Basic research in diseases and therapies effecting heart and blood vessels, including arteriosclerosis, coronary artery disease, heart valve disease, arrhythmia, heart failure, hypertension, disorders of the peripheral vascular system, and congenital heart disease.
Domenico Prattichizzo, University of Siena and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia , Siena, Italy speaks on "Robotics and Haptics: a Wearable Perspective".
Slobodan Vukicevic, Laboratory for Mineralized Tissues, Center of Excellence for Regenerative Medicine, Center for Translational and Clinical Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, CROATIA speaks on "Bone Morphogenetic Proteins: Growth and differentiation factors in regeneration of organs".
Giulio Pompilio, Scientific Director, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Biomedical, Surgical and Dental Science, University of Milano ITALY speaks on "Cell therapy for refractory angina: from bench to bedside".
Marinos Kallikourdis, Assistant Professor of Immunology and General Pathology, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy, and Group Leader, Adaptive Immunity Laboratory, Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Milan, Italy, speaks on "Roles of T cells in pregnancy and their consequences for cardiovascular and oncological pathology". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Denise HILFIKER-KLEINER, Dean of Research, Molecular Cardiology, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, MHH, Hannover, GERMANY speaks on "Pathophysiology of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy links Prolactin to the PAI-1/uPAR system: Modulation of NF-kB signaling and miR146a as therapeutic options". This movie has been recorded at ICGEB Trieste.
Paolo Golino, Department of Cardio-Thoracic and Respiratory Sciences, Section of Cardiology, Second University of Naples, Naples - ITALY speaks on "New Insights into the Pathophysiology of Acute Coronary Syndromes: From Molecular Basis to Clinical Manifestations". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Paul Riley, British Heart Foundation Professor of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford - UK speaks on "Developmental Programming of the Cardiac Lymphatics towards Heart Repair". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Andrew H. Baker Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences BHF, Cardiovascular Research Centre University of Glasgow, Glasgow - UK speaks on "Non-coding RNA in vascular pathophysiology". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Eva van Rooij, Development Biology and Stem Cell Research, Hubrecht Institute,Utrecht, THE NETHERLANDS speak on “Mending a broken heart ”. This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Fatima Mraiche, Pharmaceutical Sciences Section, College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Doha - QATAR speaks on "Osteopontin - Na /H exchanger isoform1 signalling in cardiac remodeling". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Francesco Loffredo, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA speaks on "GDF11: a novel regulator of cardiac aging and diastolic function?" This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Enzo Porrello Laboratory for Cardiac Regeneration, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA speaks on "A Developmental Blueprint for Cardiac Regeneration". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Neil Davies Cardiovascular Research Unit, Department of Surgery, UCT Health Faculty, Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA speaks on "Biomaterial based therapies for myocardial infarction induced heart failure". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Leon De Windt, Maastricht University, Department of Molecular Cardiology, Maastricht, THE NETHERLANDS speaks on "MicroRNAs regulating cardiac disease". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Guido Serini,University of Torino, Medical School, Cell Adhesion Dynamics, Turin, ITALY speaks on "Regulation of integrin adhesion receptors by conformation and traffic: implications for tumor angiogenesis". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Sandro De Falco, Angiogenesis LAB, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics “A. Buzzati Traverso", CNR, Naples, ITALY speaks on "PlGF/VEGFR-1 axis in pathological angiogenesis: hypoxic modulation and specific inhibition". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Elisabetta Dejana, IFOM, FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, ITALY, speaks on "Molecular mechanisms of vascular remodelling and their alterations in human vascular pathologies". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Giuseppe Danilo Norata, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan, Italy and Center for the Study of Atherosclerosis, SISA Bassini, Hospital Cinisello, ITALY speaks on "Immunity and atherosclerosis: emerging aspects". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Vincenzo Lionetti, Sector of Medicine Scuola Superiore S.Anna, Pisa, ITALY speaks on "Prometheus heart: new steps forward in the modulation of cardiac remodeling without stem cell transplantation". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Maurizio Capogrossi, Istituto Dermopatico della Immacolata, IDI, Patologia Vascolare, Rome, ITALY speaks on "HMGB1 and left ventricular remodeling after infarction". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB Trieste
Arndt Siekmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Laboratory for Cardiovascular Patterning, Muenster, GERMANY speaks on "Using zebrafish to study angiogenesis". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB
Daniele Catalucci, National Research Council (CNR), Milan, ITALY speaks on "Signaling pathways controlling myocardial function". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB
Gianluigi Condorelli, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy and University of California San Diego, USA, Department of Medicine, National Research Council, Rome, Italy speaks on "New genetic pathways controlling myocardial functions". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB
Vincenzo Vindigni, Clinica di Chirurgia Plastica e Ricostruttiva, Università di Padova, Padova, ITALY speaks on "New developments in tissue engineering of microvascular prostheses". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB
Sandro De Falco, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics "A. Buzzati-Traverso", CNR, Naples, ITALY speaks on "New strategies for the inhibition of VEGFs-dependent pathological angiogenesis". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB
Marco Presta, Department Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Brescia, ITALY speaks on "The pro-angiogenic cystine-knot protein rm/gremlin-1 is a novel VEGFR2 agonist". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB
Lorenzo Fassina, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Lab., Dept. of Electrical Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, ITALY speak on “Bone Tissue Engineering via biomaterials and physical stimuli”. A brief introduction to Tissue Engineering will be done, in particular about the concepts of biocompatibility, tensegrity, mechanotransduction, and physical stimuli for the cell culture in vitro. Afterthat, some recent own works of bone tissue engineering will be presented emphasizing the biological effects of physical stimuli.
Thierry Pedrazzini, Experimental Cardiology Unit Department of Medicine University of Lausanne Medical School Lausanne, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND speaks on "Importance of long noncoding RNAs in cardiac homeostasis". This seminar has been recorded by ICGEB