Programme

Iron, bone, heart, cancer, infections & Hepcidin
08.15 – 08.30Welcome and Introduction
08.30 – 10.15Iron and bone
Chair: Maria Ledesma Colunga (Dresden, Germany), Herbert Tilg (Innsbruck, Austria)

State of the art: Iron and bone
Martina Rauner (Dresden, Germany)

Oral presentations
O-01 Osteoclast-Specific Iron Deficiency Promotes Hypoxia-mediated Bone Loss
Tiago Oliveira (Heidelberg, Germany)

O-02 Eosinophils drive iron-induced aggravation of pathological bone formation
Ulrike Baschant (Dresden, Germany)

O-03 Ferric Carboxymaltose Increases Fracture Risk in Patients and Reduces Bone Formation in Mice with Iron Deficiency Anemia
Sonja Wagner (Innsbruck, Austria)

O-04 4-octyl itaconate rescues osteomalacia and FGF-23 levels in FDI-treated mice
Vanessa Passin (Dresden, Germany)

Poster flash talks
P-24 Gastrointestinally Stabilized Thermostable Exoshells for Oral Iron Repletion Therapy
Chester Drum (Singapore, Singapore)

P-01 Cellular iron deficiency impairs mast cell development and degranulation
Hannah Murray (Oxford, United Kingdom)

P-08 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Iron Metabolism, Hypoxia and Cardiolipin in the Context of Tamoxifen Resistance
Jaroslav Truksa (Vestec, Czech Republic)

P-05 Bone loss and iron overload: does it matter?
Maja Vujic Spasic (Ulm, Germany)
10.15 – 11.00Coffee break & poster viewing
11.00 – 11.45EIC Bussiness Meeting
11.45 – 13.15Iron, immunology and cancer
Chair: David Haschka (Innsbruck, Austria) & Max Gassmann (Zurich, Switzerland)

State of the art: Iron, immunology and cancer
Hal Drakesmith (Oxford, United Kingdom) & Guenter Weiss (Innsbruck, Austria)

Oral presentations
O-05 Iron Deprivation Counteracts Systemic Autoimmune Inflammation
Dana Costigan (Oxford, United Kingdom)

O-06 The iron chaperone PCBP2 controls iron homeostasis in iron-reycling macrophages
Manuel Grander (Innsbruck, Austria)

O-07 Disrupted iron homeostasis and risk of bacteraemia in Kenyan children with severe anaemia
Kelvin Mokaya Abuga (Kilifi, Kenya)

O-08 Anemia in the Elderly and Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential: Preliminary Results of an Italian Multicenter Study
Elisa Antinori (Verona, Italy)
13.15 – 14.30Lunch
14.30 – 16.00Bone morphogenic proteins
Chair: Heinz Zoller (Innsbruck, Austria), Elke Pertler (Innsbruck, Austria)

State of the art: Bone morphogenic proteins
Sandro Altamura (Heidelberg, Germany) & Martina Muckenthaler (Heidelberg, Germany)

Oral presentations
O-09 Endothelial Nrf2 is required to co-ordinate production of BMP6 and hepcidin with hepatic iron loading
Tiago Duarte (Porto, Portugal)

O-10 TFR2 interacts with ALK3/BMP signaling to regulate bone mass
Maria Ledesma Golunga (Dresden, Germany)

O-11 Transferrin receptor 1-mediated iron uptake mediates thermogenesis in human adipocytes
Rini Arianti (Debrecen, Hungary)

Poster flash talks
P-09 Biophysical MRI Signal Modeling Reveals Cerebral Iron Clustering in Aceruloplasminemia
Alexander Stürz (Innsbruck, Austria)

P-16 Iron-induced hypophosphatemia: from a case-report to a proposal for a management flowchart
Giacomo Marchi (Verona, Italy)

P-30 IV iron preparations that are often used interchangeably in the clinic cause different phenotypic alterations in macrophages
Maria Moreira Pereira (Heidelberg, Germany)

P-21 Hepatic osteodystrophy and sarcopenia: the role of iron metabolism in advanced liver disease
Martina Saretto (Innsbruck, Austria)

P-17 The prognostic value of hyperferritinemia in severe infection and sepsis
Karoline Flengsrud (Oslo, Norway)
16.00 – 16.45Coffee break & poster session
16.45 – 18.00Cellular iron metabolism
Chair: Diego Moretti (Zurich, Switzerland), Benedikt Schäfer (Innsbruck, Austria)

State of the art: From Hepcidin regulation to iron recycling
Katarzyna Mleczko-Sanecka (Warsaw, Poland)

Oral presentations
O-12 Cell-type specific iron content regulation revealed by single-cell iron quantification
Philip Holdship (Oxford, United Kingdom)

