CARIM+HVC Symposium 26 November 2025

09.00 - 09.15 Coffee and welcome

09.15 - 09.35 Opening by Tilman Hackeng

Veni, Vidi, Vici (moderator: Kristiaan Wouters)
09.35 - 09.55 Veni: Sabine Daemen - ‘Macrophages to the rescue: Targeting liver fibrosis from within’

09.55 - 10.15 Veni: Uyen Nguyen - ‘The implication of fibrosis on pacing therapy in heart failure’

10.15 - 10.40 Break

10.40 - 11.00 Vidi: Bart Spronck - ‘The aorta as a key to personalised hypertension treatment’

11.00 - 11.20 Vici: Judith Sluimer - ‘Resetting fibroblast function to rejuvenate aged vasculature’

11.20 - 11.35 Update Topsector Prevention Armand Jaminon - ‘KBM2: Enhancing the impact of biomedical models at Maastricht University’ (moderator: Leon Schurgers)

11.35 - 12.15 Presentations nominees Prof. R. Reneman Young Investigator Award:Anouk Achten, Ilse Huijberts and Elien Bollen (moderators: Lisa den Brok and Stan Muitjens)

12.15 - 14.00 Poster session and lunch

14.00 - 14.45 Keynote lecture Patrick van Veen - ‘Monkey see, monkey do: Leadership, social cooperation
and monkey business in a clinical environment’ (moderator: Ingrid Dijkgraaf)

Dutch Heart Foundation Dekkers (moderator: Joost Lumens)
14.45 - 15.05 Postdoc: Elisa D’Alessandro - ‘At the edge of the atria: disentangling the crosstalk between atria and epicardial fat in atrial fibrillation’

15.05 - 15.25 Postdoc: Job Stoks - ‘From myocardial infarction to ventricular arrhythmia: unraveling the temporal dynamics’

15.25 - 16.00 Break

16.00 - 17.00 Robert Reneman Lecture Henk Marquering - ‘The long road to impact: Delivering on the promise of AI and digital twins in cardiovascular health’ (moderator: Wim van Zwam)

Awards & Prizes
17.00 - 17.15 Presentation winner Harry Crijns Research Grant (moderator: Harry Crijns) (sponsored by Recordati, Amgen & Hart en Vaat onderzoekfonds Limburg)

17.15 - 17.45 CARIM awards, CARIM Priori and wrap-up

17.45 Evening celebration: Thiessen Wijnkoopers, Grote Gracht 18 Maastricht