Preliminary Program

 

The 2025 NIKKILÄ MEMORIAL LECTURE

Organized by Minna Kaikkonen-Määttä (Finland)
To be announced

Session I - INFLAMMATION AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY

Organized and chaired by Clare Hawkins (Denmark) and Bente Halvorsen (Norway)

Invited speakers:

Amélie Vromman (USA)   –  Sex influences atherosclerosis in TET2-related clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential and on interleukin-1beta inhibition

Yvonne Doring (Switzerland) –  Immune cell recruitment in atherosclerosis

Selected oral and poster presentations

 

Session II  - CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

Organized and chaired by Ida Juul Rasmussen (Denmark) and Jacob Juel Christensen (Norway)

Invited speakers:

Julie Lovegrove (UK) – Dispelling the Myths of dietary fats and cardiovascular risk

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Lars Melholt Rasmussen (Denmark) –  Somatic mutations and cellular clones in atherosclerotic plaquese 

Selected oral and poster presentations

 

Session III  - LIPOPROTEINS AND LIPID TRANSPORT

Organized and chaired by Paolo Parini (S) and Patrick Rensen (NL)

Invited speakers:

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Mafalda Bourbon (Portugal)  –  The genetic background behind the clinical familial hypercholesterolemia phenotype

Liam Brunham  (Canada) –  Role of HDL in sepsis rather than atherosclerosis


Selected oral and poster presentations

 

Session IV  - OTHER TOPICS

Organized and chaired by Eva Hurt-Camejo (Sweden) and Mia Ståhle (Finland)

Invited speakers:

Eva Hurt-Camejo (Sweden) –  New therapies for dyslipidemia (from Pharma Industry perspective)

Sarah Bär (Switzerland)   –  Novel imaging approaches to diagnose CAD and their ability to monitor treatment response


Selected oral and poster presentations