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Coffee break & best Poster
Location: Exhibition hall - 29/01/2026, 11:05 - 29/01/2026, 11:35 (Europe/Brussels) (30 minutes)
Best poster competition

11:10 - 11:15, What determines wall thickness? Investigating Compensatory Ventricular Remodeling in a Sheep model of Acute Onset - Chronic Left Bundle Branch Block

Prof. Jürgen Duchenne is a biomedical scientist and was trained in Hasselt and Leuven in Belgium and Maastricht in The Netherlands. He currently works as an Assistant-Professor in cardiovascular sciences at Hasselt University and as a Research Manager at the Heart Center Hasselt. He is also affiliated with KU Leuven as a guest professor. His main research interest is in the pathophysiology behind left ventricular remodelling, predominantly in heart failure patients. Prof. Duchenne has published over 80 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a 8-time nominee of Young Investigator Awards from European, Belgian and German Societies of Cardiology, of which 4-time winner.


11:15 - 11:20, Vitamin D deficiency aggravates pulmonary vascular remodeling and dysfunction in experimental pulmonary hypertension

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11:20 - 11:25, Wearable-derived training load and coronary atherosclerosis in middle-aged and older athletes and physically active controls: a new perspective from the Master@Heart study

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11:25 - 11:30, What influences coronary physiology in patients with severe aortic stenosis and coronary artery disease ?

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11:30 - 11:35, 4D Analysis of Left Atrial Dynamics after Pulsed-Field Ablation

Makoto Nishimori, MD, PhD, is a cardiologist and AI researcher at Kobe University and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). His work focuses on cardiovascular imaging, deep learning applications in electrophysiology, and left atrial function after catheter ablation. He has published widely in digital cardiology and leads several AI-driven clinical research projects in Japan and Belgium.