Keynote Speakers
We are honoured to have the following keynote speakers present at our symposium
Prof. Hanjoong Jo
Emory University and Georgia Tech
Prof. Jo is Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Chair Professor and Associate Chair in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Tech, USA where he directs the Cardiovascular Mechanobiology, Therapeutics, and Nanomedicine Lab. He is also a Professor of Medicine at Emory and the Director of the Cardiovascular Biomechanics T32 Graduate Training Program at Emory and Georgia Tech. His lab studies how blood flow regulates vascular endothelial function, leading to atherosclerosis and aortic valve disease. His lab develops novel therapeutics by targeting flow-sensitive genes/proteins and nanotechnology for targeted therapeutics delivery to treat cardiovascular disease safely and effectively.
Prof. Blanca Rodriquez
University of Oxford
Prof. Rodriguez is Professor of Computational Medicine, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Computational Biology and Health Informatics Theme at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK.
Her scientific interest is in innovating in medical therapy development through a focus on human pathophysiology with modelling and simulation augmented by big data, machine learning and non-animal experimental methods. Our work has been featured as pioneering case studies for the ‘Digital Twin’ vision in cardiology, as well as In Silico Trials in drug development.
Invited Speakers
Meet our invited speakers who will be presenting at the 19th International Symposium on Biomechanics in Vascular Biology and Cardiovascular Disease:
Dr. Ali Akyildiz
Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Title lecture: Role of Mechanical Wall Stress in Coronary Atherosclerosis
Prof. Abdul Barakat
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Title lecture: Role of Endothelial Cell Shape and Orientational Order in Angiogenic Sprouting
Prof. Philippe Bijlenga
Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Germany
Title lecture: Navigating the Mist: Unveiling the Mysteries of Intracranial Aneurysm
Dr. Graeme Birdsey
Imperial College London, London, UK
Title lecture: Loss of ERG function contributes to lymphatic vessel malformations and primary lymphoedema
Dr. Michela Bozzetto
Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Milan, Italy
Title lecture: Do Vascular Wall Vibrations Play a Role in Vascular Disease? The Case of Cerebral Aneurysm and Arteriovenous Fistula
Dr. Caroline Cheng
UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Title lecture: to be announced
Dr. Michele Conti
University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Title lecture: Bioprinting of 3D vascular models: Biofabrication Procress and Preliminary Results using the FRESH technique
Prof. Nele Famaey
KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Title lecture: A multi-scale, multi-physics approach to understand and prevent cardiovascular maladaptation in the Ross procedure
Prof. Wouter Huberts
TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Title lecture: An Efficient uncertainty and sensitivity analysis approach to direct personalization and assess the credibility of digital human twins
Prof. Patrick McGarry
University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
Title lecture: Microstructually based biomedical odels for human thrombi
Dr. Ryan Pedrigi
University of Nebraska, Nebraska, USA
Title lecture: Normal Blood Flow plus Atorvastatin Promotes Regression of Unstable Plaques
Dr. Koen Reesink
Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, the Netherlands
Title lecture: The Maastricht acquisition platform for studying mechanisms of cell-matrix crosstalk (MAPEX): Emerging insights on ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm formation
Dr. Arno Roest
Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, Leiden, the Netherlands
Title lecture: The incremental value of coputational fluid dynaics (CFD) in single ventricle congenital heart disease
Prof. Peter Stone
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Title lecture: Widening the Lens for Risk-Stratification of High-Risk Plaques Likely to Cause Future MACE: From Invasive IVUS/OCT to Non-Invasive CCTA
Prof. Ellie Tzima
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Title lecture: Mechanisms of endothelial flow sensing
Prof. Suowen Xu
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China