Model Systems, Emerging Technologies and Precision Medicine in Arrhythmia Research and Therapeutic Development

There is an urgent need to understand the diverse mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias that lead to sudden death and stroke, which remain major health concerns and place more than 10 million Americans at risk. The 2017 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms addresses this need by emphasizing the importance of basic science discovery, the power of model systems and the new technologies that ultimately enable patient-specific, mechanistic approaches to disease diagnosis and treatment. The long-term objective of this meeting is to provide a forum for investigators – junior, mid-level and senior – to engage in focused discussion on the latest advances in the field of cardiac arrhythmia mechanisms. The meeting fosters the development of trainees by supporting an associated Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms at which trainees present their research findings and engage in panel discussions with mentors on matters of career pathways and professional development.

The 2017 meeting will highlight a range of disciplines including new mechanisms of arrhythmia, the role of population variation in computational model development, and transcriptional and translational mechanisms regulating cardiac excitability. Approximately 50 speakers will be selected to present cutting-edge work that is largely unpublished. Poster sessions will provide additional opportunity for collegial interactions over refreshments. Participants are encouraged to register early as the last two offerings of this meeting were oversubscribed.