3rd Annual Meeting of Taiwan Circulation Research Society (TCRS) 2026 Stanford-Taiwan Symposium on Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine

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)

07:30-08:20 Registration

Welcome & Opening

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)

Session 1
Chairs: Bon-Chu Chung鍾邦柱, Huey-Kang Sytwu司徒惠康, Shih-Lei Lai賴時磊

08:30-08:50
Tzung Hsiai (UCLA)
Light-field imaging to uncover a continuum of mechanotransduction for vascular resilience 
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, NAS/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:  Jeng-Jiann Chiu裘正健,David Lundy, Tai-Ming Ko柯泰名

10:30-10:50
Francis Miller (Vanderbilt U, Nashville; Interim Editor of Circulation Research)
A role of extracellular histones in sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy
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
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
Stephen Chang (Stanford)
A new genetic model organism for primate cardiovascular research

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

Session 3
Chairs: Chih-Hao Lee李志浩, Ruey-Bing Yang楊瑞彬, Ling Wang王 寧

13:30-14:00
Keynote Speech
Zoltan Arany (U Penn, Philadelphia; NAM Member)
Insights into how SGLT2 inhibitors protect against heart failure
14:00-14:20
Jay Zhang (U Alabama, Birmingham)
FoxM1 promotes cardiomyocyte regeneration in mammalian hearts with post-infarction LV remodeling
14:20-14:40 Hossein Ardehali (U Arizona, Tucson)
Role of iron in cardiovascular disease
14:40-14:55
Short talk
Chi-Ting Su 蘇祺婷 (NTU, Taipei)
TBP4 and the mitochondrial-vascular axis in AKI and CKD

Poster Session-I (14:55-15:40)

Session 4
Chairs: Patrick Hsieh謝清河, Su-Yi Tasi蔡素宜, Wen-Pin Chen陳文彬

15:40-16:10
 
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
16:10-16:30
Sumanth Prabhu (Washington U, St. Louis)
Alternatively activated macrophages drive parainflammation in heart failure
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

Banquet (by invitation)

Program Agenda (March 14, Saturday)

07:30-08:00 Registration

Session 5
Chairs: Hung-I Yeh葉宏一, Ching-Feng Cheng鄭敬楓, Yu-Feng Hu胡瑜峰

08:00-08:20 Sean Wu (Stanford)
Leveraging developmental mechanisms to engineer cardiac regeneration
08:20-08:40
Changcheng Zhou (UC Riverside)
Like father, like daughter: Epigenetic inheritance of cardiovascular disease 
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
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

Session 6
Chairs: Yi-Heng Li李貽恆, Kai-Chien Yang楊鎧鍵, Yung-Hsin Yeh葉勇信

09:50-10:20
Keynote Speech
Joseph Wu (Stanford; NAM Member)
Stem cells, genomics, and AI for NAMs
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
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)
Chairs: Joseph Wu, Sean Wu, Ronglih Liao
Editors: Vesna Todorovic, Tomasz Guzik, Francis Miller

Lunch Symposium (B1A)

Session 8
Chairs: Shih-Ann Chen陳適安, Ping-Yen Liu劉秉彥, Cheng-Fu Kao高承福

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)
Chamber specific expression and remodeling of cardiac sodium channels
14:40-15:00
Philip Tsao (Stanford)
Genetic and Epigenetic Influences on Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Disease

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

Session 9
Chairs: Deng-Chyang Wu吳登強, Po-Hsun Huang黃柏勳, Yi-Cheng Chang張以承

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
Gabriele Schiattarella (Charite U Medical Center, Berlin)
Metabolic mechanisms of interorgan crosstalk in HFpEF: From pathogenesis to therapeutic opportunities

Award Ceremony
Chairs: Hua-Lin Wu吳華林, Ronglih Liao, Yu-Ting Yan顏裕庭

16:50-17:20 TCRS best paper award for the year 2025
Poster Awards

Closing

17:20-17:30 Dr. Joseph Wu (Stanford)
Dr. Patrick Hsieh (IBMS)

Banquet (by invitation)