SHVM 2026 :: Programme

9:00-17:00	Registration
9:00-11:00	SHVM Board Meeting (for board members only)
Professional Development Session Chairs: Kaitlyn Dennis (Oxford, UK) and Bellina Mushala (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
11:00-11:30	Meet the Editor Nature Reviews Cardiology, Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, JAMA Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research Gregory Lim, Lorrie Kirshenbaum, Barbara Casadei, Tomasz Guzik, Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
11:30-12:30	Speed dating (with lunch)
12:30-12:45	Break
12:45-13:00	Linda R. Peterson (St. Louis, MO, USA) Building collaborative careers in science
13:00-13:10	Norika Liu (Kumamoto, Japan)
13:10-13:20	Miranda Nabben (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
13:20-13:30	TBD
13:30-13:45	Discussion
Opening Session
14:00-14:15	Welcome from Organisers and SHVM President
14:15-15:05	Plenary Lecture Chair: Luc Bertrand (Brussels, Belgium) Masashi Yanagisawa (Tsukuba, Japan) Deciphering the mysteries of sleep: from fundamental neuroscience to real-world applications
15:05-15:35	Evening seminar (sponsored by Keyence) Chairs: Simon Sedej (Graz, Austria), Atsuko Okazaki (Tokyo, Japan) Satoru Takahashi (Tsukuba, Japan) TBD
15:35-16:00	Lecture Masaru Ishii (Osaka, Japan) TBD
16:00-16:30	Break
16:30-17:20	Plenary Lecture Chair: Julie Rennison (Cleveland, OH, USA) Barbara Casadei (London, UK) Inflammation, metabolism, and the future of cardiovascular medicine
18:00	Bus to the dinner venue
18:30	Dinner: The Landmark Square Osaka

Session 1 • Aging, Redox Signaling, and Metabolic Stress in the Cardiovascular System Chairs: Jin Han (Busan, Republic of Korea), Thomas Pulinilkunnil (Saint John, Canada)
8:30-8:55	Cholsoon Jang (Irvine, CA, USA) Tracing metabolic flux and nutrient exchange between organs during aging
8:55-9:20	Philip Eaton (London, UK) Redox signaling and protein oxidation in cardiovascular adaptation
9:20-9:45	Ichiro Manabe (Chiba, Japan) Immunometabolic regulation of inflammation and fibrosis in the heart
9:45-10:10	Geneviève Derumeaux (Paris, France) Advanced cardiac imaging to detect and monitor cardiac aging
10:10-10:22	Short talk selected from abstracts
10:22-10:42	Break
Session 2 • Metabolic Remodeling and Energetic Control in the Failing Heart Chairs: Keiji Kuba (Fukuoka, Japan), Jaetaek Kim (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
10:42-11:07	Junichi Sadoshima (Newark, NJ, USA) Autophagy and mitochondrial quality control in the heart
11:07-11:32	Christophe Beauloye (Brussels, Belgium) Mitochondrial dynamics and metabolic remodeling in cardiometabolic stress
11:32-11:57	Dunja Aksentijevic (London, UK) Metabolic imaging of the failing heart: from energy metabolism to therapeutic targets
11:57-12:10	Short talk selected from abstracts
12:20-13:20	Luncheon Seminar (sponsored by Shimadzu) Chair: Motohiro Nishida (Fukuoka, Japan) Takaaki Akaike (Miyagi, Japan) TBD
13:20-14:10	Plenary Lecture Chairs: Mahmoud Abdellatif (Graz, Austria), Mark Emile Pepin (Stanford, CA, USA) Guido Kroemer (Paris, France) Autophagy, cell death, and the biology of longevity
14:10-14:40	Break
14:40-15:10	Evening seminar (sponsored by Bristol Myers Squibb) Chairs: Takanori Yamaguchi (Saga, Japan) Yuichi Shimada (New York, NY, USA) TBD
15:10-16:10	Session 3 • The “William C. Stanley” Early Investigator Awards Chair: Linda R. Peterson (St. Louis, MO, USA), Martin Young (Birmingham, AL, USA) Four 15-min presentations from trainee awardees selected from submitted abstracts
16:10-18:10	Poster Session I
18:30	Bus to the dinner venue
19:00	Dinner: Jambo Tsuribune Tsurikichi

