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02. August 2026
Registration & Fair
Welcome & Opening
Keynote: Decisions in the Dark
Dinner & Fair
Science Slam
Irina Filchenko | Bern, Switzerland
What Does Sleep Apnea Look Like? – Answers from the MRI Sleep Lab
Nathan Nowalk | Philadelphia, United States
High night-to-night variability in sleep apnoea severity is associated with prevalent cardiovascular events
Lucia Pinilla | Adelaide, Australia
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Treatment beyond Plumbing
Christian Strassberger | Boston, United States
Networking & Poker*
End of day 1
03. August 2026
Registration
Session 1: Sleep-Disordered Breathing Across the Lifespan
Olaf Oldenburg | Münster, Germany
Mihaela Teodorescu | Wisconsin, United States
Sleep-Disordered Breathing Across Reproductive Transitions: From Pregnancy to Menopause
- Novel sleep disordered breathing measures and glucose control in pregnant individuals with gestational diabetes: a post hoc analysis
- Effect of cannabidiol perinatal exposure on sleep and breathing in newborn rats
- Real-World Pediatric NIV Adherence and Acute Healthcare Utilization
- Role of REM OSA and Hypoxic Burden in Spatial Navigational Memory and Brain White Matter Integrity in Older Adults
- Gestational Intermittent Hypoxia Reprograms Adult Lung Function in Rat Offspring
Break
Session 2: Endotypes & Metrics beyond the Apnea-Hypopnea Index
Danny Eckert | Adelaide, Australia
Renata L Riha | Edinburgh, Scotland
From Risk Prediction to Treatment Benefit: Polysomnographic Biomarkers Guiding Precision Care in Sleep Apnea
- Establishing a normative value of area-based hypoxic burden measure in obstructive sleep apnea
- Advances in Estimating Sleep Apnea Pathophysiological Endotypes Using Airflow Shapes
- Estimating Skin Tone From Red And Infrared Light In Existing Pulse Oximeters To Correct Skin Tone-related Bias
- Arousability from Sleep as a Multidimensional Construct: Principal Component Analysis and Machine-Learning Based Feature Selection for Sex-Specific Phenotyping and Cardiovascular Risk Stratification
- Clustering full-night polysomnography representations reveals novel physiological signatures of cardiovascular risk in sleep apnea
Lunch Break, Fair and moderated Poster Session
Poster Session: Beyond Breathing: AI, Neurobiology & the Hidden Mechanisms of Sleep Apnea
Olli Polo, Unesta Research Centre, Tampere
Thomas Tolbert, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City
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- Arousability from Sleep as a Multidimensional Construct: Principal Component Analysis and Machine-Learning Based Feature Selection for Sex-Specific Phenotyping and Cardiovascular Risk Stratification
- Biomechanical Behavior of Oropharyngeal Structures During Apneic Events in Natural Sleep
- Diagnostic accuracy of an Under-mattress Sensor Mat versus Respiratory Polygraphy and Polysomnography for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Primary Care
- Economic Evaluation of Diagnostic Strategies for Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Adult Inpatients
- Effect of Exogenous Ketones on Hypercapnic Ventilatory Response
- Effects of High Flow Nasal Insufflation on Overnight Energy Expenditure in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis
- Introducing the Better OSCillation (BOSC) method for the detection of sleep spindles
- Novel breath detection algorithm to assess sleep-disordered breathing in a mouse model
- Opioid-induced Respiratory Depression and Biological Sex
- Oxygen desaturation from voluntary breath holds to test pulse oximeter performance related to skin tone
- Social snoring: increased snoring frequency during the weekend and impact of alcohol consumption
- Study on Genetic Differences in Susceptibility to Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Comorbidity with Hypertension Between Han and Uygur Nationalities
- Transection of the stylopharyngeus muscle and the pharyngeal branch of the vagus nerve produced different breathing patterns depending on the timing and combination of injury
- Validation of head position derived from an accelerometer embedded into a mandibular advancement device
- Variability in lowest SpO₂ during breath-holding maneuver: a pilot study
Session 3: Neurobiology of Sleep Disordered Breathing
Lucia Pinilla | Adelaide, Australia
Seva Polotsky | Washington DC, United States
From intermittent hypoxia to organ dysfunction: Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Adaptation and Maladaptation
- Melanocortin receptor 4 agonist, setmelanotide, treats opioid-induced respiratory depression
- Role of melanocortin 4 receptor signaling in genioglossus muscle activity
- A detailed description of respiratory activity of motor units of the human sternothyroid and sternohyoid muscles: Novel insights to inform targeted neurostimulation approaches for sleep apnoea
- Chronic Psychosocial Stress: A Primary Driver of Sleep Apnea Onset in Rats and Humans
- Effects of Kir6.2 containing KATP channels on sevoflurane-induced gasping in mice
End of Conference Sessions
Castle Brewery Evening with Dinner*
End of day 2
04. August 2026
Registration
Session 4: Consequences of Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Unrestorative Sleep
Akifumi Kishi | Tokyo, Japan
Closing the loop: how treating sleep disorders restores the circadian BP rhythm and improves prognosis
- Electroencephalographic Response to Respiratory Events and Longitudinal Cognitive Decline in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- New metric of nocturnal hypoxemic burden predicts vascular risk after stroke: comparative analysis
- Sex-Specific Phenotypes of REM and NREM Hypoxic Burden Predict Differential Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Events
- Respiratory burden during sleep is associated with slow wave–heart rhythm decoupling
- Respiratory events proximity increases respiratory event-related cardiac electrophysiological responses in obstructive sleep apnea
Break
Session 5: Management of Patients with Sleep Disordered Breathing
