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INTERNATIONAL ANTIANGIOGENIC CONFERENCE


PRELIMINARY AGENDA

Saturday October 6, 2012 – Day One

7:30 Registration and Buffet Breakfast
8:00 Welcome and Introductions
8:15 Future of Medicine Opening Keynote

Session I: New Targets and Strategies

9:00 Extracellular matrix, inflammation, and the angiogenic response
9:30 Stromal endothelial cell regulation of cancer progression
10:00 Platelet-mediated pro- and antiangiogenic signaling in cancer and health
Giannoula Klement-Lakka, M.D., Tufts University
10:45 Multimedia Presentation: Visualizing angiogenesis
11:00 VEGF165(B): endogenous regulator of canonical VEGF pathways
David Bates, Ph.D., University of Bristol (UK)
11:30 Chromatin insulator binding factor (CTCF) as a regulator of VEGF
12:00 Angiogenesis and immunosuppression
George Coukos, M.D., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
1:00 Networking Luncheon

Session II: Angiogenesis Biomarkers

2:15 Human vascular mapping for angiogenesis target and markers
Wadhi Arap, M.D., Ph.D., University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2:45 Adipose-derived progenitor cells and cancer progression
3:15 Pericytes as markers for angiogenesis and antiangiogenesis
4:00 Emergence of biomarker correlates for VEGF-directed therapies: pVEGF-A
Gordon Jayson, FRCP, Ph.D, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research
4:30 Integrin-based tracer imaging to monitor tumor response to antiangiogenic therapy
Peter Choyke, M.D., National Cancer Institute
5:00 VEGF-C and VEGF-D mediators of anti-VEGF resistance in colorectal cancer
6:00 Networking Reception

Sunday October 7, 2012 – Day Two

7:30 Registration and Buffet Breakfast

Session III: Trends in Angioprevention

8:15 Obesity-induced angiogenesis and increased cancer risk
Jian-Wei Gu, M.D., University of Mississippi
8:45 Caloric restriction and control of tumor angiogenesis and metastases
9:15 Micronutrient attenuation of prostate cancer angiogenesis
10:30 Patient Advocacy Lecture
Kendal Seidel, Ovarian Cancer Patient Advocate

Session IV: Clinical Development

10:45 Targeting vascular endothelial growth factor receptor in thyroid cancer
11:15 Targeting the vasculature in lung cancer
11:45 Patient Advocacy Lecture
12:00 Luncheon
1:15 Anti-angiogenic therapies and Prostate Cancer
Matthew R. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital
1:45 Antiangiogenic therapy in adnexal cancer
Robert Burger, M.D., Fox Chase Cancer Center
2:15 Targeting angiogenesis in sarcoma
3:00 Novel antiangiogenic therapies in colorectal cancer
3:30 Novel VEGF/MET targeting approaches to metastatic breast cancer
Sara Tolaney, M.D., MPH, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
4:30 Future of Medicine Closing Keynote
Why don’t we get more cancer: microenvironment and cancer
Mina Bissell, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory
5:30 Closing Remarks & Close of Conference
 

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REGISTRATION

You will receive an email confirmation of your registration after payment.

Select from the categories below to register for the conference.

Industry $549
Clinical/Academic $249
Student $119
Patient

The registration fee includes

  • Access to both days of the conference
  • Access to exhibit booth area
  • Conference materials
  • Breakfast on both days
  • Lunch on both days
  • Cocktail reception/networking event on Saturday evening, October 6th
 
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