The 2026 U-CARS symposium will be hosted at the Salt Lake City Marriot University Park, located on the University of Utah campus in scenic Salt Lake City, Utah.  

The objective of this conference once again is to bring thought leaders from around the world together to exchange ideas, debate paradigms, and share information directly focused on issues related to myocardial recovery and regeneration. Topics will expand across the basic, translational, and clinical sciences to provide a unique forum to push the field of heart recovery forward.

Past keynote addresses have been delivered by Eugene Braunwald, Michael Bristow, Christine Seidman, Eric Olsen, Sir Magdi Yacoub, and several other leading experts in cardiovascular health and disease. This year, the keynote speaker of the 14th U-CARS will be Dean Y Li, MD, PhD.