Conference Description
The Angiogenesis GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
This Angiogenesis Gordon Research Conference (GRC), “Angiogenesis and angiostability in development, disease and engineered tissues”, and the accompanying Gordon Research Seminar (GRS, organized by and for trainees) “Harnessing developmental angiogenesis to instruct cell therapies and regenerative medicine” are designed to explore the underlying hypothesis that the vast heterogeneity of blood vessels is driven and supported by unique molecular and cellular mechanisms ensuring their proper formation and stability. A better understanding of how and why blood vessels of different organs, sizes and morphologies grow and maintain their architecture, despite being under unrelenting hemodynamic assault, is critical to inform vascularization of engineered or regenerating tissues, and to normalize vascular malformations. The goals of the conference are therefore to bridge existing knowledge and communication gaps between researchers at all levels (students, postdocs, junior and senior scientists in academia and industry) who study angiogenesis and angiostability, and those focusing on vascular diseases, stem cell biology and disease-associated vascular dysfunction, including cancer, cardiovascular diseases and stroke. These fields have recently developed paradigms, tools and models to aid this goal, and this integration is predicted to move science forward towards timely translation of basic discoveries. A complimentary GRS pre-meeting will also be included and will be organized by trainees and for trainees, with limited guidance from GRC Chairs and faculty mentors that will attend the GRS. The GRS will feature presentations of trainee work, to facilitate networking and provide them with a peer group as they transition into the larger meeting. The associated GRS will therefore support the overall goals of the meeting, with an emphasis on trainees.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by April 1, 2023. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: Angiogenesis and Beyond: Building Vessels in Healthy and Diseased Tissues
Discussion Leaders
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Luisa Iruela-Arispe (Northwestern University, United States)
Speakers
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Eli Keshet (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
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Jennifer Lewis (Harvard University, United States)
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Josef Penninger (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Endothelial Control of Stem Cell Quiescence, Proliferation and Differentiation
Discussion Leaders
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Anna Randi (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
Speakers
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Shahin Rafii (Weill Cornell Medicine, United States)
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Shiri Gur-Cohen (School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, United States)
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Stefania Nicoli (Yale University, United States)
Building Vessels in Tissues and Organoids
Discussion Leaders
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Napoleone Ferrara (University of California, San Diego, United States)
Speakers
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Ying Zheng (University of Washington, United States)
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Lena Claesson-Welsh (Uppsala University, Sweden)
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Milica Radisic (University of Toronto, Canada)
Angiostability: Vessels in Aging, Inflammation and Disease
Discussion Leaders
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Laura Benjamin (OncXerna, United States)
Speakers
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Hellmut Augustin (European Center for Angioscience (ECAS), Heidelberg University and German Cancer Research Center, Germany)
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Yoshiaki Kubota (Keio University School of Medicine, Japan)
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Yuval Dor (Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Israel)
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Christer Betsholtz (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Deciphering Molecular Mechanisms of Vascular Anomalies
Discussion Leaders
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Rong Wang (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
Speakers
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Miikka Vikkula (de Duve Institute / UCLouvain, Belgium)
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Mariona Graupera (Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, Spain)
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Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve (INSERM U1141, Paris Cité University, France, France)
Building Vessels in The Embryo
Discussion Leaders
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Victoria Bautch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)
Speakers
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Carmen Ruiz de Almodovar (University of Bonn, Germany)
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Brant Weinstein (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, United States)
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Anne Eichmann (Yale School of Medicine, United States)
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Amber Stratman (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, United States)
Mechanotransduction and Blood Vessels: Structure, Mechanics and Adaptation
Discussion Leaders
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Mary Dickinson (Baylor College of Medicine, United States)
Speakers
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Luisa Iruela-Arispe (Northwestern University, United States)
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Salim Seyfried (University of Potsdam, Germany)
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Julia Mack (UCLA, United States)
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Li-Kun Phng (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)
Organotypic Specialization of Endothelial Cells
Discussion Leaders
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Nathan Lawson (University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, United States)
Speakers
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Ralf Adams (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Germany)
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Mark Kahn (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
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Rui Benedito (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Spain)
New Frontiers in Cardiovascular Regeneration
Discussion Leaders
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Stefanie Dimmeler (Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany)
Speakers
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Brian Black (UCSF, United States)
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Miguel Torres (Spanish National Cardiovascular Research Centre (CNIC), Spain)
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Ruben Marin Juez (University of Montreal, Canada)
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizers
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Karina Yaniv (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)