• Symposia
• 19 September, 2010

OPENING SPECIAL LECTURES
Pioneers in cardiology: from heart transplant to tissue engineering.	Magdi Yacoub
Biotechnology in left ventricular dysfunction.	Valentin Fuster
From bench to bedside on stem cell therapy for heart repair and vice versa: do we need a new consensus?	John Martin
WHAT’S NEW?
On embryonic Stem cells?	André Terzic
On adult stem cells?	Jozef Bartunek
On cell processing and mobilization?	Stefanie Dimmeler
On heart tissue engineering?	Doris Taylor
On cell homing and tracking?	Dara Kraitchman
On clinical scenarios and clinical trials?	Stefan Janssens
On routes of administration?	Nabil Dib
CONTROVERSY
Stem cell mechanisms of action: transdifferentiation vs. others.
Transdifferentiation.	Bernardo Nadal
Others.	Helmut Drexler
Bone marrow stem cell therapy improves outcomes after STEMI.
Efficacy.	Andreas Zeiher
Non-efficacy.	Ketil Lunde
SPECIAL THEMED SESSION: ALTERNATIVES AND COMPLEMENREPLACEMENT OF THE HEART.
Ventricular assistance combined with biological therapies for the reeversal of heart failure. Myth or reality?	Emma Birks,Magdi Yacoub
Ventricular assistance as destination therapy or as a bridge to heart transplantation. Does the frontier really exist?	Roland Hetzer
Total mechanical replacement of the heart. Feasibility, performance and future.	O.H. Frazier
Feasibility of biventricular pacing in patients with recent myocardial infarction: impact on ventricular remodeling.	E. S. Chung
KEYNOTE SESSION
Making a heart. Lessons from developmental cardiology.	A.C. Gittenberger
Immunity barriers to save before jumping to allogeneceity of stem cell therapy.	Dominique Charron
Reverse remodelling during mechanical unloading of the left ventricle.	J.N. Nanas
Cardiac stem cell therapy. The puzzle waits to be solved. The role of networking approach.	Robert Simari