Venue: Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA) Lecture Theatre 2, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Day One: 20^th March, 2026 (Fri)

Registration
Opening Session
09:00-09:20	Welcome Speech Dennis Lo CUHK President, ASHK President, Croucher Trustee Opening Remarks David Foster Executive Director, Croucher Foundation Kathy Lui Co-chair, Croucher Scholar, YASHK founding member
09:20-09:30	Photo-taking
Session 1 – Cutting-edge technologies
09:30-09:55	Bin Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Topic: Tracing the origins of de novo coronary collateral formation in cardiac repair
09:55-10:20	William Pu (Basic and Translational Cardiovascular Research, Harvard Medical School) Topic: iPSC models of heart development and disease
10:20-10:45	Qingbo Xu (Department of Cardiology, Zhejiang University Medical School) Topic: Tracing CD34+ Cells in Cardiovascular Diseases
Session 2 – Vascular disease
10:50-11:15	Stefanie Dimmeler (Institute for Cardiovascular Regeneration, University of Frankfurt) Topic: Senescence and Vascular Crosstalk as Drivers and Therapeutic Targets of Cardiac Aging
11:15-11:40	Wei Kong (Peking University) Topic: Novel players in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
11:40-12:05	Xiao Yu Tian (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Topic: Cardiac endothelial cell dysfunction during cardiometabolic heart failure
12:05-14:00	Lunch
Session 3 – Cardiac disease
14:00-14:25	Thomas Braun (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research) Topic: Regulation of heart development and disease by RNA-binding proteins
14:25-14:50	Yibin Wang (Programme in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders, Duke-NUS Medical School) Topic: Post-transcriptional Regulation in Cardiac Development and Diseases: From RNA Splicing to Translation
14:50-15:15	Kathy Lui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Topic: Immunoregulation of heart growth, repair, and regeneration
15:15-15:40	Yu Nie (National Center for Cardiovascular Disease, Peking Union Medical College) Topic: Uncovering Regenerative Targets for Cardiac Repair
15:40-16:05	Dazhi Wang (Heart Institute, University of South Florida) Topic: Heart development, regeneration and cardiovascular disease
16:05-16:20	Refreshment
16:20-16:45	Sean M. Wu (Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University) Topic: Heart Development and Disease: Stem Cells, Engineered Tissues, and Artificial Intelligence
16:45-17:10	Hui Zhao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Topic: Unveiling function of thyroid hormone and its receptor in cardiac regeneration using zebrafish models
17:10-17:35	Li Zhang (Shanghai Jiaotong University) Topic: Nrf3 in the Coronary Heart Disease Continuum: A Novel Therapeutic Target
17:35-18:00	Kathryn Cheah (The University of Hong Kong)
18:00-18:20	CUHK Campus Tour
18:30	Conference Dinner

Day Two: 21^st March, 2026 (Sat)

08:40-09:30	Registration
08:40-09:30	Session 4 – Young investigator award presentation
Session 5 – Vascular disease across organs
09:35-10:00	Senior Editor from Science
10:00-10:25	Ralf H. Adams (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine) Topic: Heterogeneity and functional specialization of blood vessels in bone
10:25-10:50	Jack Wai Ho Tang (Hong Kong Metropolitan University) Topic: Age-Associated Tet2 Mutation Impairs Platelet Function
10:50-11:15	Hellmut G. Augustin (Department of Vascular Biology, Heidelberg University) Topic: Angiocrine and pericrine signaling in the liver
11:15-11:40	Owen Ko (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Topic: Towards anti-aging-based therapeutics for treating cerebrovascular disorders
11:40-12:05	Nicola Smart (Department of Physiology, University of Oxford) Topic: Delineating mechanisms of human coronary artery disease
12:05-12:30	Ronald Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Topic: Pharmacogenomics and pharmacokinetics of aspirin in preeclampsia prevention
12:30-12:35	Prize Presentation
12:35-12:40	Concluding Remarks Bin Zhou Co-chair
12:45-14:00	Lunch
14:00-17:30	Hiking
18:00	Dinner