• Chair: Celeste Simon, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute
  "bHLH-PAS Proteins, Hypoxia & Vascular Development"
• Mark Fishman, Massachusetts General Hospital
  "Genetic Dissection of Vessel Patterning in Zebrafish"
• Harold Dvorak, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  " Heterogeneity of the Angiogenic Response Induced by VPF/VEGF"
• Brian Helmke, University of Pennsylvania, Short Presentation
  "Shear stress-induced cytoskeletal displacement in living endothelial cells"

• Chair: Charles Little, Medical University of South Carolina
  "Endothelial Cells Behavior During Formation of the Primary Vasculature"
• Kari Alitalo, University of Helsinki
  "Regulating VEGFs Angiogenesis Verses Lymphangiogenesis"

• Peter Carmelait, University of Leuven
  "VEGF and P1GF: Angiogenic or Neurotrophic Factors?"
• George Yancopoulos, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  "Complementary and Coordinated Roles of VEGF and Angiopoietins"
• Carrie Ambler, Univeristy of North Carolina, Short presentation
  "Mouse-Chick Chimeras Reveal Vascular Potential of Mammalian Presomitic Mesoderm"

• Chair: Denisa Wagner, Harvard Medical School
  "Adhesion Interactions in the Vasculature"
• Klaus Ley, University of Virginia, School of Medicine
  "Integrins & Selectins in Inflammation and Atherosclerosis"
• Rakesh Jain, Massachusetts General Hospital
  " Tumor Angiogenesis and Microcirculation"
• Robert Benerzra, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
  "The Role of Id Proteins in Angiogenesis"

• Chair: Luisa Iruela-Arispe, University of California, Los Angeles
  "Regulation of Vascular Morphogenesis by ECM-An Old Theme with New Paradigms"
• Judith Varner, University of California, San Diego
  "Fibronectin - Binding Integrins in Angiogenesis"

• William Stetler-Stevenson, National Institutes of Health
  "Metalloproteinase Inhibitors in Regulation of Angiogenesis"
• Nancy Boudreau, University of California, San Francisco, Short presentation
  "A Complementary Role for Hox A3 in Endothelial Cell Migration and Angiogenesis" & "Hox D10 Inhibits VEGF andTumor-Induced angiogenesis in the Chick Chorioallantoic Membrane"

• Chair: Gary Owens, University of Virginia
  "Rho Dependent Activation of Smooth Muscle Differentiation Marker Genes."
• Mark Majesky, Baylor College of Medicine
  "Coronary SMC Differentiation from Proepicardial Cells"
• Levon Khachigian, University of New South Wales
  "Catalytic DNA as Tools to Define Transcription Factor Function in the Vascular Response to Injury"
• Pieter Koolwijk, Gaubius Laboratory TNO-PG, Short presentation
  "Cleavage of the u-PA Binding Domain of the u-PA Receptor by Endothelial Cell-Derived Matrix Metalloprotease(s): Implication for Angiogenesis in 3-Dimensional Fibrin Matrices in vitro"

• Chair: Martin Schwartz, The Scripps Research Institute
  "Integrin Signaling in Endothelial Cells"
• Bradford Berk, University of Rochester
  "Flow-Mediated Signal Transduction: Kinases and Phosphatases"

• Shawn Coughlin, University of California, San Francisco
  " Thrombin Signaling: Molecular Mechanisms and Roles in vivo."
• Masashi Yanagisawa, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  "Endothelin Signaling in Cardiovascular Homeostasis"
• John Hood, The Scripps Research Institute, Short presentation
  "Raf as a Signaling Hub During Angiogenesis"

• Chair: Leslie Parise, University of North Carolina
  "New Mechanisms of Sickle RBC Adhesion"
• Peter Libby, Brigham and Women's Hospital
  "Molecular Determinants of the Stability of Atherosclerotic Plaques"
• Michael Reidy, University of Washington
  "Smooth Muscle Cells and Signal Transduction - Identification of Signaling Pathway Necessary for Proliferation"
• David Ginsburg, University of Michigan
  "A Genetic Modifier of Murine von Willebrand Factor Resulting from Altered Lineage Specific Expression of a Glycosyltrasferase"

• Chair: Jeffrey Isner, Tufts Medical School
  "Endothelial Cell Recruitment in Angiogenesis and Arterial Injury"
• Mark Bednarski, Stanford University
  "In-vivo Molecular Imaging of Vascular Receptors: Therapeutic Implications in the Design of Vascular Targeted Radiotherapy"

• Napolean Ferrara, Genentech, Inc.
  "VEGF and Angiogenesis"
• Richard Hynes, Massachusettes Institute of Technology
  "To be announced"
• Ed de Muick, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Short presentation
  "Conserved Flow-Induced Arterial Remodeling Despite Impaired NO-Dependent Vasodilation in Atherosclerotic and Hypercholesterolemic Mice"

• Leroy Hood, University of Washington
  "Genomics, Proteomics and Systems Biology: New Approaches to Vascular Cell Biology"

Party to follow keynote lecture