Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

DCAcademy Cardiometabolic Networking Summit
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3182-24-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 06/12/2023

Date and time	27.01.2024, at: 16:00 - 31.01.2024, at: 11:30
Regular seats	24
Course fee	7,920.00 kr.
Lecturers	Thomas Jespersen
ECTS credits	3.00

Contact person	Arnela Saljic E-mail address: arnela@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content Seats for this course are reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. After the enrolment deadline, available seats will be allocated to the waiting list. The course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD students at NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee. ”SPECIAL RULES APPLY FOR THIS COURSE” 1) All applicants will be put on the waiting list upon applying for the course. After the application deadline all participants will be notified whether they are given a seat or not. 2) Please make sure when you apply for the course to also submit an abstract though the DCAcademy webpage: https://events.au.dk/cardiacmetabolism/signup. Selected abstracts will be notified upon the application deadline. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Discuss the development and complications of cardiometabolic related diseases. 2. Explain complexity and interplay in cardiac metabolism. 3. Discuss topics on cardiometabolic genomics. 4. Combine theoretical and practical insights into novel aspects in cardiometabolic clinical pharmacology. 5. Understand comorbidity between atherosclerosis and microvasculature disease. Content The summit is designed to provide an extensive insight into several translational cardiometabolic aspects with presentations from 6 international experts, 24 leading Danish Cardiometabolic researchers and 40 Danish PhD and Postdoc fellows (posters and short presentations). Additionally, there will be plenty of networking opportunities. Following topics will be covered: • Interplay in cardiac metabolism • Cardiometabolic genomics • Global health and heterogeneity in risk and disease • Novel aspects in cardiometabolic clinical pharmacology • Early risk markers of diabetes and CV disease • Atherosclerosis and microvascular disease Participants The course is designed for PhD students and postdocs working in the cardiovascular and metabolic research fields. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Basic Metabolic Research Cardiovascular Research Cellular and Genetic Medicine Language English Form Lectures, group work, discussions, poster presentations, Course director Thomas Jespersen, professor, University of Copenhagen, thojes@sund.ku.dk Teachers Johannes Castelein, Groeningen, NL Julia Goedecke, Cape Town, SA Gunnar Gisslason, Heart Foundation Morten B Thomsen, UCPH Niels Jessen, SDCA Kristine Færch, Novo Nordisk A/S Ulla Kampmann Opstrup, SDCA Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, RH Jørgen Kanters, UCPH Anneik Lubberding, UCPH Louise Groth Grunnet, SDCC Karoline Kragelund Nielsen, SDCC Jennifer Baker, NNF Morten Lund, UCPH Jacob Fog Bentzen, AU Lars Melholdt Rasmussen, SDU Daniel Ketelhuth, SDU Emma Börgeson, AU Rasmus Borgquist, NNF Henning Bundgaard, RH Mette Nyegaard, AAU Dirk Lund Christensen, UCPH Magnus T. Jensen, SDCC Signe Torekov, UCPH Rikke Buhl, UCPH Dates 27 – 31 January 2024 Course location La Folie Douce Hotels Chamonix, France Registration Please register before 06 December 2023. Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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