BAM 2024 Symposium Schedule
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM
Light Breakfast
9:20 AM – 10:50 AM
Latest Trends in Tumor Angiogenesis Research
Rakesh K. Jain (MGH)
Special Lecture: "Improving Immunotherapy of Glioblastoma: Emerging Insights and Strategies" (30 min)
Mario Suva (MGH)
"Dissecting Human Gliomas by Single-cell and Spatial Genomics" (20 min)
Diane Bielenberg (CHB)
"Blood Vessel Permeability" (20 min)
Roger Kamm (MIT)
"Ex vivo Modeling of Blood Vessels" (20 min)
10:50 AM – 11:10 AM
Coffee Break
11:10 AM – 12:30 PM
Angiogenesis in Non-Malignant Diseases
Nathan Lawson (UMass)
“Dissecting the Developmental Biology of Vascular Anomalies" (20 min)
Patricia D’Amore (Schepens)
"A Role for the Vascular Glycocalyx in Endothelial Biology" (20 min)
Mark W. Feinberg (BWH)
"Angiogenesis in Ischemic Cardiovascular Dsease" (20 min)
Michael Rogers (CHB)
"Why is the Anthrax Toxin Receptor Required for Endothelial Cell Chemotaxis?" (20 min)
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch Break
1:30 PM – 2:50 PM
Clinical Translation of Antiangiogenesis
Scott Plotkin (MGH)
Zohreh Amoozgar (MGH)
Vincent Xu (DFCI)
"Anti-angiogenesis Therapies in Renal Cell Carcinoma: Opportunities and Challenges" (20 min)
Mark Leick (MGH)
"Targeted Delivery of a VEGF‐blocking scFv by CAR-T cells" (20 min)
2:50 PM – 3:10 PM
Coffee Break
3:10 PM – 4:50 PM
Open Session: The Future of Angiogenesis Research - "Blitz" talks
Trevor Krolak (HMS)
Somin Lee (MGH)
Xin Liu (MGH)
Inhibiting B-cell-mediated Immunosuppression to Enhance the Efficacy of STING Agonism in HCC (10 min)
Tim Dorweiler (CHB)
Tomofumi Ando (MGH)
"Treatment-induced Liver-resident NK Cell Activation Is a Therapeutic Target for Achieving Efficacy of Anti-PD-1 Therapy with a VEGFR Kinase Inhibitor in HCC" (10 min)
Keynote lecture:
Tim Padera (MGH)
“Lymphatic vessel function in health and disease” (45 min)
Giovanni Armenise Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School