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

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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