The 12th Imperial College Symposium ‘Vascular endothelium: role in disease pathogenesis and as a therapeutic target’ takes place on Thursday December 3rd at Hammersmith House Conference Centre on the Hammersmith Campus. Keynote speakers at the event are:
Peter Carmeliet – University of Leuven, Belgium
“Third generation anti-angiogenic strategies: novel player, novel principals”
Mat Daemen – Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of Maastricht
“Hypoxia and microvessels in atherosclerosis”
John McVey – Thrombosis Research Institute, London
“Adenovirus has the X-factor”
Robin Choudhury – Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford
“Molecular MR imaging in atherosclerosis and vascular inflammation”
Ian Zachary – Centre for Cardiovascular Biology and Medicine, University College London
“The role of Neuropilin signalling in Endothelial and Tumour Cells”
Sara Rankin – Leukocyte Biology Section, NHLI, Imperial College London
“Selective mobilisation of progenitor cell subsets from the bone marrow”
Nick Brindle – Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester
“Angiopoietin signalling as a therapeutic target for control of blood vessel growth, regression and inflammation”
The deadline for registration is November 13th 2009. Further details and a registration form are available from Dr Cheryl Smythe: cdws100@yahoo.co.uk. The registration fee is £55 before 30th Oct 2009, and £75 after 30th Oct 2009. Please note that the registration fee will be re-funded for those attendees whose abstract is selected for oral presentation.