Session 1: Translational Science at home and abroad. Session Chairs: Beatrice H. Hahn, MD, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and Sir Keith Peters, FRCP, FRS, FMedSci, Emeritus Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge, Consultant in Clinical Science and Translational Medicine to the Francis Crick Institute and Senior Consultant in R&D to GlaxoSmithKline 10:00AM The German Centre for Cardiovascular Research – a new structure to promote translational research Thomas Eschenhagen, MD, Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Experimental Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany