Trajectories to Heart Failure: Immunometabolic Mechanisms (Q1)
February 10-13, 2025  | Keystone Resort, Keystone, CO, United States
Joseph A. Hill, Geneviève Derumeaux, Chiara Giannarelli and Gabriele G Schiattarella
Scholarship Deadline: Dec. 6, 2024 | Abstract Deadline: Jan. 22, 2025 | Early Registration Deadline: Dec. 19, 2024
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 4 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Monday, February 10, 2025
4:00–8:00 PM Registration Longs Peak Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Longs Peak Foyer
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Quandary Peak
8:00–9:00 AM Welcome and Keynote Address (Joint) Grays/Longs Peak
  * Joseph A. Hill, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
 
  * María Mittelbrunn, Molecular Biology Center, CSIC
 
  Kathryn J Moore, New York University Medical Center
Immunometabolism in Cardiovascular Disease
 
9:00–11:30 AM Immunometabolism in Heart Failure and Vascular Diseases (Joint) Grays/Longs Peak
  * Ronald J Vagnozzi, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
 
  Chiara Giannarelli, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Immune Mechanisms of Vascular Disease
 
  Kathleen Martin, Yale School of Medicine
Novel Smooth Muscle Mechanisms in Transplant Vasculopathy
 
  Xing Li Wang, Fosun Pharma
Challenges and Opportunities for Cardiovascular Drug Development
 
  Esther Lutgens, Mayo Clinic
Co-Stimulatory Immune Checkpoints: Maintaining Immune Cell Homeostasis
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Longs Peak Foyer
9:50–9:55 AM Award Recipient Acknowledgement Grays/Longs Peak
11:30–1:00 PM Poster Setup Quandary Peak
11:30–2:30 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Quandary Peak
2:30–4:30 PM Panel Discussion 1: Dialogue with Scientists and Physician-Scientists in Industry Grays Peak
  Rana Assaly, Cardiomedex
 
  Alberto Guarnieri, Genentech
 
  Douglas Hinerfeld, Alamar Biosciences
 
  Caitlin Langford, Perspectum
 
  Xiao-Jun Ma, Alamar Biosciences
 
  Anne N Murphy, Cytokinetics, Inc.
 
  Akshay Shekhar, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
 
  Kelly Yip, Perspectum Ltd.
 
  James G Karras, Haya Therapeutics
 
  Coleman Komishane, Monte Rosa Therapeutics
 
  Xing Li Wang, Fosun Pharma
 
  Jordan Shin, HAYA Therapeutics
 
  * Adam E Mullick, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 
  * James Priest, Tenaya Therapeutics
 
  * Martin Borch Jensen, Gordian Biotechnology
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Longs Peak Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Ischemic HFrEF Grays Peak
  * Patrick C.H. Hsieh, Academia Sinica
 
  * Long-Sheng Song, Univ of Iowa
 
  Biykem Bozkurt, Baylor College of Medicine
Ischemic HFrEF: Clinical Presentation and Unmet Needs
 
  James Priest, Tenaya Therapeutics
Modulation of Fibrosis in HFrEF
 
  Zoltan Arany, University of Pennsylvania
How do SGLT2 Inhibitors Benefit Heart Failure? (Hint: it’s not SGLT2)
 
  Lena Ho, Duke-NUS Medical School
Short Talk: Respiratory Chain Supercomplexes Protect Against Ischemic Heart Failure
 
  Gregory Wyant, MGH
Short Talk: Plasmalogen Control of Peroxisome Degradation Confers Ischemic Protection
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Quandary Peak
7:05–8:05 PM Women in Science Networking Event Quandary Peak Foyer
  * María Mittelbrunn, Molecular Biology Center, CSIC
Session Chair
 
  * Gemma A Figtree, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney
Session Chair
 
  * Kathryn E. Wellen, University of Pennsylvania
Session Chair
 
  * Chiara Giannarelli, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Session Chair
 
  * Esther Lutgens, Mayo Clinic
Session Chair
 
  * Pilar Alcaide, Tufts University School of Medicine
Session Chair
 
  * Marlies Meisel, University of Pittsburgh
Session Chair
 
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 1 Quandary Peak
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Quandary Peak
8:00–11:00 AM Cardiometabolic HFpEF Grays Peak
  * Karen A Ocorr, SBP Medical Discovery Institute
 
  Sanjiv Shah, Northwestern University
HFpEF: Clinical Presentations and Unmet Needs
 
  Gabriele G Schiattarella, Charité University Medical Center
Metabolic Regulation of HFpEF
 
  Virginia Hahn, Johns Hopkins University
Single Cell Analysis of HFpEF
 
  Ling Yang, University of Iowa
Short Talk: Lysosome Maintains Cardiac Immuno-metabolic Homeostasis in HFpEF
 
  Ulrich Kintscher, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Short Talk: Endothelial Deletion of Adipose Triglyceride Lipase Protects Against Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
 
  Martin Borch Jensen, Gordian Biotechnology
Short Talk: Novel in Vivo Screen System to Identify Therapeutic Targets in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
 
  Giuseppe D Norata, University of Milan
Short Talk: PCSK9 at the Crossroad of Cardiac Metabolic Reprogramming During Hfpef
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Longs Peak Foyer
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Quandary Peak
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Quandary Peak
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable (Joint) Grays Peak
  James Priest, Tenaya Therapeutics
Senior Director of Cardiovascular Genetics
 
  Maria Rescigno, Humanitas University
Professor, Group Leader, and Deputy Scientific Director
 
  Meng-Ju Wu, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Assistant Professor
 
  Anne N Murphy, Cytokinetics, Inc.
Vice President, Scientific Affairs
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Longs Peak Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Immunometabolic Exposome in HFpEF (Joint) Grays/Longs Peak
  * Matthew J Feinstein, Northwestern University
 
  Edward Thorp, Northwestern University
Myeloid Metabolism in the Amplification and Resolution of Cardiac Inflammation
 
  Geneviève Derumeaux, INSERM U955, Université Paris-Est Creteil
HFpEF: Obesity-Induced Immuno-Inflammation
 
  Pilar Alcaide, Tufts University School of Medicine
Immune Crosstalk in HFpEF
 
  Joseph A. Hill, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Immuno-Metabolic Mechanisms of HFpEF
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Quandary Peak
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Quandary Peak
Thursday, February 13, 2025
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Quandary Peak
8:00–11:00 AM Afterload-Induced HFrEF Grays Peak
  * Vlad Zaha, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
 
  Peter Liu, University of Ottawa Heart Institute
Coordination between Immunity, Metabolism and Microvasculature in Heart Failure: Now Reaching the Brain
 
  Anthony Rosenzweig, University of Michigan
Age-related Pathways in Heart Failure - Not Just for the Old
 
  Fady Malik, Cytokinetics Inc.
Sarcomere-Targeted Drugs
 
  Gemma A Figtree, Kolling Institute, University of Sydney
Short Talk: Advanced Immune and Lipidomic Profiling in Humans and Chimpanzees to Unravel Novel Factors in CT-Image Defined Coronary Artery Disease Susceptibility and Resilience
 
  Niranjana Natarajan, Universitty of Pittsburgh
Short Talk: Spatial Transcriptomic Profiling of Macrophage–Fibroblast Dynamics in Heart Failure
 
  Justin H Berger, Washington University School of Medicine
Short Talk: SGLT2 Inhibitors Act Independently of SGLT2 to Confer Benefit for HFrEF in Mice
 
  Hyun Kook, Chonnam National University
Short Talk: Loss of p300/CBP-Associated Factor Aggravates Cardiac Remodeling Via Regulation Of Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Kinase 2 Acetylation
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Longs Peak Foyer
11:00–2:30 PM On Own for Lunch
3:00–4:30 PM Panel Discussion 2: Dialogue with Journal Editors (Joint) Grays Peak
  Joseph A. Hill, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
*Session Chair, Editor in Chief, Circulation
 
  Gabriele G Schiattarella, Charité University Medical Center
*Session Chair, Associate Editor, Circulation
 
  Vesna Todorovic, Springer Nature
Chief Editor, Nature Cardiovascular Research
 
  Bruce D. Koppelman, Cell Press
Scientific Editor, Immunity
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Longs Peak Foyer
5:00–6:45 PM HFrEF: Other Mechanisms Grays Peak
  * Ryan L Boudreau, University of Iowa
 
  Stavros G. Drakos, University of Utah
Metabolism and Myocardial Recovery in Heart Failure
 
  Daniela Carnevale, University La Sapienza in Rome
Neuroimmune Mechanisms of Cardiac Remodeling
 
  Adam E Mullick, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
RNA Therapeutic Approaches for Heart Failure
 
  Luca Scorrano, University of Padova
Short Talk: Coordination Between Mitochondrial Dynamics and Autophagy in Heart Failure
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers) Grays Peak
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Quandary Peak
8:00–9:00 PM Entertainment Longs Peak
8:00–9:00 PM Cash Bar Quandary Peak
Friday, February 14, 2025
12:00–11:59 PM Departure