Session 4 • Organ-to-organ communication in aging Chair: Yasutomi Higashikuni (Osaka, Japan)
8:30-8:55	Jane Reznick (Cologne, Germany) Systemic metabolic coordination and inter-organ adaptation during aging
8:55-9:20	José Javier Fuster Ortuño (Madrid, Spain) Vascular inflammation and metabolic crosstalk in age-related diseases
9:20-9:45	Peter Liu (Ottawa, Canada) From mechanisms to medicine: translational strategies for the aging heart
9:45-10:10	2 Short talks selected from abstracts
10:10-10:30	Break
Session 5 • Inflammation, Fibrosis and Cardiac Remodelling Chairs: Rebecca Ritchie (Melbourne, Australia), Wataru Kimura (Kobe, Japan)
10:30-10:55	Hyun Kook (Gwangju, Republic of Korea) Molecular mechanisms linking cardiac stress to inflammation and fibrosis
10:55-11:20	Melanie Madhani (Birmingham, UK) Kinase signaling pathways driving cardiac inflammation and remodeling
11:20-11:45	Shujin Wang (Chongqing, China) Vacuolar H⁺-ATPase restrains cardiac aging through rewiring cardiolipin metabolism
11:45-12:10	2 Short talks selected from abstracts
12:10-13:10	Luncheon Seminar TBD
Session 6 • Sex differences in metabolism and CVD Chairs: Véronique A. Lacombe (Stillwater, OK, USA), Gabriele G. Schiattarella (Berlin, Germany)
13:10-13:35	Ylva Hellsten (Copenhagen, Denmark) Vascular and metabolic adaptations to exercise: insights into sex differences
13:35-14:00	Kenneth Walsh (Charlottesville, VA, USA) Sex chromosomes, clonal hematopoiesis, and cardiometabolic disease
14:00-14:25	Miranda Nabben (Maastricht, The Netherlands) TBD
14:25-14:50	2 Short talks selected from abstracts
15:15-15:45	Photo time and Break
15:45-16:35	Plenary Lecture TBD
16:35-18:35	Poster Session II
18:45	Bus to the dinner venue
19:30	Dinner: The Garden Oriental Osaka

8:30-9:30	"William C. Stanley" Award Lecture Chairs: E. Dale Abel (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Jan F.C. Glatz (Maastricht, The Netherlands) Terje Larsen (Tromsø, Norway) Fatty acid-induced loss of cardiac contractile efficiency in obesity
9:30-10:00	Break
Session 7 • Cutting-edge approaches to study and treat the aging heart Chairs: Masaki Ieda (Tokyo, Japan), Andrew Murray (Cambridge, UK)
10:00-10:25	Yibin Wang (Singapore) Systems biology and multi-omics approaches to decode cardiac aging
10:25-10:50	Joo-Mi Yi (Busan, Republic of Korea) Epigenetic modifications as therapeutic targets in cardiac aging
10:50-11:15	Li Qian (Chapel Hill, NC, USA) Cardiac reprogramming and regenerative strategies for the failing heart
11:15-11:40	2 Short talks selected from abstracts
11:40-12:00	Invitation to SHVM 2027
12:00-13:00	Lunch (take out style)
SHVM and Korea BCS Session 1 Chairs: Byung Jin Kim (Seoul, Republic of Korea), Natsuko Tsurudome (Osaka, Japan)
13:00-13:25	Adam Wende (Birmingham, AL, USA) Metabolic reprogramming and redox regulation in heart failure
13:25-13:50	Hun-Jun Park (Seoul, Republic of Korea) Spatiotemporal immune modulation to reverse post-MI adverse remodeling
13:50-14:15	Nobuyuki Takakura (Osaka, Japan) Endothelial cell niches and vascular–cardiac crosstalk in tissue homeostasis
14:15-14:40	2 Short talks selected from abstracts
14:40-15:00	Break
SHVM and Korea BCS Session 2 Chair: Hun-Jun Park (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
15:00-15:25	Luc Bertrand (Brussels, Belgium) Metabolic signaling and cardiac remodeling under stress conditions
15:25-15:50	Sung Woo Cho (Seoul, Republic of Korea) Inflammation and metabolic remodeling in cardiovascular aging
15:50-16:15	Yong-Joo Ah (Pohang, Republic of Korea) Molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial quality control in cardiac aging
16:15-16:40	2 Short talks selected from abstracts
16:40	Concluding Remarks
17:30	Final Highlight Event: The Public Plum Umeda Join the Chair’s Favorite Bar – An Unofficial Closing Night

Please see also the SHVM NCVC Satellite Symposium on 30 October