27 May 2018

SESSION THEME: Translational and Interdisciplinary Medicine

Chair: Prof. Jack WONG (Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Vice-Chair: Prof. Yu HUANG (Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Associate Director (Research), School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Vice-Chair: Prof. Xiaoqiang YAO (Professor and Theme Chief, School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

14:00 – 14:25

Towards Cardio-Precision Medicine

Prof. Nazish SAYED, Instructor, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University

14:25 – 14:50

Treating Diabetes with Established Cardiovascular Disease: Choice of anti-diabetic medications and impact on outcomes

Prof. Alice KONG, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

14:50 – 15:15

The many faces of PPARD in cardiovascular disease

Prof. Xiaoyu TIAN, Assistant Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

15:15 - 15:40

Cardiovascular manifestations of age-related loss of homoeostatic reserve: clinical implications

Prof. Jean WOO, Emeritus Professor of Medicine; Henry G Leong Research Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Faculty of Medicine; Director, CUHK Jockey Club Institute of Ageing; Director, SH Ho Centre for Gerontology and Geriatrics; Director, Centre for Nutritional Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

15:40 – 16:05

Coffee break & Outstanding Poster Presentation

16:05 – 16:30

TRP channels in autophagy and ER stress in human stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

Prof. Xiaoqiang YAO, Professor and Theme Chief, School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

16:30 - 16:55

Translational Medicine: from Genomics to Clinical Medicine

Prof. Sunny WONG, Assistant Professor (Clinical), Department of Medicine and Therapeutics; Principal Investigator, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

16:55 – 17:20

Energy balance and homeostasis in human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

Prof. Wendy KEUNG, Research Assistant Professor, Honorary Assistant Professor

Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Dr. Li Dak-Sum Research Centre, HKU - Karolinska Institutet Collaboration in Regenerative Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong

17:20 – 17:30

Closing Remarks