Abstracts Submission 2025 Now Open

Early Bird Registration: May 26, 2025 Short Oral Deadline: September 30, 2025 Poster Deadline: October 9, 2025

WMS Speakers 2025

Keynote Speech: Targeting Mitochondrial Channels: Update and StrategiesAdam Szewczyk, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland

Keynote Speech - Mitochondria and the Meaning of LifeNick Lane, University College of London, United Kingdom

Immune Evasion through Tumor-Derived Mitochondrial TransferYosuke Togashi, Okayama University, Japan

How Mitochondria Organize Their Powerhouse Machinery for Optimal PerformanceFlorent Waltz, University of Basel, Switzerland

Targeting Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier: Impact on Future Metabolic Therapies Edmund Kunji, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mitochondrial Dynamics: Steering the Future of Mitochondrial Remodeling in Health and DiseaseTatjana Kleele, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Drug Development for the Therapy of Mitochondrial DiseasesVolkmar Weissig, Midwestern University, College of Pharmacy Glendale, USA

Actin Dynamics In Mitochondrial Function: Implications For Cellular Homeostasis And Disease. Marc Germain, Université du Quebec, Canada

Fighting Fire with Fire: Boosting T Cell Therapy by Intercellular Mitochondrial TransferLuca Gattinoni, Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy, Germany

Mitochondria Function Evaluation: Workshop Highlights, Methods, Discrepancies, and RecommendationsNaig Gueguen, CHU Angers, France

Workshop on Mitochondrial Transfer and Transplantation: From Bench to BedsideAndrés Caicedo, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, School of Medicine, Ecuador

Development of Mitochondria-Based Therapeutic Strategies for Disease TreatmentKosuke Kusamori, Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Brain Organoids for Drug Discovery of Mitochondrial Neurological DisordersAlessandro Prigione, Heinrich Heine University, Germany

Delocalisation of the Macromolecular Devices that carry out the Oxidative Phosphorylation to realize an Efficient ATP Synthesis in Extra-Mitochondrial DistrictsAlessandro M. Morelli, University of Genoa, Italy

Mitochondrial Protein Synthesis: A key on Health and Disease or Mitoribosomes and Disease: How Mitochondrial Translation Shapes Cellular FunctionJoanna Rorbach, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Mitochondria and Creatine: Perspectives and StrategiesDavid Rizo Roca, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

Mitochondrial Cybrids: Advancing Precision OncologyAlberto Anel, University of Zaragoza, Spain

The Role of Mitochondrial-Derived Vesicles in Peroxisome biogenesisAyumu Sugiura, Juntendo University, Japan

Mitochondrial Transplantation: From Skeletal Muscle Atrophy to Human Clinical Advances and PerspectivesGökhan Burçin Kubat, Baskent University, Turkey

Workshops of Targeting Mitochondria 2025

Workshop 1: How to Evaluate Mitochondria Function?
Naïg Gueguen, Mitovasc Institute, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers, France

Workshop 2: Mitochondria Transplantation: From Theoretical to Clinical Applications
Andrés Caicedo, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

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Forever young: Unravelling the lights of the eternal youth
By Vanessa López Polo, Cellular Plasticity and Disease Laboratory, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Spain

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WMS Annual Meeting 2024 Highlights

The 15th WMS Annual Meeting on Targeting Mitochondria, held on October 29-31, 2024, was a great success! Over 112 presentations showcased innovative research and advancements in mitochondrial science to more than 151 attendees from 41 countries.

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