H3 Symposium: Cellular approaches for cardiac repair: a physiological perspective 2014

Key Topics

• Stem cells and the heart: where do the future therapies lie for cardiac regeneration?
• Challenging the view that stem cell-derived cardiac myocytes will provide a solution for the much needed supply of human cardiac cells for in vitro studies
• Approaches for cardiac repair
  • Together with pluripotent stem cells, can existing progenitor cells in the adult heart be reawakened to promote cardiac repair?
  • Which cell type represent an ideal target
  • Can non-contractile cardiac fibroblasts become cardiac myocytes?
• Stem cells in culture and how they might be manipulated to aid regeneration, through to the transition from the bench to the bedside

Who should Attend

Attendees involved in basic cardiac research and clinical cardiac regenerative therapies.