multifaceted functions of Junctophilin-2 in the heart
15:00-15:20 Yuh-Shan Jou 周玉山 (IBMS/AS, Taipei)

Poster Session-I (15:20-16:00)

Session 4
Chairs: 謝清河
16:00-16:30 Life-time Award and Keynote Speech:
Edward Yeh (葉篤行院士, U Arkansas; AS Academician)
Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity: Mechanism and Prevention
16:30-16:50 Sumanth Prabhu (Washington U, St. Louis)
Alternatively activated macrophages drive parainflammation in heart failure
16:50-17:10 Francis Miller (Vanderbilt U, Nashville; Interim Editor of Circulation Research)
17:10-17:25
Short talk		 Yen-Chun Ho 何彥君 (IBMS/AS, Taipei)
Mechanistic regulation of cardiac valve ECM by developmental genes of the vascular valve
17:25-17:40
Short talk		 Yuan-Yuan Cheng 鄭媛元 (TMU, Taipei)
Cardiomyocyte Reprogramming for Heart Regeneration

Banquet (by invitation)

 

 

Program Agenda (March 14, Saturday)
07:30-08:00 Registration

Session 5
Chairs:
08:00-08:20 Sean Wu (Stanford)
Leveraging developmental mechanisms to engineer cardiac regeneration
08:20-08:40 Johannes Backs (U Heidelberg)
08:40-09:00 Tzung Hsiai (UCLA)
Light-field imaging to uncover a continuum of mechanotransduction for vascular resilience
09:00-09:20 Alex Chen (Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai)
Cathepsin L and pulmonary arterial hypertension
09:20-09:40 Maria Kontaridis (Masonic Medical Research Institute, Utica, New York)
Myeloid-specific regulation of RhoA in response to cardiac injury and cardiac fibrosis

Networking & Coffee Break 09:40-10:00

Session 6
Chairs:
10:00-10:30 Keynote Speech
Joseph Wu (Stanford; NAM Member)
10:30-10:50 Christine Mummery (Leiden U, Leiden)
Cardiovascular diseases and drugs: where are we with hiPSC models?
10:50-11:10 Xing-Li Wang (Fosun Pharma, Shanghai)
Challenges and Opportunity in Cardiovascular Drug Development
11:10-11:30 Vesna Todorovic (Editor-in-Chief of Nature CVR, Berlin)
Nature Cardiovascular Research: building on progress

Session 7: Meeting the Editors (11:30-12:10)
Chairs: Joseph Wu, Sean Wu
Editors: Vesna Todorovic, Tomasz Guzik, Francis Miller

Lunch Symposium (B1A)

Session 8
Chairs:
13:30-14:00 Keynote Speech
Cheryl Anderson (UCSD, NAM Member)
Dietary patterns and cardiometabolic risk: epidemiological insights and translational opportunities
14:00-14:20 Rong Tian (U Washington, Seattle)
Migration of Mitochondria Between Cells: Implications in Cardiovascular Health
14:20-14:40 Barry London (U Iowa, Iowa City)
14:40-15:00 Philip Tsao (Stanford)

Poster Session-II: presentations by finalists, judged by journal editors (15:00-15:40)

Session 9
Chairs:
15:40-16:10 Keynote Speech
Hiroshi Ohno (Riken, Yokohama)
Smoking affects gut microbiome and immune system to ameliorate ulcerative colitis
16:10-16:30 Sean Gibbons (ISB, Seattle)
Precision nutrition and the human gut microbiota
16:30-16:50 Changcheng Zhou (UC Riverside)
Like father, like daughter: Epigenetic inheritance of cardiovascular disease
16:50-17:10 Gangjian Qin (SUStech, Shengcheng)
In-vivo tagging, isolation, and characterization of hepatocyte-derived small extracellular vesicles (sEV)

Award Ceremony
Chairs:
17:10-17:40 TCRS best paper award for the year 2025
Poster Awards

Closing
17:40-17:45 Dr. Joseph Wu (Stanford)
Dr. Patrick Hsieh (IBMS)

Banquet (by invitation)

 

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