Eye-Opener Sessions for Trainees
There is limited seating for these sessions. Participants must pre-register (no additional fee). Sessions begin at 7:30 and will conclude by 8:15. Since there is limited seating in each session, please be considerate of others and choose no more than two sessions. These sessions are specifically geared toward trainees (students and postdocs or equivalent).
Meet-the-Professor Breakfasts
Monday's breakfast will feature:
Patricia A. D'Amore, Schepens Eye Research Institute/Harvard Medical School
Harold F. Dvorak, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
Jan Kitajewski, University of Illinois Chicago
Susan Quaggin, Northwestern University
Grietje Molema, University Medical Center Groningen
Tuesday's breakfast will feature:
Lena Claesson-Welsh, Uppsala University
David Harrison, Vanderbilt University
Paul Kubes, University of Calgary
Asrar Malik, University of Illinois Chicago
Miikka Vikkula, de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain
Wednesday's breakfast will feature:
Michelle Bendeck, University of Toronto
Joyce Bischoff, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Brant Weinstein, NICHD/NIH
Klaus Ley, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Calum MacRae, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Opportunities in Cardiovascular Research
Monday, October 31
An NIH Perspective
Guest Speaker: Zorina Galis, NHLBI/NIH
An Indusctry Perspective
Guest Speaker: Jeremy Duffield, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Tuesday, November 1
An Editor's Perspective
Guest Speaker: Alan Daugherty, University of Kentucky, Editor-in-Chief: ATVB
Wednesday, November 2
An NIH Perspective
Guest Speaker: Young Oh, NHLBI/NIH
An Indusctry Perspective
Guest Speaker: Eric Bachman, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Women in Science: A Panel Discussion
Tuesday, November 1
Gabriele Bergers, University of California, San Francisco
Patricia D'Amore, Schepens Eye Research Institute/Harvard Medical School
Elisabetta Dejana, University of Uppsala
Luisa Iruela-Arispe, University of California, Los Angeles