Tenth Annual Boston Angiogenesis Meeting

Friday, November 7, 2008

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Starr Center, Schepens Eye Research Institute

Patricia A. D'Amore, Ph.D., Organizer

Keynote Speaker:

Marsha A. Moses, Ph.D.
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School,
Children's Hospital Boston

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Agenda

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

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

Moderators

Harold F. Dvorak, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Ira Herman, Ph.D., Tufts University School of Medicine
Stella Kourembanas, M.D., Children's Hospital

Speakers

Zoltan Arany, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
“Regulation of angiogenesis by the PGC-1 coactivators”
Silvia Corvera, M.D., University of Massachusetts Medical Center
“Human adipose tissue angiogenesis in metabolic disease”
Dai Fukumura, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
“Perivascular nitric oxide gradients normalize tumor vasculature”
Chenguha Gu, Ph.D., D.V.M., Harvard Medical School
“The molecular mechanisms of axon and vascular guidance”
Ali Hafezi-Moghadam, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
“Non-invasive molecular imaging, lessons from invading leukocytes”
Martin Hemler, Ph.D., Dana Farber Cancer Institute
“Tetraspanin CD151 contributes at multiple levels to tumor progression”
Hyung Keun Lee, M.D., Ph.D., Schepens Eye Research Institute
“A novel tyrosine kinase-based pathway for regulation of hemangiogenesis”
Dipak Panigrahy, M.D., Children’s Hospital
“Targeting the tumor stroma through PPARs”
Joseph Vacanti, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
“Tissue engineering: Its roots in angiogenesis”
Jiang Yang, Ph.D., Children’s Hospital
“Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin promotes breast cancer progression: Mechanistic studies and clinical implications”

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