Programme

Chair: Christina E. Molina, Hamburg, Germany; Friederike Cuello, Hamburg, Germany

13:40 GS-02-01
Immunomodulation of the sympathetic nervous system
Karin Ziegler, Bad Nauheim, Germany

14:00 GS-02-02
Innervated engineered cardiac organoids
Maria-Patapia Zafeiriou, Göttingen, Germany

14:20 GS-02-03
Preclinical models to study sympathetic-induced arrhythmias
Christina E. Molina, Hamburg, Germany

14:40 GS-02-04
Neuromodulation to treat arrhythmias using hiPSC and organoid models
David J. Paterson, Oxford, United Kingdom

Short description:
In this symposium we will examine the mechanisms for remodelling of cardiac innervation by which sympathetic overactivation contributes to arrhythmia susceptibility, evaluate emerging therapeutic strategies and bridge the translational gap between preclinical insights and clinical trials.