Session 14: Cardiovascular and Heart Disease Drug Discovery & Development to Innovative Therapeutics

Session Chair: Dr. Levon M. Khachigian, NHMRC SPRF, Professor and Head, Transcription and Gene Targeting Laboratory, Centre for Vascular Research, University of New South Wales, Australia
Co-Chair: Dr. J.W.N. Akkerman, Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology University Medical Center Utrecht , The Netherlands

Title: Normalizing Calcium Cycling for the Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation
Dr. Xander H.T. Wehrens, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX, USA

Title: Therapeutic Opportunities in Cardiovascular Disease using Small Molecule Nucleic Acid-Based Strategies
Dr. Levon M. Khachigian, NHMRC SPRF, Professor and Head, Transcription and Gene Targeting Laboratory, Centre for Vascular Research, University of New South Wales, Australia

Title: Recombinant Sendai Virus as a Novel RNA Drug (DVC1-0101) to Treat Critical Limb Ischemia
Dr. Yoshikazu Yonemitsu, Professor, Department of Gene Therapy, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Title: A Novel Aqueous Alprostadil Formulation with Excellent Superficial Skin Penetration but without Hypersensitivity or Skin Irritation for the Treatment of Female Sexual Arousal Disorder
Dr. Ernst R. Schwarz, Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Division of Cardiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Comprehensive Transplant Program, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA

Title: Role of the Mitochondrial F1F0 ATPase in Myocardial Ischemia: Is the Switch from Synthase to Hydrolase Activity During Ischemia Merely a Chemical Reaction Run in Reverse?
Dr. Gary J. Grover, Director of Pharmacology, Eurofins Scientific, Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Jersey, USA

Title: Secretion from Cells - Networks and Structures; Use of Cell Immunoblotting and the Atomic Force Microscope
Dr. John Evans, Department of Obstetrics and. Gynaecology, Christchurch Women's Hospital, Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand

Title: Novel Causes of Hyperactive Blood Platelets
Dr. J.W.N. Akkerman, Department of Clinical Chemistry and Haematology University Medical Center Utrecht , The Netherlands

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