Preliminary Program
The 2024 NIKKILÄ MEMORIAL LECTURE
Organized by Minna Kaikkonen-Määttä (Finland)
To be announced
Session I - INFLAMMATION AND VASCULAR BIOLOGY
Organized and chaired by Anna-Kaisa Ruotsalainen (Finland) and Tuva Dahl (Norway)
Invited speakers:
Peder Olofsson (Sweden)
– To be announced
Marten Hoeksema (The Netherlands)
– Fine-tuning the macrophage’s inflammatory potential
Selected oral and poster presentations
Session II - CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Organized and chaired by Takahito Doi (Denmark) and Jeanine Roeters van Lennep (The Netherlands)
Invited speakers:
Maryam Kavousi (The Netherlands)
– Cardiovascular disease in women; Lessons learned from epidemiological studies
Göran K. Hansson (Sweden)
– Immunopathogenesis of atherosclerosis and its adaptation to cardiovascular medicine
Selected oral and poster presentations
Session III - LIPOPROTEINS AND LIPID TRANSPORT
Organized and chaired by Liv Nordestgaard (Denmark) and Matteo Pedrelli (Sweden)
Invited speakers:
Erik Stroes (The Netherlands) – Lipoprotein(a) and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease – new developments in testing and treatment
Dagmar Kratky (Austria) – Cytosolic and lysosomal lipid hydrolysis in atherosclerosis: insights from lipase-deficient mouse models
Selected oral and poster presentations
Session IV - OTHER TOPICS
Organized and chaired by Jiao Luo (Denmark) and Peter Saliba Gustafsson (Sweden)
Invited speakers:
Annelie Falkevall (Sweden)
– Inhibition of VEGF-B signaling prevents non-alcoholic fatty liver disease development by targeting lipolysis in the white adipose tissue
Ruth Loos (Denmark)
– The genetics of obesity
Selected oral and poster presentations