Agenda
3rd Annual Meeting of Taiwan Circulation Research Society (TCRS) 2026 Stanford-Taiwan Symposium on Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
第三屆台灣循環研究學會國際研討會 暨 史丹佛-台灣幹細胞與再生醫學新知研討會
B1C Hall, IBMS, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Program Agenda (March 13, Friday) |
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| 07:30-08:20 | Registration |
Welcome & Opening |
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| 08:20-8:30 |
Dr. Huey-Kang Sytwu (司徒惠康院士, NHRI President, Stanford alumnus, AS Academician)
Dr. Yijuang Chern (陳儀莊所長, IBMS Director)
Dr. Joseph Wu (吳慶明院士, Stanford-CVI Director, US NAM Member)
Dr. Patrick Hsieh (謝清河理事長, TCRS President)
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Session 1
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| 08:30-08:50 |
Tzung Hsiai (UCLA)
Light-field imaging to uncover a continuum of mechanotransduction for vascular resilience
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| 08:50-09:10 |
Martin Young (U Alabama, Birmingham)
Adaptation of the maternal heart to pregnancy: There is so much more to learn
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| 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, NAS/NAM Member) Heart failure in diabetes – Roles of insulin resistance and mitochondrial dysfunction |
Group Photo, Networking & Coffee Break 10:00-10:30 |
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Session 2
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| 10:30-10:50 |
Francis Miller (Vanderbilt U, Nashville; Interim Editor of Circulation Research)
A role of extracellular histones in sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy
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| 10:50-11:00 | Joy Wu (Stanford) Crosstalk between the circulatory system and the skeleton |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Long-Sheng Song (U Iowa, Iowa City)
Multifaceted functions of Junctophilin-2 in the heart
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| 11:30-11:45 Short talk |
Wei Chen 陳緯 (GRC/AS, Taipei)
Biomaterials-Enabled Engineering of Lesional Macrophages in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Therapy
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| 11:45-12:00 Short talk |
Stephen Chang (Stanford)
A new genetic model organism for primate cardiovascular research
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Lunch
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Session 3
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| 13:30-14:00 |
Keynote Speech
Zoltan Arany (U Penn, Philadelphia; NAM Member) Insights into how SGLT2 inhibitors protect against heart failure
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| 14:00-14:20 |
Jay Zhang (U Alabama, Birmingham)
FoxM1 promotes cardiomyocyte regeneration in mammalian hearts with post-infarction LV remodeling
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| 14:20-14:40 | Hossein Ardehali (U Arizona, Tucson) Role of iron in cardiovascular disease |
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14:40-14:55
Short talk
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Chi-Ting Su 蘇祺婷 (NTU, Taipei)
TBP4 and the mitochondrial-vascular axis in AKI and CKD
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Poster Session-I (14:55-15:40) |
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Session 4
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15:40-16:10
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TCRS Life-time Achievement Award and Keynote Speech:
Edward Yeh (葉篤行院士, U Arkansas; AS Academician)
Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity: Mechanism and Prevention |
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Sumanth Prabhu (Washington U, St. Louis)
Alternatively activated macrophages drive parainflammation in heart failure
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| 16:30-16:45 Short talk |
Yen-Chun Ho 何彥君 (IBMS/AS, Taipei) Mechanistic regulation of cardiac valve ECM by developmental genes of the vascular valve |
| 16:45-17:00 Short talk |
Yuan-Yuan Cheng 鄭媛元 (TMU, Taipei)
Cardiomyocyte Reprogramming for Heart Regeneration
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Banquet (by invitation) |
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Program Agenda (March 14, Saturday) |
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| 07:30-08:00 | Registration |
Session 5
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| 08:00-08:20 | Sean Wu (Stanford) Leveraging developmental mechanisms to engineer cardiac regeneration |
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Changcheng Zhou (UC Riverside)
Like father, like daughter: Epigenetic inheritance of cardiovascular disease
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| 08:40-09:00 |
Tomasz Guzik (U Edinburgh; Editor-in-Chief, Cardiovascular Research)
Beyond the obvious: Insights into hypertension mechanisms and therapeutic targets for vascular and cardiac repair
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| 09:00-09:20 | Maria Kontaridis (Masonic Medical Research Institute, Utica, New York) Myeloid-specific regulation of RhoA in cardiac fibrosis |
Networking & Coffee Break 09:20-09:50 |
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Session 6
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| 09:50-10:20 |
Keynote Speech
Joseph Wu (Stanford; NAM Member) Stem cells, genomics, and AI for NAMs
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| 10:20-10:40 |
Gangjian Qin (SUStech, Shenzhen)
In-vivo tagging, isolation, and characterization of hepatocyte-derived small extracellular vesicles (sEV)Chamber specific expression and remodeling of cardiac sodium channels
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| 10:40-11:00 | Vesna Todorovic (Editor-in-Chief of Nature CVR, Berlin) Nature Cardiovascular Research: building on progress |
| 11:00-11:15 Short Talk |
Chih-Yu Yang (NYCU, Taipei)
Hemodialysis Vascular Access Complications: Causes, Detection, and Prediction |
Session 7: Meeting the Editors (11:15-12:00)
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Lunch Symposium (B1A) |
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Session 8
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| 13:30-14:00 | Keynote Speech Cheryl Anderson (UCSD, NAM Member) Dietary patterns and cardiometabolic risk: epidemiological insights and translational opportunities |
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Rong Tian (U Washington, Seattle)
Migration of Mitochondria Between Cells: Implications in Cardiovascular Health
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| 14:20-14:40 |
Barry London (U Iowa, Iowa City)
Chamber specific expression and remodeling of cardiac sodium channels
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| 14:40-15:00 |
Philip Tsao (Stanford)
Genetic and Epigenetic Influences on Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Disease
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Poster Session-II: presentations by finalists, judged by journal editors (15:00-15:40) |
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Session 9
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| 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 |
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Gabriele Schiattarella (Charite U Medical Center, Berlin)
Metabolic mechanisms of interorgan crosstalk in HFpEF: From pathogenesis to therapeutic opportunities
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Award Ceremony
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| 16:50-17:20 | TCRS best paper award for the year 2025 Poster Awards |
Closing |
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| 17:20-17:30 | Dr. Joseph Wu (Stanford) Dr. Patrick Hsieh (IBMS) |
Banquet (by invitation) |
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