The annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference will be held online only this year, the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) announced Wednesday. TCT was originally scheduled to take place Sept. 23-27 in Miami. Now, as other cardiology conferences have done amid the COVID-19 pandemic, TCT will be held as a virtual event, called “TCT Connect,” Oct. 14-18. “Every year, we look forward to bringing together the interventional cardiology community at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) conference,” the announcement says. “To ensure the health and safety of all our attendees, CRF has transitioned the in-person conference to a compelling and unique virtual experience – TCT Connect – broadcast online October 14-18, 2020.” TCT Connect will include late-breaking science, live cases, virtual training “and countless opportunities to learn and engage with the brightest minds in interventional cardiovascular medicine,” the announcement says. The first cardiology conference to switch to an online-only format was the American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions in March. The last major cardiology conference to be held in person was Cardiovascular Research Technologies (CRT) in February. EuroPCR was originally scheduled to be held last week in Paris, but it will instead be held online, renamed the “PCR E-Course,” June 25-27. Other major cardiology conferences that have been converted to virtual meetings include: Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, July 17-18 American Society of Echocardiography, Aug. 8-10 European Society of Cardiology, Aug. 29 through Sept. 1 Heart Failure Society of America, Oct. 2-5