On Wednesday, 26 June 2024, the Novo Nordisk Foundation will host the INTERACT Challenge Symposium with the aim of bringing together the research community for an exciting afternoon of knowledge sharing and networking. The purpose of the INTERACT Challenge Symposium is to generate interest, encourage collaborations, and answer questions related to the 2025 Challenge Programme call:
Interactions of infectious diseases & cardiometabolic diseases.
At the symposium there will be exciting speakers invited as well as short talks on different topics and participants can enjoy nice food and networking.
Programme
12:30 – 13:00 Coffee and registration
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome by Mads krogsgaard Thomsen, CEO, Novo Nordisk Foundation
13:15 – 14:00 Keynote address by Sir Jeremy Farrar, Chief Scientist, World Health Organization
14:00 – 14:20 Coffee Break
14:20 – 15:50 Session 1: Epidemiology /Cohorts
1. Assessing Cardiometabolic Comorbidities in People with HIV to Generate Tools to Assist in Prevention – The AMBITION Study
Susan Dam Poulsen, University of Copenhagen and Rigshospitalet
2. Understanding the interaction between metabolic and infectious diseases through frontline epidemiological methods and world-class databases
Reimar Niels Wernich Thomsen, Aarhus University and Aarhus University Hospital
3. BCG vaccine reduces adult all-cause mortality
Peter Aaby, University of Southern Denmark
4. Severe infections as risk factors for acute myocardial infarction: a nationwide, Danish cohort study from 1987-2018
Birgitte Lindgaard, Copenhagen University Hospital – North Zealand
5. Interactions of Infectious and Cardiometabolic Diseases
Lars Jørgen Østergaard, Aarhus University Hospital
6. The Danish Blood Donor Study (DBDS) – exploring interactions of cardiometabolic and infectious diseases
Christian Erikstrup, Aarhus University Hospital
15:50 – 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 – 17:40 Session 2: Basic Science
1. Impact of viral infection on cardiometabolic health of obese host
Katarzyna Maria Luda, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research
2. Infectious and cardiometabolic disease interplay in obesity: a case for obese pigs as highly translational models
Peter Heegaard, DTU Health Tech
3. A patient-centered causal atlas of the interplay between infections and cardiometabolic diseases
Anders Hviid, Statens Serum Institut
4. Flipping the paradigm – protective effects of parasite infections in cardiometabolic disease
Andrew Williams, University of Copenhagen
5. Molecular Understanding of the interactions between CMDs and Bone and Joint Infections
Thomas Bjarnsholt, University of Copenhagen
6. Associations between host genetic traits, inflammatory pathways and cardiometabolic phenotypes among people living with HIV
Lene Ryom, CHIP, Rigshospitalet
17:40 – 17:50 Closing remarks by Robert Morton, PhD, Senior Scientific Manager, Novo Nordisk Foundation
17:50 – 20:00 Cocktail dinner and networking
Please indicate at registration if you would like to give a short talk at the symposium. You will be asked to provide your title and abstract for the proposed talk.
Workshop venue:
Novo Nordisk Foundation – Tuborg Havnevej 19 – 2900 Hellerup
