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
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(For trainees participate in poster competition)
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. Joseph Wu (吳慶明院士, Stanford-CVI Director, US NAM Member) Dr. Patrick Hsieh (謝清河, TCRS President) |
Session 1
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| 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) |
| 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) Hea rt 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 |
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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| 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
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| 11:45-12:00 Short talk |
Chi-Ting Su蘇祺婷 (NTU, Taipei)
TBP4 and the mitochondrial-vascular axis in AKI and CKD
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| 12:00-12:15 Short talk |
Steve 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) |
| 14:00-14:20 |
Jay Zhang (U Alabama, Birmingham)
Transcriptomics, chromatin structure, and modRNA in mammalian hearts regeneration
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| 14:20-14:40 | Hossein Ardehali (U Arizona, Tucson) Role of iron in cardiovascular disease |
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Long-Sheng Song (U Iowa, Iowa City)
Multifaceted functions of Junctophilin-2 in the heart
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| 15:00-15:20 | Yuh-Shan Jou 周玉山 (IBMS/AS, Taipei) |
Poster Session-I (15:20-16:00) |
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Session 4
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| 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
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| 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
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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 |
| 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 |
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Alex Chen (Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai)
Cathepsin L and pulmonary arterial hypertension
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| 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 |
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Session 6
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| 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 |
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Vesna Todorovic (Editor-in-Chief of Nature CVR, Berlin)
Nature Cardiovascular Research: building on progress
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Session 7: Meeting the Editors (11:30-12:10)
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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) |
| 14:40-15:00 | Philip Tsao (Stanford) |
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 |
| 16:30-16:50 | Changcheng Zhou (UC Riverside) Like father, like daughter: Epigenetic inheritance of cardiovascular disease |
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Gangjian Qin (SUStech, Shengcheng)
In-vivo tagging, isolation, and characterization of hepatocyte-derived small extracellular vesicles (sEV)
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Award Ceremony
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| 17:10-17:40 | TCRS best paper award for the year 2025 Poster Awards |
Closing |
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| 17:40-17:45 | Dr. Joseph Wu (Stanford) Dr. Patrick Hsieh (IBMS) |
Banquet (by invitation) |
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