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“Algae in Your Throat? Scientists
Discover Algae Virus in Humans. Some
people harboring the virus have
subtle changes in cognitive function”
—Johns Hopkins Medicine
“American Researchers Discover
'Stupidity Virus‘”—Newsweek
“New 'Stupidity Virus' Discovered, Scientists
Say” —ABC News
“Found: The viral infection that makes nearly
HALF of us more stupid (and it lasts for
YEARS)” —Daily Mail
“No, Dummy, Scientists Didn't Find
A Stupidity Virus” —Forbes
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9:10 Heart Disease
9:30 Blood Vessel Function
10:10 BREAK
10:40 Cholesterol
11:20 Arrhythmias
Noon LUNCH BREAK
1:30 Heart Structure
2:10 Engineering Blood Vessels
2:30 BREAK
3:00 Engineering the
Cardiovascular System
3:40 Congenital Heart Defects
4:00 Closing/Surveys
4:30 RECEPTION
Tackling Heart Failure:
New Frontiers
David Kass, PhD
Can Your Gut Microbiota
Affect Your Blood Pressure?
Jennifer Pluznick, PhD
Vascular Adventures and
Innovations:
Connecting the Dots
Dan Berkowitz, MD
BREAK
Until 10:40am
Measuring Cholesterol:
From Man to Yeast and Back
Peter Espenshade, PhD
Raging Controversies in
Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
and Cholesterol Management
Roger Blumenthal, MD
Parsing a Pathway
Leading to Sudden Death
Mark Anderson, MD, PhD
Custom Cardiology: A
Virtual Heart for Every Patient
Natalia Trayanova, PhD
LUNCH
Until 1:30pm
How Does a Heart Know
It’s Big Enough?
DJ Pan, PhD
Lessons from Little
Hearts
Anthony Cammarato, PhD
Engineering Blood
Vessels
Sharon Gerecht, PhD
BREAK
Until 3pm
Regenerative Potential
of Heart Precursor Cells
Chulan Kwon, MS, PhD
Miniature Hearts: Large
Lessons from Small Models
Gordon Tomaselli, MD
Congenital Heart Disease:
Not Just for Kids Anymore
Jane Crosson, MD
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