ESAO CONGRESS 2026
Iasi, Romania
From Bench to Bedside and Back Again

KEYNOTE LECTURE

09:30 - VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR DEFICIENCY IMPAIRS ANGIOGENESIS VIA ANGIOPOIETIN-2: RELEVANCE FOR GUT ANGIODYSPLASIA
Adela Constantinescu Bercu 
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

09:50 - OPTIMAL DESIGN OF A HYDRODYNAMIC BEARING USING A NEURAL NETWORK FOR IMPROVED BEARING PERFORMANCE IN A CENTRIFUGAL BLOOD PUMP

Ryo Kosaka
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

10:04 - MECHANICAL AND IN VITRO HEMOCOMPATIBLITY EVALUATION OF BIOMATERIALS FOR TOTAL ARTIFICIAL HEART MEMBRANES
Alba Thio-Pera
R&D Procope Medicals SAS, Nantes, France & Université de technologie de Compiègne

10:18 - STABILITY EVALUATION OF AN AXIALLY ACTUATED MAGNETIC LEVITATION MOTOR WITH PASSIVE RADIAL SUPPORT FOR A CENTRIFUGAL LVAD

Yaxin Wang

Innovative Device and Engineering Applications (IDEA) Lab & Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, United States of America

10:32 - SHEAR-INDUCED HEMOLYSIS OF PEDIATRIC AND ADULT BLOOD

Vera Froese

Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Institute of Computer-assisted Cardiovascular Medicine, Biofluid Mechanics Laboratory, Berlin, Germany

10:46 - HEMODYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION OF THE WIRE-DRIVEN ARTIFICIAL HEART THROUGH REDUCED-ORDER MODELING

Viola Bini

TU Delft,The Netherlands