Antwerp meets Boston

Cardiology Research Meetings with prof. Peter Libby at the occasion of his visiting Professorship for the Princess Lilian Foundation.

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17/03/2025 - 9.00-16.00

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Dear Colleague,

We cordially invite you to a new Antwerp Meets session!

Since Antwerp is the host university for Prof. Peter Libby’s Visting Professorship for the Princess Lilian Foundation, we have fitted our yearly meeting around this honorable event.

The format of our earlier research meetings will be used to provide doctoral students the opportunity to present their work before Prof. Libby. The morning session will be devoted to fundamental cardiovascular research, while the afternoon session will be more clinical and translational. The afternoon session will start by a personal account of Prof. Libby of his astounding career, and provide a mentoring opportunity for all attendees with him.

Prof. Libby has been Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston. His major research focus is the role of inflammation in vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis. He has a very extensive publication track record and has served in many scientific organisations. He also served as the Editor-in Chief of the 8th Edition of the well-known book Braunwald’s Heart Disease.

It is a privilege to have him in Antwerp for these discussion meetings!

After the meeting, he will also present his inaugural lecture for his Visiting Professorship in the nearby Aula Fernand Nédée at Campus Drie Eiken. Registration for that lecture, and for the walking buffet afterwards, can be made via the UAntwerp link below.

The meetings are open to all who is interested. Looking forward to meeting you in Antwerp!

Prof. Hein Heidbuchel Chair of Cardiology, UZA

Coordinator, Universitair Cardiologisch Netwerk Antwerpen

Program

9.00 - 13.00: Resarch meeting with Prof. Libby: fundamental topics
Coordinated by Prof. Guido De Meyer, PhysioPharmacology, UAntwerp
Prentenkabinet and Scaldis room, City Campus, UAntwerp

Presentations by 9 PhD students on their ongoing work

14.00 – 16.00 Resarch meeting with Prof. Libby: clinical and translational topics
Coordinated by Prof. Hein Heidbuchel, Cardiovascular Research, UAntwerp
Campus Drie Eiken, room Q.004 (near Aula Fernand Nédée)

13.30 – 14.00: Refreshments & coffee

14.00 – 14:15 A personal account: How I got here. And how you could get in Boston.
Prof. Peter Libby
14.15 - 15.00: A Q&A with PhD students and postdocs on scientific career plans
With Prof. Peter Libby

14.40 - 15.00: Mechanisms of left ventricular remodeling in mitral valve prolapse
Lobke Pype (promotor: Prof. C. Van de Heyning)
15.00 - 15.20: Automatic heart rate-based activity telemonitoring based on a machine learning algorithm for continuous PPG data
Paulien Vermunicht (promotors: Prof. H. Heidbuchel & Prof. L. Desteghe)
15.20 - 15.40: Circulating reactive oxygen species in adults with congenital heart disease
Inne Vanreusel (promotors Prof. A. Van Berendoncks, Dr. W. Hens & Prof. V. Segers)
15:40 - 16.00: Mitral valve regurgitation and thrombotic risk in atrial fibrillation
Sven Van Laer (promotors: Prof. M. Claeys & Prof. V. Segers)

17.45 - 19.00: Inaugural Lecture “Inflammation - A unifying feature of many diseases”
Prof. Peter Libby
Aula Fernand Nédée, Campus Drie Eiken, UAntwerp

19:00 - 20.30: Walking Dinner
Foyer Aula Fernand Nédée, Campus Drie Eiken, UAntwerp

Registration

For the research meetings (registration is free) (deadline March 11^th 2025). Register at the bottom this page.

For the Inaugural Lecture (via the UAntwerp and Princess Lilan Foundarion) (deadline March 7^th 2025)

Accreditation

We have applied for accreditation in Belgium.