Translational Aspects of Cardiac Arrhythmia Research

The theme of the 2009 GRC on Cardiac Arrhythmia Mechanisms is Translational Aspects of Cardiac Arrhythmias Research. The selection of proposed topics as well as speakers and discussion leaders reflects this emphasis. The organization of each session ensures that the sequence of speakers will lead the audience through what is known about a given subject at the level of the gene, the protein, the cell, the organ, and the organism in a systematic and didactic way, culminating with a presentation by a clinician/scientist that integrates and translates the presented topics into clinical research and practice. The presentations will define and analyze the latest and most important information on arrhythmia mechanisms and how these could result in novel anti-arrhythmia therapies and prevention.