Schedule

2021 CARDIAC PHYSIOME
VIRTUAL meeting. REGISTRATION is FREE.

DAY 1
WEDNESDAY NOV 10
TIME ZONE: US EASTERN (EST)
I. CiPA (Comprehensive in vitro Proarrhythmia Assay) Satellite Meeting 2021
(If you aren’t familiar with CiPA, or its in-silico modelling aspects, you may wish to review the FDA team’s publication on the modelling aspects here: https://doi.org/10.1002/psp4.12423)
9:00 – 9:30Introduction
CiPA Welcome/Aims Gary Mirams (University of Nottingham)
An update on CiPA Progress David Strauss (FDA)
9:30 – 10:10Theme 1: Incorporating Improvements
Joint talk: Zhihua Li (FDA) Principles for regulatory acceptance & Ken Wang (Roche) An example of ongoing work on comedications

10mins Expanded Q&A
10:10 – 10:20Break
10:20 – 11:10Theme 2: Binding & Kinetics
Dominic Whittaker (University of Nottingham) “Exploring models of drug-hERG channel interactions”
Adam Hill (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute) “Next steps for in-silico risk prediction”
11:10 – 12:20Theme 3: Risk in Subpopulations
Zhilin Qu (UCLA) “An in-silico platform for cardiac arrhythmia risk prediction”
Stefano Morotti (UC Davis) “Sex-Specific Classification of Drug-Induced Torsade de Pointes Susceptibility Using Cardiac Simulations and Machine Learning”
12:20 – 12:40Break
12:40 – 13:15Q&A for Pre-recorded CiPA Talks (pre-recorded talks)
13:15 – 13:30Break
13:30 – 15:00CARDIAC PHYSIOME Poster Session 1 (posters)
15:00 – 15:50Roundtable Discussion
Discussion panelists: David Strauss, Zhihua Li, Eleonora Grandi, Trine Krogh-Madsen

Gary Mirams (University of Nottingham) – summing up and future challenges
15:50 – 16:00Break
II. Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) & Quantitative Systems Toxicology (QST) Session (under the joint auspices of Cardiac Physiome/ACOP12)
Moderator: Kylie Beatie (GSK)
16:00 – 16:05Opening remarks: Cardiac Physiome + ACOP/ISOP organizers
16:05 – 16:20Keynote Talk by CJ Musante (Pfizer) – The When and Why of Cardiovascular QSP & QST: An Industry Perspective
16:20 – 16:55Panel Discussion with Industry QSP&QST representatives including on validation framework, collaboration opportunities and career opportunities for young trainees
Limei Cheng (BMS)
Valeriu Damian (GSK)

CJ Musante (Pfizer)
Amy Pointon (AstraZeneca)
Christopher Pollard (Certara)
Scott Siler (DILIsym, Simulations Plus)
16:55 – 17:00Break
III. Industry Software/Computational Methodologies
Moderator: Steven Niederer (King’s College London)
17:00 – 17:15Keynote talk by Pras Pathmanathan (FDA) – When can we trust cardiac simulations?
17:20 – 18:00Panel Discussion with Industry Software Developers on novel methodology, case studies and collaboration opportunities, career opportunities for young trainees
James Kozloski (IBM)
Nathalie Virag (Medtronic)

Pras Pathmanathan (FDA)
Christopher Rackauckas (Julia)
Karim El Houari (Ansys)
Tiziano Passerini (Siemens)

