Meeting report from the 2nd International Symposium on New Frontiers in Cardiovascular Research. Protecting the cardiovascular system from ischemia : between bench and bedside - Cabrera-Fuentes, H. A (Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Centro de Biotecnología-FEMSA, Tecnológico de Monterrey) ; Alba-Alba, Corina (Institute of Genetics, Univeristy of the Sea. Puerto Escondido Campus, Oaxaca Oaxacan System of State Universities (SUNEO)) ; Aragones, Julian (Instituto de Investigación Hospital Universitario de la Princesa) ; Bernhagen, Jürgen (Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology, RWTH Aachen University) ; Boisvert, William A. (Center for Cardiovascular Research, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii) ; Bøtker, Hans Erik (Aarhus University Hospital (Aarhus, Dinamarca)) ; Cesarman-Maus, Gabriela (Department of Hematology, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico City, Mexico) ; Fleming, Ingrid (Institute for Vascular Signalling, Centre for Molecular Medicine, Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany) ; García-Dorado, David (Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron. Institut de Recerca) ; Lecour, Sandrine (Hatter Institute and MRC Inter-University Cape Heart Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town) ; Liehn, Elisa (Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research, RWTH University Hospital Aachen) ; Marber, Michael S. (King's College London) ; Marina, Nephtali (Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University College London) ; Mayr, Manuel (King's College London. The James Black Centre) ; Perez-Mendez, Oscar (Department of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Cardiology, Mexico City) ; Miura, Tetsuji (Department of Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine) ; Ruiz-Meana, Marisol (Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron. Institut de Recerca) ; Salinas-Estefanon, Eduardo M. (Laboratorio de Biofísica Cardiaca, Instituto de Fisiología, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico) ; Ong, Sang-Bing (National Heart Research Institute Singapore, National Heart Centre Singapore) ; Schnittler, Hans J. (Institute of Anatomy and Vascular Biology, Westfalian-Wilhelms-University, Münster) ; Sanchez-Vega, Jose T. (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología) ; Sumoza-Toledo, Adriana (Laboratorio Multidisciplinario de Ciencias Biomédicas, Instituto de Investigaciones Medico-Biológicas, Universidad Veracruzana campus Veracruz) ; Vogel, Carl-Wilhelm (Department of Pathology, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii) ; Yarullina, Dina (Department of Microbiology, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russian Federation) ; Yellon, Derek M. (The National Institute of Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre) ; Preissner, Klaus T. (Institute of Biochemistry, Medical School, Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany) ; Hausenloy, Derek J. (The National Institute of Health Research University College London Hospitals Biomedical Research Centre) ; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona