Date: 28 June 2024 (Friday)
Welcome Dinner (by invitation)

Date: 29 June 2024 (Saturday)
Venue: Ballroom, 7/F, Cordis, Hong Kong, 555 Shanghai Street, Mong Kok, Hong Kong

Registration
Opening Session
08:45-08:50	Welcome Speech Kathy Lui Co-organizer, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Session 1A – Development and Disease in the Vascular Tree Moderator: Xiaoqiang Yao
08:50-09:20	Keynote Speaker: Bin Zhou (CAS, Shanghai) Topic: Coronary collateral arteries formation by assembly of cardiac capillaries
09:20-09:50	Keynote Speaker: Yibin Wang (NUS, Singapore) Topic: New Metabolism Targeted Therapies for Heart Failure
09:50-10:20	Invited Speaker: Ding Ai (Tianjin Medical University, China) Topic: Yes-Associated Protein Targets the Transforming Growth Factor β Pathway to Mediate High-Fat/High-Sucrose Diet-induced Arterial Stiffness
10:20-10:35	Coffee Break
Session 1B – Development and Disease in the Vascular Tree Moderator: Bin Zhou
10:35-11:05	Invited Speaker: Dan Meng (Fudan University) Topic: Transcription Factor BACH1 and Cardiovascular Diseases
11:05-11:35	Keynote Speaker: Michael Potente (Max-Planck, Germany) Lecture sponsored by CUHK School of Biomedical Sciences Topic: Regulation of vascular development by stress response pathways
11:35-12:05	Invited Speaker: Kathy Lui (CUHK) Topic: m6A in vascular health and disease
12:05-12:10	Photo-taking
12:10-13:30	Lunch + Poster Presentations
Session 2 – Therapeutic Implications of Cardiovascular Research Moderator: Jack Wong
13:30-14:00	Keynote Speaker: Roger Foo (NUS, Singapore) Topic: Going down and up the hill with cardiomyocyte cell states
14:00-14:30	Invited Speaker: Jonathan Choi (CUHK) Topic: Non-cationic bionanomaterials for delivery to challenging diseased sites
14:30-15:00	Invited Speaker: Ben Shihlei Lai (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Topic: Cardio-immune interaction in heart regeneration revealed by comparative analyses in fish models
15:00-15:30	Invited Speaker: Randolph Wong (CUHK) Topic: Advances in the management of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection
15:30-15:45	Coffee Break
Session 3 – Regulation of Vascular Disease and Repair Moderator: Susan Leung
15:45-16:15	Invited Speaker: Hong Yu (Zhejiang University) Topic: Nano-Hydroxyapatite Accelerates Vascular Calcification
16:15-16:45	Invited Speaker: Rio Sugimura (HKU) Topic: Human peri-implantation embryo models and its application to novel vascularized organoids
16:45-17:15	Invited Speaker: Xiaoyu Tian (CUHK) Topic: Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase 4 Regulates Endothelial Cell Function
17:15-17:25	Presentation of Best Poster Awards
17:25-17:30	Concluding Remarks Bin Zhou Co-organizer, Chinese Academy of Sciences
17:30	End of Summit
18:00	Conference Dinner (by invitation)