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ANTIANGIOGENESIS CONFERENCE


AGENDA

Friday October 8th - Day One

7:45 Registration and Buffet Breakfast
8:30 Welcome and Introductions
8:45 President’s Keynote
Achieving cancer without disease: antiangiogenic therapy for cancer prevention
William W. Li, M.D., The Angiogenesis Foundation

Session I: NEW TARGETS & STRATEGIES

9:30 Novel non-hypoxia mediated mechanisms for tumor angiogenesis
Lynn Hlatky, Ph.D., Tufts University School of Medicine
10:00 ALK1-receptor: a novel antiangiogenic and antitumor target
Nicolas Solban, Ph.D., Acceleron Pharma
10:30 MicroRNAs as regulators of angiogenesis
Nathan Lawson, Ph.D., UMASS Medical School
11:00 Break
11:15 Angiogenesis Film
Michael Astrachan, XVIVO Scientific Animation
11:30 Drug conjugation for improved delivery of angiogenesis inhibitors
Julie A. Olson, Ph.D., Mersana Therapeutics
12:00 Expanding delivery of RNAi therapeutics
Tatiana Novobrantseva, Ph.D., Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
12:30 Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A
1:00 Networking Luncheon

Session II: BIOMARKERS & IMAGING

2:15 Integrin and other tracers for angiogenesis imaging
Matthew S. Morrison, Ph.D., GE Healthcare
2:45 Clinical markers of antiangiogenic therapy in platelet proteome
Giannoula Klement, M.D., FRCPC, Tufts Medical Center
3:15 Endothelial progenitor cells as systemic sensors of breast cancer
Raj Tiwari, Ph.D., New York Medical College
3:45 Biomarker identification in antiangiogenesis cancer trials
Peter Wilson, Ph.D., Keck School of Medicine of USC
4:15 Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A
5:00 Cocktail Reception & Networking

Saturday October 9th - Day Two

7:45 Registration and Buffet Breakfast
8:15 Summary of Day 1 and Opening Remarks

Session III: TRENDS IN ANGIOPREVENTION

8:30 Chemoprevention of esophagus and colon cancer with berries: antiangiogenic actions
Gary D. Stoner, Ph.D., Ohio State University
9:00 Omega 3 PUFAs in angiogenesis
Jing Chen, Ph.D., Children’s Hospital Boston

9:30 Dietary impact on cancer epigenetics and angiogenesis
Nancy Emenaker, Ph.D., RD, National Cancer Institute
10:00 Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A
10:15 Break
10:30 Bob Paul
Metastatic Cancer Survivor

Session IV: CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT

10:45 Special Health Policy Lecture: The beginning of a new era - guidance for comparative effectiveness and patient centered outcomes for oncology innovation
Kenneth R. Carson, M.D., Washington University School of Medicine
11:15 Special Health Policy Lecture:  Health policy issues in targeted oncology
Brian P. Carey, JD, Foley Hoag LLP
11:45 Controversies on anti-VEGF therapy for breast cancer
Erica Mayer, M.D., Dana Farber Cancer Institute
12:15 Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A
12:30 Networking Luncheon
1:45 Antiangiogenic therapy response versus pseudo-response in brain cancer
A. Gregory Sorensen, M.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
2:15 Next generation antiangiogenic strategies for renal cell carcinoma
Michael B. Atkins, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center
2:45 Integrin-targeting for advanced malignancies
David A. Reardon, M.D., Duke University
3:15 Sequential angiogenic blockade for the treatment of recurrent cancer
Joyce F. Liu, M.D., Dana Farber Cancer Institute
3:45 Moderated Panel Discussion and Q&A
4:00 Break
4:15 Young Investigator’s Session: Selected Presentations

CADASIL pathophysiology in mice and humans with hypomorphic Notch 3 mutations
Joseph Arboleda, Ph.D., Schepens Eye Research Institute

Antiangiogenic and Anti-Invasive Effects of Proton Irradiation
Swati Girdhani, Ph.D., Tufts University School of Medicine

The receptor tyrosine kinase Axl mediates VEGF/VEGFR-2-induced PI3K/Akt activation in endothelial cell
Guoxiang Ruan, Ph.D., Schepens Eye Research Institute

5:30 Closing Remarks & Close of Conference
 

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Registration fees for the 2-day conference.

Industry $549
Clinical/Academic $249
Student $99
 
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