Program
2:00 PM
Arrival and registration
5:00 PM
Welcome mixer and reception
6:45 PM
Epidemiology and Clinical Features of Myocarditis
8:00 PM
Dinner
Foyer
Symposium 1
Innate and adaptive immune mechanisms in cardiac inflammation.
Francesco Paneni & Peter Rainer
8:30 AM
Immunological basis of cardiac fibrosis
9:00 AM
Immune cell dynamics in myocardial healing
9:30 AM
Cardiac macrophages in health and disease
10:00 AM
Short presentation selected from abstracts
10:15 AM
Coffee Break
Foyer
Symposium 2
Diagnosis of myocardial and pericardial inflammatory disease
Perry Elliott & Dörthe Schmidt
10:45 AM
EMB and heart-reactive autoantibodies for etiology-directed treatment
11:15 AM
Cardiovascular imaging: stratification of cardiac inflammatory diseases
11:45 AM
MicroRNAs for the detection of acute myocarditis
12:15 PM
Short presentation selected from abstracts
12:30 PM
Lunch and poster viewing
Congress Hall
Symposium 3
Inflammatory processes in ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease
2:00 PM
Viral infection and cardiac inflammation
2:30 PM
Microbiome and Myocarditis
3:00 PM
Immune cell crosstalk in myocarditis
3:30 PM
Short presentation selected from abstracts
3:45 PM
Coffee Break
Foyer
Symposium 4
Cardiotoxicity in checkpoint inhibitor therapy
4:15 PM
Immune checkpoint inhibition: Molecules and mechanism
4:45 PM
Cardio-Immuno-Oncology
5:15 PM
T cell costimulation blockade in heart failure
5:45 PM
Short presentation selected from abstracts
6:00 PM
Poster Presentation and Wine Tasting
8:00 PM
Dinner
Symposium 5
Therapy of cardiac inflammation
8:30 AM
Phenomics in dilated cardiomyopathies, from genes to inflammation
9:00 AM
T cells as therapeutic targets in cardiac inflammation
9:30 AM
Diagnosis and treatment of Covid-19-associated myocarditis
10:00 AM
Short presentation selected from abstracts
10:15 AM
Coffee Break
Foyer
Closing plenary
Therapeutic Targeting of Stromal Cells
10:45 AM
Immunotherapy as treatment option for heart failure?
11:30 AM
Targeting innate and adaptive immune responses in atherothrombosis