Science News for BCVS 2015 Scientific Sessions

Welcome to Science News coverage for BCVS 2015 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside.

2015 BCVS Final Program (PDF)

Selected Science for Monday, July 13

Welcome to BCVS 2015 - Program Highlights

Mark Creager, MD, Anthony Rosenzweig, MD, Asa Gustafsson, PhD, and David Lefer, PhD

Exercise as Medicine: New Approaches to Understanding Why It Works in Heart Failure

Joseph Libonati, PhD, FAHA, and Glenn Rowe, PhD

Session 4: Regulation of Mitochondrial Function and Metabolism
- Presentation: Epigenetic Modification and Metabolism
  Rong Tian, MD, PhD, FAHA
Session 5: Cellular Quality Control Mechanisms
- Presentation: Proteotoxicity and Heart Failure
  Jeffrey Robbins, PhD, FAHA
Session 6: The Mitochondrial Calcium Microdomain in Cardiac Function and Disease
- Presentation: Mitochondrial Malfunction in Heart Failure and Sudden Death
  Brian O’Rourke, PhD
Session 7: Sources of New Myocytes in Diseased Hearts
- Video: Sources of New Myocytes in Diseased Hearts
  Ronglih Liao, PhD, FAHA and Mark Sussman, PhD, FAHA

Session 9: Aging and Heart Failure
- Presentation: A Tangled Web: Is Heart Failure Alzheimer’s of the Heart?
  Federica del Monte, MD, PhD
Session 10: Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award Finalists
- Videos and Abstracts: Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award Finalists
  Johannes Backs, Prabhakara R. Nagareddy, Kunhua Song
Session 11: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
- Video: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
- Presentation: Multiple Etiologies and Approaches to HFpEF
  David Kass, MD, FAHA
- Presentation: Diet-induced Diastolic Dysfunction
  Wilson Colucci, MD, FACC

Winner: Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award
Session 13: Exploring the Functional Importance of Non-myocytes in Heart Failure
- Presentation: What Makes a Myofibroblast?
  Jennifer Davis, PhD
Session 14: Genetics of Cardiac Development and Disease
- Video: Genetics of Cardiac Development and Disease
  Sakthivel Sadayappan, PhD, FAHA and Yibin Wang, PhD, FAHA
- Presentation: Big Imaging-Genetic Data to Understand Big Hearts
  Stuart Cook, MD, PhD

What We Learned at BCVS 2015

Åsa Gustafsson, PhD, David Lefer, PhD, Anthony Rosenzweig, MD