All times Central European Time
Monday, October 20, 2025
Whole Day
7:00 PM
Arrival in Munich
Speaker's Dinner
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Arrival & Registration at Münchner Künstlerhaus
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Christian Weber
09:45 AM – 10:15 AM
Triantafyllos Chavakis | UKD Dresden, Germany | Innate Immunity
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Laurent Yvan-Charvet | Inserm U1065 - Institut C3M Nice, France | Immunometabolism
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM
COFFEE BREAK
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Alma Zernecke | UKW Würzburg, Germany | Macrophages in atherosclerosis
11:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Florian Leuschner | UKHD Heidelberg, Germany | Insights into monocyte accumulation after myocardial infarction
12:15 PM – 12:45 PM
Maria Grandoch | HHU Düsseldorf, Germany | Chronic colitis & HSPC reprogramming in atherosclerosis
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Lunch
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM
Sikander Hayat | RWTH Aachen, Germany | Novel insights into (peri)vascular inflammation based on single cell & spatial technologies
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Donato Santovito | LMU Munich, Germany | microRNA in atherosclerosis: emerging functional paradigms
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM
Maliheh Nazari Jahantigh | LMU Munich, Germany | The Role of let-7b in Atherosclerosis
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM
COFFEE BREAK
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Karin Ziegler | TU Munich, Germany | Neuro-brain axis in cardiac disease
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Jessica Wagner | LMU Munich, Germany | Amyloids in vascular aging and atherosclerosis
4:45 PM – 5:15PM
Cameron Mc Alpine| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA| Sleep and CVD
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Networking Reception and Poster Session
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Arrival and Coffee
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Kathryn Moore | NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA | Cancer and CVD comorbidity
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Maria Rohm | Helmholtz Institute Munich, Germany | Cancer cachexia
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
SHORT TALKS
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Esther Lutgens | Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, USA | Immune checkpoint regulators
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Christoph Binder | Medical University Vienna, Austria | B cells and antibody responses in atherosclerosis
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM
SHORT TALKS
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Stefanie Dimmeler | JWGU Frankfurt, Germany | Aging & CVD
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Konstantin Stark | LMU Munich, Germany | Inflammation in coronary artery disease – mechanistic and clinical implications from multiOmics studies
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Ziad Mallat | University of Cambridge, UK| Immune modulation by low dose IL2 in CAD patients
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Vesna Todorovic | Springer Nature, Berlin, Germany | Editor´s perspective: Publishing in Nature Cardiovascular Research
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Poster Awards & Closing Remarks
Monday, October 20, 2025
Whole Day
7:00 PM
Arrival in Munich
Speaker's Dinner
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
Arrival & Registration at Münchner Künstlerhaus
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks by Christian Weber
09:45 AM – 10:15 AM
Triantafyllos Chavakis | UKD Dresden, Germany | Innate Immunity
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Laurent Yvan-Charvet | Inserm U1065 - Institut C3M Nice, France | Immunometabolism
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM
COFFEE BREAK
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Alma Zernecke | UKW Würzburg, Germany | Macrophages in atherosclerosis
11:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Florian Leuschner | UKHD Heidelberg, Germany | Insights into monocyte accumulation after myocardial infarction
12:15 PM – 12:45 PM
Maria Grandoch | HHU Düsseldorf, Germany | Chronic colitis & HSPC reprogramming in atherosclerosis
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
Lunch
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM
Sikander Hayat | RWTH Aachen, Germany | Novel insights into (peri)vascular inflammation based on single cell & spatial technologies
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Donato Santovito | LMU Munich, Germany | microRNA in atherosclerosis: emerging functional paradigms
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM
Maliheh Nazari Jahantigh | LMU Munich, Germany | The Role of let-7b in Atherosclerosis
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM
COFFEE BREAK
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Karin Ziegler | TU Munich, Germany | Neuro-brain axis in cardiac disease
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Jessica Wagner | LMU Munich, Germany | Amyloids in vascular aging and atherosclerosis
4:45 PM – 5:15PM
Cameron Mc Alpine| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA| Sleep and CVD
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Networking Reception and Poster Session
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Arrival and Coffee
09:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Kathryn Moore | NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, USA | Cancer and CVD comorbidity
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Maria Rohm | Helmholtz Institute Munich, Germany | Cancer cachexia
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
SHORT TALKS
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Esther Lutgens | Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota, USA | Immune checkpoint regulators
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Christoph Binder | Medical University Vienna, Austria | B cells and antibody responses in atherosclerosis
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM
SHORT TALKS
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
Stefanie Dimmeler | JWGU Frankfurt, Germany | Aging & CVD
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Konstantin Stark | LMU Munich, Germany | Inflammation in coronary artery disease – mechanistic and clinical implications from multiOmics studies
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Ziad Mallat | University of Cambridge, UK| Immune modulation by low dose IL2 in CAD patients
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Vesna Todorovic | Springer Nature, Berlin, Germany | Editor´s perspective: Publishing in Nature Cardiovascular Research
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Poster Awards & Closing Remarks