VAC 2027 PRELIMINARY program
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Venue: CosmoCaixa Barcelona (https://cosmocaixa.org/es/)
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DAY 1 – TUESDAY 9 MARCH 2027
12:00-13:00 Registration
Opening
13:00-13:10 Welcome. Mariona Graupera, Chair of the Scientific Committee
13:10-13:20 Patient representatives’ message
13:20-13:30 Patient testimonies
13:30-14:15 Keynote Lecture I: Beth Drolet (Dept of Dermatology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Session 1 – Venous Malformations
14:15-14:40 TALK: Elisa Boscolo (College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA)
14:40-14:55 SHORT TALK 1
14:55-15:10 SHORT TALK 2
15:40-16:05 TALK: Ana Angulo-Urarte (Josep Carreras Research Institute (IJC), Spain)
16:05-16:20 SHORT TALK 3
16:20-16:35 SHORT TALK 4
16:35-17:00 TALK: Sarah Sheppard (Unit on Vascular Malformations, NIH, USA)
17:00-17:15 SHORT TALK 5
17:15-17:30 SHORT TALK 6
17:30-18:10 Flash Talks 1: 6 short talks, 5 min each + 10min discussion
Welcome Drink
18:10-19:30 Networking drink
DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH 2027
13:30-14:15 Keynote Lecture II: Claire Shovlin (National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College, UK)
Session 2 – Lymphatic Malformations & Lymphedema
09:30-09:40 Patient Testimonies
09:40-10:05 TALK: Taija Makinen (Department of Immunolgy, Uppsala Universitet, Finland)
10:05-10:20 SHORT TALK 7
10:20-10:35 SHORT TALK 8
10:35-11:00 TALK: Michael Dellinger (Departments of Surgery and Molecular Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-11:55 TALK: Shoshana Greenberger (Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel)
11:55-12:10 SHORT TALK 9
12:10-12:25 SHORT TALK 10
12:25-13:25 Lunch
13:15-14:45 POSTER SESSION I
14:45-15:00 Patient Testimonies
15:00-15:25 TALK: Isabelle Quere (Service Médecine Vasculaire, CHU de Montpellier, France)
15:25-15:40 SHORT TALK 11
15:40-15:55 SHORT TALK 12
15:55-16:35 Flash Talks 2: 6 short talks, 5 min each + 10min discussion
16:35-17:05 Coffee break
17:05-17:30 TALK: Pia Ostergaard (Cardiovascular & Genomics Research Institute, University of London, UK)
17:30-17:45 SHORT TALK 13
17:45-18:00 SHORT TALK 14
18:00-18:30 ROUND TABLE: Round table with patients, clinician and researcher
18:30-20:30 Cultural activity: Guided Walking Tour, Gothic Quarter and Born
DAY 3 – THURSDAY 11 MARCH 2027
08:00-08:45 MEET SPEAKERS: Breakfast with the speakers
08:45-09:30 Keynote Lecture III: TBC
Session 3 – Arteriovenous Malformations & HHT
09:30-09:55 TALK: Claudio Franco (Vascular Morphogenesis Lab, Católica Biomedical Research Center, Portugal)
09:55-10:10 SHORT TALK 15
10:10-10:35 TALK: Sabine Bailly (University Grenoble Alpes, INSERM, France)
10:35-11:05 Coffee break
11:05-11:30 TALK: TBC
11:30-11:45 SHORT TALK 16
11:45-12:00 SHORT TALK 17
12:00-12:15 Patient Testimonies
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:45 POSTER SESSION II
Session 4 – Clinical Trials
14:45-15:10 TALK: Paloma Triana (Hospital Infantil de la Paz, Spain)
15:10-15:25 SHORT TALK 18
15:25-15:40 SHORT TALK 19
15:40-16:10 Coffee break
16:10-16:35 TALK: Antoni Riera-Mestre (Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Spain)
16:35-17:00 TALK: Laurence Boon (Center for Vascular Anomalies, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc (UCLouvain), Belgium)
17:00-17:15 SHORT TALK 20
20:00 VAC Dinner: Dinner & Networking
DAY 4 – FRIDAY 12 MARCH 2027
Session 5 – Capillary malformations
09:00-9:25 TALK: Eulalia Baselga (Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Spain)
09:25-09:40 SHORT TALK 21
09:40-09:55 SHORT TALK 22
09:55-10:10 SHORT TALK 23
10:10-10:35 TALK: Ayal Ben-Zvi (Faculty of Medicine, The Hebreu University of Jerusalem, Israel)
10:35-10:50 Patient Testimonies
10:50-11:20 Coffee break
Session 6 – Cerebral Cavernous Malformations (CCM) & Brain Lesions
11:20-11:45 TALK: Michael Potente (Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany)
11:45-12:10 TALK: Mark Khan (Department of Medicine and Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pensylvania, USA)
12:10-12:25 SHORT TALK 24 Selected from Abstracts
12:25-12:40 SHORT TALK 25 Selected from Abstracts
12:40-13:05 TALK: Anne Joutel (Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris, INSERM, France)
13:05-13:15 Awards & Closing