Program

Arrival and registration

Welcome mixer and reception

Opening plenary session

Congress Hall

Epidemiology and clinical features of myocarditis

Symposium 1

Inflammatory processes in ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease

Viral infection and cardiac inflammation

Microbiome and myocarditis

Immune cell crosstalk in myocarditis

Short talk 1

Rapid differentiation of regulatory CD4+ T cells in the infarcted myocardium blunts in situ inflammation

Dinner

Symposium 2

Innate and adaptive immune mechanisms in cardiac inflammation

Immunological basis of cardiac fibrosis

Immune cell dynamics in myocardial healing

Cardiac macrophages in health and disease

Short talk 2

Immunophenotypes and transcriptional signatures in the pathogenesis of myocarditis progression  to heart failure in humans

Coffee break

Congress Hall

Symposium 3

Diagnosis of myocardial and pericardial inflammatory disease

EMB and heart-reactive autoantibodies for etiology-directed treatment

Cardiovascular imaging: Stratification of cardiac inflammatory diseases

MicroRNAs for the detection of acute myocarditis

Short talk 3

Clonal hematopoiesis has prognostic value innon-ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

Lunch and poster viewing

Congress Hall

Short talks 4-9: Latest highlights in cardioimmunology

Placental inflammation leads to abnormal embryonic heart development

Lymphatic endothelial cell guidance of cardiac immune cell exit in experimental pressure-overload-induced dilated cardiomyopathy

Dynamics of monocyte-derived macrophage diversity in experimental myocardial infarction

β1-adrenergic receptor epitopes trigger CD4+ T cell responses in HLA-DRB13 myocardial infarction patients

T-cell derived IFN-γ fuels the regeneration to scarring progression after MI

Human macrophages are immunoprofiled by pericardial fluid small extracellular vesicles modulating lipid metabolism mechanisms

Coffee break

Symposium 4

Cardiotoxicity in checkpoint inhibitor therapy

Immune checkpoint inhibition: Molecules and mechanism

Cardio-immuno-oncology

T cell costimulation blockade in heart failure

Short talk 10

Unravelling the local immune landscape in atrial fibrillation: The role of tissue-resident memory T cells

Poster presentation and wine tasting

Dinner

Symposium 5

Therapy of cardiac inflammation

Phenomics in dilated cardiomyopathies, from genes to inflammation

T cells as therapeutic targets in cardiac inflammation

Diagnosis and treatment of Covid-19-associated myocarditis

Short talk 11

Lymph node fibroblastic reticular cells and sepsis: A new tale to cardiac biology

Coffee break

Foyer

Closing plenary session and round table discussion

Targeting innate and adaptive immune responses in atherothrombosis

Current and future treatment of cardiomyopathy

Round table discussion and conclusion of the meeting

Adjourn