Sunday September 6, 2026

14:45-17:00

Opening and Plenary session I

14:45-15:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks

15:00-15:40

Kristy Red-Horse

15:40-16:20

Taija Makinen – The EMBO Keynote Lecture

16:20-17:00

Ralf Adams

17:00-19:00

Welcome Reception

Monday September 7, 2026

9:00-10:20

Plenary session II

9:00-9:40

Tohru Minamino

9:40-10:20

Stefania Nicoli

10:20-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-12:45

Parallel Session 1:

Mechanisms driving atherosclerosis

Parallel Session 2:

Endothelial cell metabolism

Parallel Session 3:

Programming endothelial cell identity

Parallel Session 4:

Immune cell trafficking through the vasculature

10:45-11:15

Peter Psaltis

Michael Potente

Graeme Birdsey

Michael Hickey

11:15-11:45

Goo Taeg Oh

Katrien De Bock

Karen Hirschi

Jaap van Buul

11:45-12:15

Jeff Kroon

Bilal Sheikh

Miguel Torres

Andrew Murphy

12:15-12:30

Denuja Karunakaran

Isidora Mitric

Ana Angulo-Urarte

Lisa Ebert

12:30-12:45

Kathy Lui

Laura Shankman

Shikha Pachauri

Yi Fan

12:45-13:15

Lunch

13:15-14:15

Poster Session

14:15-16:15

Parallel Session 5:

Non-atherosclerotic diseases of vasculature

Parallel Session 6:

Endothelial cell responses to mechanical signals

Parallel Session 7:

Endothelial cell heterogeneity

Parallel session 8:

Vascular anomalies

14:15-14:45

Jason Kovacic

Julien Vermot

Joanna Kalucka

Mariona Graupera

14:45-15:15

Yoshikazu Nakaoka

Li-Kun Phng

Yoshiaki Kubota

Joyce Bischoff

15:15-15:45

Kristen Bubb

Maike Frye

Tatiana Petrova

Claudio Franco

15:45-16:00

Jaideep Singh

Swarnadip Ghosh

Kahli Jones

Paivi Ojala

16:00-16:15

Larisa Labzin

Bo Wei Ou

Qi Chen

Caitlin Francis

16:15-16:40

Coffee Break

16:40-18:00

Plenary Session III – EVBO Award Lectures

Chair: Karina Yaniv

16:40-17:20

Kari Alitalo

17:20-18:00

Serena Zachigna

Tuesday September 8, 2026

7:30-8:30

AVBS AGM

9:00-10:20

Plenary session IV

9:00-9:40

Guillermo Oliver

9:40-10:20

Gwen Randolph

10:20-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-12:45

Parallel Session 9: Innovative approaches for imaging and treatment of cardiovascular disease

Parallel session 10:

Meningeal lymphatics

Parallel Session 11:

Organotypic vascular specialisation

Parallel Session 12:

The genetic basis of lymphatic vascular disorders

10:45-11:15

Karlheinz Peter

Jean-Leon Thomas

Susan Quaggin

Pia Ostergaard

11:15-11:45

Jiawen Li

Kathleen Caron

Ondine Cleaver

TBC

11:45-12:15

Yabing Chen

Jony Kipnis

Bong Ihn Koh

Sarah Shepphard

12:15-12:30

Marit Westerterp

Ka Ka Ting

Toby Brown

Tamara Vujic

12:30-12:45

Emma Solly

Rashad Hussain

Margherita Zamberlan

Lola Zerbib

12:45-13:15

Lunch

13:15-14:15

Poster Session

14:15-16:15

Parallel Session 13:

The ocular vasculature in health and disease

Parallel session 14:

Neuroinflammation

Parallel Session 15:

Lymphatic vascular development

Parallel Session 16:

Tumour vasculature

14:15-14:45

Junyeop Lee

Justin Rustenhoven

Karina Yaniv

Tim Padera

14:45-15:15

Xuri Li

Leon Smyth

Brant Weinstein

Kyoko Hida

15:15-15:45

Erica Fletcher

Connie Wong

Kaska Koltowska

You Mie Lee

15:45-16:00

Sally Dreger

Mariaelena Valentino

Connor Bayley-Jones

Takashi Minami

16:00-16:15

Emily Warren

Jerry Wang

Jonathan Astin

Kay Myo Min

16:15-16:40

Coffee Break

16:40-18:00

Plenary Session V

16:40-17:20

Miikka Vikkula

17:20-18:00

Luisa Iruela-Arispe

Wednesday September 9, 2026

7:15-8:15

Fun run/walk (pre-run/walk stretching to begin from 7:15am on Regattas Lawn)

9:00-10:20

Plenary session VI

9:00-9:40

Paul Kubes

9:40-10:20

Anne Eichmann

10:20-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-12:45

Parallel Session 17:

Cardiovascular disease and cancer

Parallel Session 18:

Mechanotransduction     in the vasculature

Parallel Session 19:

Vascular engineering and regeneration

Parallel Session 20: EVBO Awards

10:45-11:15

Katrina Colafella

Ellie Tzima

Chris Hughes

11:15-11:45

Rebecca Deaton

Charles Cox

Koichi Nishiyama

11:45-12:15

David Gau

Martin Schwartz

Philip Hogg

12:15-12:30

Kazuhide Okuda

Ignacio Benedicto

Avalon Johnson

12:30-12:45

Sanuri Liyanage

Emily Trimm

Tomasz Nawara

12:45-13:15

Lunch

13:15-14:15

IVBM Business Meeting

14:15-16:15

Parallel session 21:

Atherosclerosis and thrombosis

Parallel session 22:

Lymphatic vessels and immunity

Parallel session 23:

Using advanced technologies to understand vascular biology

Parallel session 24:

Hot topics

14:15-14:45

Gemma Figtree

TBC

Pilhan Kim

TBC

14:45-15:15

Freda Passam

Cornelia Halin

Mat Francois

TBC

15:15-15:45

Shaun Jackson

Hong Chen

Rui Benedito

TBC

15:45-16:00

Blake Cochran

Tsutomu Kume

Julien Guemri

Changcheng Zhou

16:00-16:15

Amy Baxter

Cameron Bastow

Rae Farnsworth

Xiao-Yu Tian

16:15-16:40

Coffee Break

16:40-18:00

Plenary Session VII

16:40-17:20

Didier Stainier

17:20-18:00

Bin Zhou

Conference Dinner

Thursday September 10, 2026

9:00-11:00

Parallel session 25:

Towards novel therapeutics for cardiovascular diseases

Parallel session 26:

The neurovascular interface

Parallel session 27:

Signalling pathways driving vascular development, maturation and function

Parallel session 28:

Endothelial cell junctions in development and inflammation

9:00-9:30

Natalie Trevaskis

Mei Xin

Ferdinand le Noble

Anne Lagendijk

9:30-10:00

Kyung-Sun Heo

Jiu-Lin Du

Tetsuro Watabe

Pipsa Saharinen

10:00-10:30

Masanori Nakayama

Christiana Ruhrberg

Jan Kitajewski

Mauricio Lillo

10:30-10:45

William Studley

Ethan Winkler

Yoo-wook Kwon

Lien Mari Reolizo

10:45-11:00

Mitchell Moon

Oguzhan Baltaci

Christie Kang

Keerthana Ganesh

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-13:15

Plenary Session VIII and Closing

11:30-12:10

Gabriele Bergers

12:10-12:50

Ben Hogan

12:50-13:15

Closing Remarks