Gernot Plank (University of Graz)
Karl D’Souza (Living Heart Project, Dassault Systemes)
DAY 2
THURSDAY NOV 11
TIME ZONE: US EASTERN (EST)
2021 Cardiac Physiome Workshop
Latest Insights into Electro-Mechano-Energetic Coupling in the Heart
8:45 – 9:00Welcome by Cardiac Physiome Workshop Organizers: Anna Sher (Pfizer), Thomas Heldt (MIT), David Nickerson (University of Auckland)
Opening Remarks by Morrie Birnbaum (Pfizer)
9:00 – 9:30Keynote talk by Declan O’Regan (Imperial College London)
Title: New approaches to cardiovascular disease research using imaging and AI
Chairperson: Tammo Delhaas (Maastricht University)
9:30 – 10:40Session 1: CARDIAC METABOLISM & METABOLIC DISEASES
Moderator: Dan Beard (University of Michigan)
Speaker/panelist 1: Jason Bazil (Michigan State University) – Mitochondrial calcium overload and its effects on energy metabolism
Speaker/panelist 2: Dunja Aksentijevic (Queen Mary University of London) – Immunometabolic cross-talk in the inflamed diabetic heart
Panelist 3: Michael Shattock (King’s College London)
Panelist 4: Gary Lopaschuk (Alberta University)
Panelist 5: Fabio Recchia (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy)
10:40 – 10:50Break
10:50 – 12:00Session 2: CARDIAC MECHANICS AND MECHANO-ENERGETICS
Moderator: Peter Kohl (University of Freiburg)
Speaker/panelist 1: Bert Tanner (University of Washington) – Effects of sarcomere length and fibrosis on myocardial force production in tissue samples from donors and heart failure patients
Speaker/panelist 2: Eva Rog-Zielinska (University of Freiburg) – Beat-by-beat cardiac T-tubular deformation drives luminal content exchange
Panelist 3: Asuka Hatano (Tokyo University)
Panelist 4: Paul Janssen (The Ohio State University)
12:00 – 12:20Break
12:20 – 13:25CARDIAC PHYSIOME Poster Session 2 (posters)
13:25 – 13:30Break
13:30 – 14:00Keynote talk by Denis Noble (University of Oxford)
Title: How did the Cardiac Physiome take off, and where should it be going?
Chairperson: Peter Hunter (University of Auckland)
14:00 – 15:10Session 3: CARDIAC ELECTRO-MECHANO-ENERGETIC COUPLING
Moderator: Andrew McCulloch (University of California San Diego)
Speaker/panelist 1: Viviane Timmermann (Freiburg University) – A computational model of mechano-electric coupling and mechano-energetics during acute ischemia
Speaker/panelist 2: Adarsh Krishnamurthy (Iowa State University) – Data-driven computational modeling for cardiovascular mechanics
Panelist 3: Pawel Swietach (University of Oxford)
Panelist 4: Naomi Chesler (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Panelist 5: Olga Solovyova (Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg)
15:10 – 15:20Break
15:20 – 16:30Session 4: HEART FAILURE
Moderator: Russell Miller (Pfizer)
Speaker/panelist 1: Stuart Campbell (Yale University) – Molecular mechanisms of the dilated cardiomyopathy-associated mutation TPM1 M8R
Speaker/panelist 2: Aaron Aguirre (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School) – Intravital imaging of the coronary circulation at the cellular level in models of heart failure
Panelist 3: Kenneth Campbell (University of Kentucky)
Panelist 4: Kaivan Khavandi (GSK)
16:30 – 16:50In Memory of Edmund Crampin
Reminiscences by Vijay Rajagopal and Peter Hunter
DAY 3
FRIDAY NOV 12
TIME ZONE: US EASTERN (EST)
Cardiac Physiome 2021
Pharmacotherapy, Surgical Intervention and Looking Beyond the Heart
9:00 – 9:30Keynote talk by Natalia Trayanova (Johns Hopkins University)
Title: AI-Enabled Personalized Computational Cardiology
Chairperson: Alexander Panfilov (Ghent University)
9:30 – 10:40Session 5: ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY, ARRHYTHMIA, AND RISK STRATIFICATION
Moderator: Jeremy Ruskin (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School)
Speaker/panelist 1: Nele Vandersickel (Ghent University) – Applications of directed graph mapping (DGM) to analyze different types of cardiac arrhythmia
Speaker/panelist 2: Patrick Boyle (University of Washington) – Towards better understanding of left atrial fibrosis as a common pathophysiological nexus between arrhythmogenesis and thrombogenesis
Panelist 3: Collin Stultz (MIT)
Panelist 4: Leon Glass (McGill University)
Panelist 5: Alex Quinn (Dalhousie University)
10:40 – 10:50Break
10:50 – 12:00Session 6: CARDIAC SURGICAL INTERVENTIONS
Moderator: Michael Sacks (Texas University)
Speaker/panelist 1: Caroline Roney (King’s College London) – Predicting atrial fibrillation ablation outcome by combining population data and patient-specific models
Speaker/panelist 2: Ellen Roche (MIT) – A moving target: Augmenting dynamic organ function with device-based approaches
Panelist 3: Keith Herrmann (Boston Scientific in Minneapolis)
Panelist 4: Elazer Edelman (MIT)
Panelist 5: Steffen Leonhardt (RWTH Aachen, Helmholtz Institute)
12:00- 12:20Break
12:20 – 13:25CARDIAC PHYSIOME Poster Session 3 (posters)
13:25 – 13:30Break
13:30 – 14:00Keynote talk by Alison Marsden (Stanford University)
Title: Towards personalized simulations of cardiovascular fluid solid growth
Chairperson: Chae Hun Leem (University of Ulsam)
14:00 – 15:10Session 7: STRUCTURAL CARDIAC DISEASES AND RARE DISEASES
Moderator: Steven Niederer (King’s College London)
Speaker/panelist 1: Stephanie Lindsey (Stanford University) – The use of tissue engineered vascular grafts in single ventricle palliation: Assessing the role of changing hemodynamic conditions
Speaker/panelist 2: Francisco Sahli Costabal (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) – Learning atrial fiber orientations and conductivity tensors from intracardiac maps using physics-informed neural networks
Panelist 3: Jeffrey Saucerman (The University of Virginia)
Panelist 4: Gabriel Brooks (Pfizer)
15:10 – 15:20Break
15:20 – 16:30Session 8: BEYOND THE HEART
Moderator: Mellisa Hallow (University of Georgia)
Speaker 1: Daniela Valdez-Jasso (University of California San Diego) – Arterial and right ventricular remodeling in pulmonary arterial hypertension
Speaker 2: Ana Simon Chica (University of Freiburg) – Cardiac immune cells: electrophysiological considerations and leukocyte diversity in the heart

Speaker: Elaine Chew (CNRS – STMS Lab (IRCAM)) – Musical expression and cardiac electrophysiology: Reciprocal interactions
16:30 – 16:50Awards ceremony
Moderator: Andrew McCulloch (University of California San Diego)
John Jeremy Rice Early Career Innovation Award presented by Richard Gray (FDA)
James B. Bassingthwaighte Young Investigator Best Poster Awards presented by Dan Beard (University of Michigan)
16:50 – 17:00Closing remarks by Anna Sher (Pfizer), Thomas Heldt (MIT), and , David Nickerson (University of Auckland)