The congress will take place from 4 to 7 April 2018 with the conference topic "Cardiology 2018 - from basic research to high-performance medicine". Congress President is Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Eschenhagen from Hamburg. All submissions below the age of 35 are automatically nominated for the Hans-Blömer-Young Investigator Award for clinical cardiovascular research or the Rudi-Busse-Young Investigator Award for experimental cardiovascular research . For this it is absolutely necessary to state the date of birth of the first author. The abstracts are selected on the basis of the evaluator ratings. All other abstracts will be assigned to a free lecture session or a poster session.