Targeting Mitochondria 2025 Speakers & Sessions
Day 1 - Wednesday October 22, 2025
Workshops
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
Day 2 - Thursday, October 23, 2025
Congress Sessions
Targeting Mitochondria 2025 Keynote Speech
• Nick Lane – Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Session 1: Mitochondrial Dynamics in Health and Diseases: Mechanistic and Perspectives
• Marc Germain – Actin Dynamics In Mitochondrial Function: Implications For Cellular Homeostasis And Disease
• Yosuke Togashi – Immune Evasion through Tumor-Derived Mitochondrial Transfer
• Florent Waltz – How Mitochondria Organize Their Powerhouse Machinery for Optimal Performance
• Edmund Kunji – Targeting Mitochondrial Pyruvate Carrier: Impact on Future Metabolic Therapies
• Luca Gattinoni – Fighting Fire with Fire: Boosting T Cell Therapy by Intercellular Mitochondrial Transfer
• Joanna Rorbach – Mitochondrial Protein Synthesis: A Key on Health and Disease / Mitoribosomes and Disease
Short oral presentations
Session 2: Advances in Mitochondria: Insights, Debates, and Controversies
• Alessandro M. Morelli – Delocalisation of the Macromolecular Devices for Efficient ATP Synthesis in Extra-Mitochondrial Districts
Day 3 - Firday, October 24, 2025
Congress Sessions
Targeting Mitochondria 2025 Keynote Speech
• Adam Szewczyk – Targeting Mitochondrial Channels: Update and Strategies
Session 3: Emerging Trends and Innovations in Mitochondria Research
• Alessandro Prigione – Brain Organoids for Drug Discovery of Mitochondrial Neurological Disorders
• David Rizo Roca – Mitochondria and Creatine: Perspectives and Strategies
• Alberto Anel – Mitochondrial Cybrids: Advancing Precision Oncology
• Ayumu Sugiura – The Role of Mitochondrial-Derived Vesicles in Peroxisome Biogenesis
Session 4: Mitochondria medicine: Strategies to Target Mitochondria, Clinical Trials and Potential Mitochondria-Based Therapies
• Volkmar Weissig – Drug Development for the Therapy of Mitochondrial Diseases
• Kosuke Kusamori – Development of Mitochondria-Based Therapeutic Strategies for Disease Treatment
• Gökhan Burçin Kubat – Mitochondrial Transplantation: From Skeletal Muscle Atrophy to Human Clinical Advances and Perspectives
• Mitochondria Transplantation: From Theoretical to Clinical Applications
• Andrés Caicedo, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
Targeting Mitochondria 2025 Awards
WMS Concluding Remarks