O-13 Ironing Out Blood Transfusion: The Role of Perioperative Iron Infusion in Hepatobiliary Cancer Surgery
Shreya Das Adhikari (London, United Kingdom)

O-14 Adaptations of Skeletal Muscle to Iron Deficiency Anemia and Recovery after Intravenous Iron Therapy
Elke Pertler (Innsbruck, Austria)
19.00 Gala Dinner

Brain iron and Hemochromatosis
08.30 – 10.00Hemochromatosis
Chair: John Ryan (Dublin, Ireland) & Paul Adams (London, Canada)

State of the art: What’s causing Hemochromatosis – low hepcidin, NTBI or tissue iron overload?
Domenico Girelli (Verona, Italy)

Oral presentations
O-15 Dysregulation of hepcidin in Hemochromatosis: Results from a multinational cross-sectional study on serum iron parameters and MRI
Maria Troppmair (Innsbruck, Austria)

O-16 Defining Ferritin Decision Limits: Addressing the Uncertainty
Dorine Swinkels (Nijmegen, Netherlands)

O-17 Association of serum ferritin with persistent infarct core iron after ST-elevation myocardial infarction
Alex Kaser (Innsbruck, Austria)

O-18 Impact of Dietary Iron on Cardiac Function and Iron Distribution in Heart Failure
Christina Mertens (Heidelberg, Germany)
10.00 – 10.15Addressing patient needs in hemochromatosis through a novel targeted approach
Vania Manolava (CSL)
10.15 – 10.45Coffee break & poster viewing
10.45 – 11.45Panel discussion – Diagnostic criteria and hepcidin directed therapy for Hemochromatosis
Chair: Dorine Swinkels (Netherlands) & Antonello Pietrangelo (Modena, Italy)

Panel discussion: Elena Corradini (Modena, Italy) & Jeremy Shearman (Warwick, United Kingdom)
11.45 – 13.15Brain iron
Chair: Sonia Distante (Oslo, Norwegen) & Marlene Panzer (Innsbruck, Austria)

State of the art: Brain iron
Sonia Levi (Milano, Italy)

Towards a ceruloplasmin protein replacement therapy in aceruloplasminemia
Ilaria Nardini (Kedrion)

Oral presentations
O-20 Long-term sequential iron chelation with Deferasirox and Deferiprone in Aceruloplasminemia: a case series of two brothers with sustained neurological improvement
Giada Di Betto (Modena, Italy)

O-21 Quantitative Post Mortem MRI Reveals Sex-Dependent Patterns of Brain Iron in Alzheimer’s Disease
Anna Maria Birkl-Toeglhofer (Innsbruck, Austria)

Role of myeloperoxidase-mediated neuroinflammation in Aceruloplasminemia
Massimo Alessio(Milano, Italy for Kedrion)
13.15 – 13.45Lunch
13.45 – 14.30Panel discussion – IV iron in heart failure – Hope or dope
Chair: Samira Lakhal-Littleton (Oxford, United Kingdom) & Axel Bauer (Innsbruck, Austria)

Panel discussion: Hossein Ardehali (Arizona, United States) & John Cleland (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
14.30 – 16.00Iron overload
Chair: Antonello Pietrangelo (Modena, Italy) & Maria Troppmair (Innsbruck, Austria)

State of the art: What has UK biobank taught us about Hemochromatosis?
Janice Atkins (Exeter, United Kingdom)

Oral presentations
O-23 Haemochromatosis and the Bone Density Paradox: Elevated Fracture Risk in Male C282Y Homozygotes
Lucy Banfield (Exeter, United Kingdom)

O-24 Prevalence of intolerance, insufficient response to phlebotomy, and treatment-related burden among adults with hereditary hemochromatosis in the United States
Charlotte Pollet (Glattbrugg, Switzerland)

O-26 Modeling Iron Deficiency and Overload in Human iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes
Chiara Volani (Innsbruck, Austria)

O-30 Impact of Long-Term Venesection on Myocardial Mechanics in HFE-Related Hereditary Hemochromatosis
Michał Świątczak (Gdańsk, Poland)
16.00 – 16.45Coffee break & poster session
16.45 – 18.00Systemic iron metabolism
Chair: Mayka Sanchez (Barcelona, Spain) & Igor Theurl (Innsbruck, Austria)

State of the art: Labile iron from Loch Ness monster to ferroptosis demon
Yoav Cabantichik (Jerusalem, Israel)

Oral presentations
O-27 Ceruloplasmin is required for hepatocellular – but not macrophage-iron export
Marlene Panzer (Innsbruck, Austria)

O-28 Hepcidin dynamics predict outcomes in COVID-19 patients treated with interleukin inhibitors
Elena Buzzetti (Modena, Italy)

O-29 Iron excess alters in vitro deposition of collagen and hydroxyapatite by osteogenic cells
Solenn Grall (Rennes, France)

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