2017 CSATVB Program
Vancouver Convention Centre

 

Sunday October 22

14:00-15:30

VCC Room 202-203

 

Jean Davignon Symposium: Cardiovascular Health and Disease

 

• Resveratrol and Cardiovascular Disease

Jason Dyck, University of Alberta

 

• Endothelial cell-cardiomyocyte cross talk in providing fatty acids to the diabetic heart

Brian Rodrigues, University of British Columbia

 

• CSATVB Scientific Excellence Award Lecture: Genetics as a window on new therapies for atherosclerosis

Rob Hegele, Western University

 

Monday, October 23

14:00-15:30

VCC Room 202-203

 

Symposium: Vascular Injury, Inflammation, and Repair

 

• Non-coding RNA regulation of lipid metabolism and atherosclerosis

Carlos Fernandez-Hernando, Yale University School of Medicine

 

• Cellular senescence and aortic wall catastrophes

Geoff Pickering, Western University

 

Short Trainee talks