Elisa Perger | Milan, Italy
David Rapoport | Mount Sinai, New York, United States
Optimizing positive airway pressure therapy: adherence, outcomes, and real-world evidence
- Treatment of Sleep Disordered Breathing in Pregnancy and Postpartum with CPAP and Mandibular Advancement Splints: Patient-Perceived Barriers and Facilitators
- Conversion of predominant sleep apnea type over time in ADVENT-HF
- Win Ratio Analysis for Peak-flow Adaptive Servo-ventilation in Treating Sleep Apnea in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction
- Effect of Positive Airway Pressure versus Nocturnal Supplemental Oxygen on Markers of Inflammation in Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- Effects of Daily Intermittent Hypercapnia on Sleep Quality in Veterans with Sleep-Disordered Breathing
Lunchbreak, Fair and moderated Poster Session
Poster Session: Why Sleep Apnea Matters: Cardiovascular Disease, Cognition & Patient Burden
Michael Arzt, Universitätsklinikum Regensburg
Michael Pfeifer, Barmherzige Brüder Regensburg
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- Determining the success of therapy for obstructive sleep apnea through measurement of oxygen saturation with the OtwoFellow™ pulse oxymetry ring
- Effects of perinatal administration of Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol on the development of sleep and breathing of postnatal rats
- Ethnic differences in sleep-disordered breathing and cardiometabolic profiles: harmonised analysis of SHIP and KoGES cohorts
- Load-related modulation of intercostal muscle activity in ageing and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Mental Health and Sleep Characteristics in Individuals with Untreated Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- Obstructive sleep apnea and longitudinal domain-specific cognitive decline in older adults: moderation by sex and APOE ε4
- OSA through the Lens of Allostasis
- Previous peripherally-located melanomas are more likely to be associated with cutaneous nocturnal intermittent hypoxaemia
- Randomized crossover withdrawal study on the effect of Adaptive Servo-Ventilation in Heart Failure Patients with preserved Ejection Fraction and Central Sleep Apnea on Nocturnal Blood Pressure: the VENT-HF I Blood Pressure study protocol
- Restoration of REM Sleep Is Linked to Reduced Fatigue in HFrEF Patients With Sleep Apnoea on Adaptive Servo-Ventilation
- Sleep Apnea Risk Predicts Hospital Readmission
- SLEEP APNOEA AND NOCTURNAL CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS: A SUBANALYSIS OF THE HYPNOLAUS STUDY
- Sleep Quality and Sleep-disordered Breathing in Patients with Ventricular Assist Devices
- Symptom Subtypes, Mental Health Burden, and Comorbidity Profiles in a Mixed-Severity Australian Sleep Clinic Cohort
- Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) holds exciting potential as a novel intervention for pregnancy morbidity, but this is not reflected in the respiratory event index (REI)
Session 6: Endotype-Guided Precision Treatment for Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Pedro Genta | São Paulo, Brazil
Clodagh Ryan | Toronto, Canada
The role of anti-obesity pharmacotherapy in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea
- Eszopiclone in Patients with Comorbid Insomnia and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (COMISA): A randomized double-blind trial
- The low arousal threshold endotype of obstructive sleep apnea is associated with symptoms of insomnia, anxiety, and depression.
- Upper Airway MRI of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients, With and Without Epiglottic Collapse
- Apnea Treat - Development and preclinical validation of a passive minimally invasive implant for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea
- Physiological determinants of apnea-hypopnea event duration after sulthiame in OSA patients: post-hoc analysis of a RCT
End of Conference Sessions
Summer cruise on the Danube with Dinner*
Awarding of Early-Career Researcher Travel Awards
End of cruise and day 3
05. August 2026
Registration
Session 7: Revisiting Central Sleep Apnea: Pathophysiology and Management
John R. Kimoff | Montreal, Canada
Maria Tafelmeier | Regensburg, Germany
Pathophysiology of central sleep apnea in heart failure and its implications for treatment
- Patent Foramen Ovale Closure in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: a Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial
- Effect of peak flow triggered adaptive servo-ventilation (ASVPF) on mortality in heart failure patients with prolonged Cheyne-Stokes respiratory cycle.
- Effect of Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Adaptive Servoventilation on Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction - A Subanalysis of the TEAM-ASV I Study
- Effects of transvenous phrenic nerve stimulation on nocturnal cardiac arrhythmias and heart rate in central sleep apnea
- All-cause mortality in patients indicated for Adaptive Servo Ventilation for Central Sleep Apnoea: A 5-year Follow-Up of the Prospective Multicentre Nationwide FACIL-VAA study.
Break
Session 8: Digital Sleep Science & Signal Innovation
Dagmar Krefting | Göttingen, Germany
Renaud Tamisier | Grenoble, Germany
Risk assessment 2030: new parameters from polysomnography and wearables as diagnostic tools for risk stratification
- Early Positive Airway Pressure Therapy Behaviour Patterns and Their Association With Adherence in European Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- SleepJEPA: A Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture Trained with At-Home Sleep Study Data Accurately Estimate Sleep Features and Long-Term Disease Risk
- Associations of Sleep Apnea Physiological Burdens with Large Language Model-Derived Obstructive Sleep apnea symptoms and risk factors
- Validation of oxygen desaturation event detection by a buccal mucosal oximeter
- High night-to-night variability in sleep apnoea severity is associated with prevalent cardiovascular events
Lunch Break & Fair
End of Symposium
*This evening event is financed by participant fees