Molecular Mechanisms of Angiogenesis
Judah Folkman (Children's Hospital, Boston), discussion leader
Noel P. Bouck (Northwestern University, Chicago), "Control of angiogenesis by tumor suppressor genes"
Webster Cavanee (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, LaJolla), "Angiogenesis in human brain tumor
progression"
Douglas A. Hanahan (University of California, San Franscisco), "Control of the angiogenic switch"
Angiogenesis in Health and Disease
Bruce Zetter (Children's Hospital, Boston), discussion leader
David Cheresh (Scripps Institute, LaJolla), "Cell adhesion, integrins, and angiogenesis"
E. Helene Sage (University of Washington, Seattle), "Regulatory pathways of vascular morphogenesis"
Werner Risau (Max Planck Institute, Bad Neuheim, Germany), "Molecular mechanisms of embryonic and tumor
angiogenesis"
Microcirculation in Health and Disease
Rakesh K. Jain (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston), discussion leader, "Tumor microcirculation"
Rober Melder (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston), "Leucocyte-endothelial interactions in tumors"
Konrad Messner (University of Munich, Germany, "Ischemia reperfusion: Evaluation of therapeutic concepts"
Neil Granger (Louisiana State University, Shreveport), "Nitric oxide modulates microvascular permeability and
leucocyte-endothelial cell adhesion"
New Insights from Advances in Microvascular Technology
Marcos Itaglietta (University of California, San Diego), discussion leader, "Oxygen consumption by endothelial
cells and perivascular tissue in vivo: Applications of phosphorus quenching"
Makoto Suematsu (Keio University, Tokyo), "Roles of low molecular monoxides in regulation of organ
microvascular function: Applications of multifunctionl digital microfluography"
David Birk (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston), "Measuring microscopic transport phenomena in living
tissue using fluorescence photobleaching"
Role of Host Cells in Angiogenesis
Isaiah Fidler (M. D. Anderson, Houston), discussion leader, Control of angiogenesis by the organ
microenvironment"
Steven J. Galli (Beth Israel Hospital, Boston), "Effects of mast cells on angiogenesis and the microcirculation"
Patricia D'Amore (Children's Hospital, Boston), "Pericytes and growth factors in the control of angiogenesis"
VEGF/WPF
Harold Dvorak(Beth Israel Hospital, Boston), discussion leader, "VEGF/VPF: Microvascular permeability as an
early step in angiogenesis"
Napoleone Ferrara (Genentech, San Francisco), "Regulation of vessel growth by VEGF"
Eli Keshet (Hebrew University, Israel), "Hypoxia-driven angiogenesis"
Anti-Angiogenesis
Lance Liotta (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda), discussion leader
William Stetler-Stevenson (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda), "Balance of positive and negative regulators
of extracellular matrix turnover in suppression of angiogenesis"
Philip Thorpe (University of Texas, Dallas), "Tumor infarction with immunoconjugates directed against tumor
vasculature"
Carl Hellerquist (Vanderbilt University, Nashville/CarboMed, Inc), "Evolution of an anti-neovascularization
agent from a neonatal pathogen"
Keynote Address
Judah Folkman, "Angiogenic control of tumor dormancy"
Microcirculation in Genetically Engineered Animals
Michael Gimbrone (Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston), discussion leader, "Genetically engineered vascular
endothelium"
Thomas Tedder (Duke University, Durham), "Leucocyte-endothelial interactions in L-selectin null mice"
Denisa Wagner (Center for Blood Research, Boston), "Interactions of leucocytes and platelets with endothelium
in P-selectin null mice"
Mark Fishman (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston), "Genetic dissection of developing vasculature in the
zebrafish"
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