10th Annual Boston Angiogenesis Meeting

(above, l-r) Drs. Patricia A. D'Amore, BAM'08 Chair, and Rita A. Monahan-Earley amid other attendees  during a break from the conference.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agenda

8:00    Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45    Opening Remarks, Patricia D’Amore, Ph.D., Schepens Eye Research Institute

Session 1: Regulators of Angiogenesis
Moderator: Stella Kourembanas, M.D. Children’s Hospital Boston 

9:00        “Regulation of angiogenesis by the PGC-1 coactivators”
                 Zoltan Arany, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

9:30        “A novel tyrosine kinase-based pathway for regulation of hemangiogenesis”
                  Hyung Keun Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Schepens Eye Research Institute

10:00        “The molecular mechanisms of axon and vascular guidance”
                    Chenghua Gu, Ph.D., D.V.M., Harvard Medical School

10:30     Break   Breakout Room

Session 2: Angiogenesis in Pathology and Translation
Moderator:  Ira M. Herman, Ph.D., Tufts University School of Medicine

11:00        “Human adipose tissue angiogenesis in metabolic disease"
                   Silvia Corvera, M.D., University of Massachusetts Medical Center

11:30        “Non-invasive molecular imaging, lessons from invading leukocytes”
                   Ali Hafezi-Moghadam, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

12:00        “Tissue engineering: Its roots in angiogenesis”
                    Joseph Vacanti, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital

12:30    Lunch   Breakout Room

Session 3: Tumor Angiogenesis
Moderator: Harold Dvorak, M.D.,  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

1:45        “Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin promotes breast cancer progression: 
                Mechanistic studies and clinical implications”   
                Jiang Yang, Ph.D., Children’s Hospital Boston

2:15        “Tetraspanin CD151 contributes at multiple levels to tumor progression”
                 Martin Hemler, Ph.D.,  Dana Farber Cancer Institute

2:45        “Perivascular nitric oxide gradients normalize tumor vasculature”
                 Dai Fukumura, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital

3:15     Break   Breakout Room

3:45        “Targeting the tumor stroma through PPARs”
                 Dipak Panigrahy, M.D., Children’s Hospital Boston 

Keynote Speaker
4:15    Marsha Moses, Ph.D., Children’s Hospital Boston
“Molecular regulation of angiogenesis: From the angiogenic switch through tumor progress, implications for therapy, diagnosis and prognosis”

5:00 - 6:30  Reception   Breakout Room

Directions