Event Details

11^th–12^th June
Onsite event
in in Alhopuro Hall, Medisiina D
Flyer

The Finnish Atherosclerosis Society (SATY ry) promotes scientific research and educational activities related to atherosclerosis in Finland. It organizes an annual scientific meeting, provides travel grants for trainees to attend scientific conferences, and supports knowledge sharing in the field. SATY ry also acts as Finland’s representative within the European Atherosclerosis Society. More information, including application for membership, is available on the SATY website.

The annual conference of the SATY 2026 will be organized at the Alhopuro Hall, Medisiina D, University of Turku. The meeting will start at noon on Thursday June 11th and end on Friday June 12th at 16:15.

The theme of the conference is ’From cellular mechanisms to early prevention and detection of atherosclerosis throughout the life-course’.

The SATY annual conference represents a broad spectrum of basic, translational, and clinical research ranging from cellular metabolism to life-course prevention and detection of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. You can shape the final program by submitting an abstract. Oral and poster presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts, providing opportunities for researchers at all career stages, including early-career researchers.

Plenary lectures:
Prof. Terence Dwyer (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia)
Prof. Johan Björkegren (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Associate Prof. Jeffrey Kroon (Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands)
Prof. Borja Ibánãz (online lecture, CNIC, Spain)

Conference registration and lunch on Friday are free of charge for all researchers affiliated with a university or an academic research institute. An extra registration fee of 25€ for the conference dinner applies.

Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Education Unit has granted a PGE course status for the conference. Graduate and post-graduate students may receive ECTS as follows: 1 ECTS for attending the entire meeting, 1 ECTS for oral presentation.

We would like to encourage all participants to submit abstracts. The deadline for abstract submission is March 29th, 2026, and the deadline for registration is April 26th, 2026.

Registration link: https://link.webropol.com/s/saty2026-registration
Abstract submission link: https://link.webropol.com/s/saty2026-abstract-submission.

Organising team for the conference: Juha Mykkänen, Suvi Rovio, Marja Heiskanen, Mia Ståhle, Joonas Lehto, Teemu Maaniitty, Juhani Knuuti, Antti Saraste, Tuomas Kiviniemi and Olli Raitakari.

If you have any questions, please contact Juha Mykkänen, juha.mykkanen@utu.fi