February 1-4, 2026, at Sheraton Doha Hotel


18th International Meeting of the European Calcium Society

Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Rosario Rizzuto

Full Professor
National Center for Gene Therapy and Drugs based on RNA Technology
Chair, Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Padua
Padova, Italy

Dr. Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz

Head, 4D Cellular Physiology
Senior Group Leader
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Janelia Research Campus
Ashburn, VA, USA

Dr. David Yule

Full Professor
Department of Pharmacology and Physiology
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, USA

Speakers

Dr. Dipayan Chaudhuri

Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Dr. Osama Harraz

Assistant Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Vermont
Calgary, Canada

Dr. Filip Van Petegem

Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada

Dr. Harry Pritchard

Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Research Leader Fellow
University of Manchester
Manchester, UK

Dr. Sandip Patel

Professor
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University College London (UCL)
London, UK

Dr. Michael H. Zhu

McGovern Medical School
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
Houston,TX, USA 

Dr. Shanna Hamilton

Assistant Professor
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
College of Medicine Tucson
University of Arizona, USA
Tucson, AZ, USA

Dr. Robert Blum

Professor
Department of Neurology
University Hospital Würzburg
Würzburg, Germany

Dr. Paola Pizzo

Associate Professor of Pathology
Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Padua
Padova, Italy

Dr. Feng Gu

Researcher
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Center for Experimental Medicine
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology (IBMZ)
Hamburg, Germany

Dr. Carmen J. Williams

Deputy chief
Reproductive Developmental Biology Laboratory 
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences 
Bethesda, MA, USA

Dr. Susanna Zierler

Head, Institute of Pharmacoloy
Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU)
Faculty of Medicine
Group Leader, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
Linz, Austria

 

Dr. Josef Kittler

Professor of Molecular Neurobiology
University College London (UCL)
London, UK

Session Chairs

Dr. Khaled Machaca

Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research, Innovation and Commercialization
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Andreas Guse

Professor and Director
Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
President of the European Calcium Society

Dr. Geert Bultynck

Full Professor
Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Signaling
KU Leuven, Belgium
Secretary-General of the European Calcium Society

Dr. Jan B. Parys

Emeritus professor
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Leuven Kanker Instituut
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

Dr. Christian Grimm

Professor of Molecular Pharmacology
Walther-Straub-Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Ludwig-Maximilians-University
Munich, Germany

Dr. Mo Trebak

Professor
Vascular Medicine Institute
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Dr. Peter Stathopulos

Associate Professor
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
University of Western Ontario
Ontario, Canada

Dr. Gary Shaw

Professor of Biochemistry
University of Western Ontario
Ontario, Canada