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ANGIOGENESIS

 

 

August 2-7, 2009
Salve Regina University
Newport, RI

 

Chair:
Donald M. McDonald

 

Vice Chair:
Lena Claesson-Welsh

 

 

Application Deadline: Applications for this meeting must be submitted by July 12, 2009.

Please apply early, as some conferences become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the conference is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. You will still be able to submit your application. However, it will only be considered by the Conference Chair if there are cancellations, making more seats available.

 

This conference will emphasize mechanisms of angiogenesis and microvascular remodeling and their functional consequences in development and disease. Because angiogenesis and vascular remodeling are recognized as essential for tumor growth and progression of chronic disease, understanding the biological principles and factors that drive or inhibit blood vessel formation has gained importance. Increasing use of angiogenesis inhibitors in cancer and eye disease not only is enabling assessment of efficacy but is also revealing previously unrecognized features of vascular plasticity and favorable and potentially unfavorable consequences of blocking angiogenesis. The conference will explore current views, controversies, and puzzles concerning the regulation of angiogenesis, by examining state-of-the-art of molecular mechanisms of blood vessel formation, maturation and regression. The conference will also examine the attributes and limitations of current strategies and downstream effects of promoting or stopping angiogenesis under pathological conditions.
 

 

 

Keynote Presentation: Angiogenesis - Puzzles, Paradoxes & Controversies
(Kari Alitalo)
Advances in Endothelial Cell Biology in Angiogenesis
(Lena Claesson-Welsh / Eckhard Lammert / Raghu Kalluri / Michael Detmar / Shahin Rafii) Advances in VEGF Biology in Angiogenesis
(Masabumi Shibuya / Luisa Iruela-Arispe / Holger Gerhardt / Napoleone Ferrara)
Advances in Non-VEGF Driven Angiogenesis
(Christer Betsholtz / Hellmut Augustin / Ralf Adams / Gou Young Koh / Michele De-Palma)
Advances in Signaling in Angiogenesis
(Michael Simons / Peter Carmeliet / Jan Kitajewski / Laura Benjamin)
Advances in Angiogenesis in Development
(Roy Bicknell / Brant Weinstein / Anne Eichmann / Dean Li / Eli Keshet)
Advances in Endothelial Barrier Function
(Harold Dvorak / David Cheresh / Dietmar Vestweber / Elisabetta Dejana)
Advances in Angiogenesis in Tumor Invasion & Metastasis
(Gavin Thurston / Peter Friedl / Oriol Casanovas / Gabriele Bergers / Sandra McAllister)
Advances in Angiogenesis Inhibition
(Gerhard Christofori / Robert Kerbel / Rakesh Jain / Herb Hurwitz)