Timișoara

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Atherotalk podcast, the podcast series hosted by the EAS Young Fellows.

My name is Laura Gajce from Viktor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania, and I will be your host for today's episode, recording during the EAS 2026 Congress in Athens, Greece.

It is my pleasure to introduce Professor Katarina Örni, Professor of Integrative Physiology at the University of Helsinki and the leader of the Atherosclerosis Research Laboratory in the Vihuri Research Institute.

Professor Erni and her team explored the function of lipoprotein particles and their role in atherosclerosis development.

We also do cultural trips to Hungary, mostly to Budapest, and then sometimes to Croatia.

This year we went to Timisoara, Romania as well.

Wow, how amazing and how awesome.

And within your first year, already having that thought that you were ready to take students from CMU there, even though that was just your first year at CMU.

And we have to talk about what is happening in Romania.

There was just a U.S.-Romania AI and Business Summit in Timisoara.

And it wasn't just a generic networking mixer with a few keynote speeches.

No, not at all.

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the ETHRO Talk podcast, the podcast series hosted by the EAS Young Fellows.

My name is Laura Gajce from Viktor Babes University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania.

And I will be your host for today's episode, recording during the EAS 2026 Congress in Athens, Greece.

We are privileged to have an exceptional guest in this episode, Professor Heribert Schunkert, the recipient of the 2026 EAS Anitchkov Prize, the society's most prestigious award for his pioneering work in the genetics of atherosclerosis on cardiovascular disease.