Pulmonary Vascular Disease and Right Ventricular Dysfunction: Current Concepts and Future Therapies
September 10 - 15, 2012
2 Portola Plaza
Monterey, CA 93940
Organized by Georg Hansmann of Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Stephen L. Archer of the University of Chicago Medical Center and Margaret R. MacLean of the University of Glasgow, this four-day conference will:
- Convene with a keynote address by Stefanie Dimmeler of the University of Frankfurt speaking on "The Role of Stem Cells in Angiogenesis and Vascular Repair" on the evening of Monday, September 10, followed by four days of informative plenary sessions, workshops and poster sessions;
- Bring together basic scientists and vascular biologists who are applying metabolomics and proteomics to identify novel biomarkers, clinical trialists who will discuss new designs and preliminary results of clinical trials, clinicians, scientific leaders from industry, and regulatory and funding agencies to improve understanding of pulmonary hypertension;
- Develop future strategies to cure this fatal disease and present cutting-edge technologies, innovations and discoveries with potential to be translated into clinical practice in the near future.
Scholarships and Underrepresented Minority Scholarships are available for students and postdoctoral fellows and are awarded based primarily on the quality of the applicant's abstract. Short talks will also be selected by the organizers from submitted abstracts. Abstracts however are not required to attend the meeting.
Current list of speakers:
- Stephen L. Archer, University of Chicago Medical Center, USA
- Andrew H. Baker, University of Glasgow, UK
- Kenneth D. Bloch, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
- Daniel Burkhoff, Columbia University, USA
- Peter F. Carmeliet, University of Leuven, Belgium
- Stefanie Dimmeler, University of Frankfurt, Germany
- Jeffrey Fineman, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- H. Ardeschir Ghofrani, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
- Georg Hansmann, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, USA
- Paul Hassoun, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Marc Humbert, Hôpital Antoine-Béclère, AP-HP, France
- Stella Kourembanas, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, USA
- Mark A. Krasnow, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
- Titus Kuehne, German Heart Institute, Germany
- Joseph Loscalzo, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA
- Margaret R. MacLean, University of Glasgow, UK
- Evangelos D. Michelakis, University of Alberta, Canada
- Jane A. Mitchell, Imperial College, UK
- Timothy M. Moore, NHLBI, National Institutes of Health, USA
- Nicholas Morrell, University of Cambridge, UK
- Mark Nicolls, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
- Andrew Redington, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
- Stuart Rich, University of Chicago Medical Center, USA
- Duncan Stewart, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
- Bernard Thébaud, University of Alberta, Canada
- Patricia Thistlethwaite, University of California, San Diego, USA
- Matthew Thomas, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, UK
- Norbert Voelkel, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
- Martin R. Wilkins, Imperial College London, UK
More Information: http://www.keystonesymposia.org/meetings/viewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=1139&subTab=reg
