ICVBM Retreat Information

Winners of the Dr. Robert C. Miller Award for Excellence in Vascular Research, awarded September 25, 2006. Photo: From left, Dr. Keith March, Jenny Choy, Lauren Bell, Dmitry Traktuev, Dr. Robert Miller

Scientist Level: Jenny Susana Choy, MD - “A Novel Strategy for Increasing the Wall Thickness of Coronary Venules Prior to Retroperfusion”

Postdoctoral Level: Dmitry Traktuev, Ph.D. – “A Sub-Population of CD34-positive Adipose Stromal Cells Occupies a Perivascular Niche and Possesses all the Hallmarks of Pericytes”

Graduate Level: Lauren N. Bell, “Hepatocyte Growth Factor in Adipose Tissue: Regulation of Angiogenesis and Vascular Growth”

Dr. Robert Miller, IUSM Class of 1959, was one of the scientists at Eli Lilly who discovered folic acid. Dr. Miller endowed the Award that bears his name so that funds will be available to make cash awards on an annual basis to recognize excellence in vascular research as determined by the Director of the Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine. Dr. Miller passed away on 3/4/07.

Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine
2006 Retreat
September 25, 2006
Eli Lilly

8:00 - 8:30
Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 8:45
Opening Remarks – Sotirios Karathanasis and Keith March

Stem Cells: Part I

8:45 - 9:00

Keith March, Adipose Derived Stem Cells & Vascular Biology

9:00 - 9:15
Edward Srour, Adult Common Pluripotent Stem Cells in Mouse Model

9:15 - 9:30
Merv Yoder, Porcine Blood and Blood Vessels Harbor Endothelial Colony Forming Cells

9:30 - 10:00
Key Note Speaker – David Moller, Eli Lilly

10:00 - 10:30
Key Note Speaker – Ghassan Kassab, IUPUI Biomedical Engineering

10:30 - 10:45
BREAK

Stem Cells: Part II

10:45 - 11:00
Dave Ingram, Clinical Implications of Re-Defining Endothelial Progenitor Cells

11:00 - 11:15 Jalees Rehman, EPCs: Endothelial Progenitor Cells or Endothelial Paracrine Cells?

11:15 - 11:30 Dongming Hou, Translational Cardiovascular Research: Using Swine Models to Plan Human Therapies

11:30 - 11:45 Elliot Rosen, Physiologic Roles of Coagulation Factors

11:45 - Noon Matthias Clauss, Modulation of Signaling Pathways by Continuous Activation with TNF-alpha: Implications for Angiogenesis in Disease

Noon - 12:30
Dr. Robert C. Miller Awards for Excellence in Vascular Research

12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH and POSTER SESSION

Metabolic Syndrome

2:00 - 2:15
Johnathan Tune, Coronary Vascular Dysfunction in Obesity and InsulinResistance

2:15 - 2:30 Neal Chen, Mechanisms of Vascular Calcification

2:30 - 2:45 Helmut Steinberg, In-Vivo Assessment of Endothelial Function

2:45 - 3:00 Carlos Labarrere, Microvascular Prothrombogenicity and Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy in Rat Model of Heterotopic Heart Transplantation

Remodeling and Interventional Approaches

3:00 - 3:15
David Basile, Microvascular Rarefaction Following Acute Kidney Injury Influences on Long-term Function

3:15 - 3:30 Joe Unthank, How Does the Renin-Angiotensin System Influence Collateral Growth?

3:30 - 3:45 Patricia Gallagher, Death Associated Protein Kinase in the Vasculature: Another “Complex” Situation and the Contrarian’s View

3:45 - 4:00 Michael Murphy, Stem Cell Mediated Angiogenesis for Critical Limb Ischemia

4:00 - 4:15 Michael Sturek, Selective Inhibition of Coronary Restenosis Mechanisms Using Drug-Eluting Stents in a Porcine Model of Cardiometabolic Risk

4:15 - 4:30 Gordan McLennan, Image Guided Intervention: Surgery of the Next Century

4:30 - 4:45 Rafat Siddiqui, Trans Fatty Acids Promote Atherosclerotic Lesions and Induce Sudden Cardiac Death

4:45 - 5:00 Saihari Sadanandan, The Indiana Predictive Cardiovascular Health Project of Fairbanks Institute

5:00 Buses depart for IUSM Campus

Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine 2005 Retreat
January 25, 2005
University Place Conference Center and Hotel

8:15 — 8:30 Continental Breakfast
Moderator, Merv Yoder, Welcome

8:30 — 8:45 Keith March — ICVBM Update

8:45 — 9:00 Ora Pescovitz — ICVBM in the Context of the IUSM

Basic Research and Animal Models

9:00 – 9:40 George VandeWoude, Van Andel Research Institute

9:40 – 10:10 Mike Sturek
Coronary Physiology: Porcine Models of Exercise and the Metabolic Syndrome"

10:10 – 10:30
BREAK

10:30 – 11:00
Dave Ingram
Endothelial Progenitor Cells from Umbilical Cord Blood and Vessel Walls: Biology and Potential Therapies

11:00 – 11:30
Jalees Rehman
Progenitor Cells in Cardiovascular Disease: The good, the bad and the fat.

11:30 – 11:40 TBA

11:40 – 1:20
LUNCH/Posters

Lunch tables will be arranged thematically to reflect the focus of current working/discussion groups. Key individuals in each area will be assigned to specific tables while others are free to join their area of interest. Focus groups will include:

Hepatocyte Growth Factor

Exercise and the Vasculature

Aging/Vascular Remodelling

Mechanical Considerations in Vascular Modulation

Cell Therapies

Cancer Micro-Vascular Research

1:20 – 2:00 George VandeWoude, Van Andel Research Institute

2:00 – 2:30 Chris Sweeney
The Emergence of Anti-Angiogenic Therapy for the Treatment of Cancer.

2:30 – 3:00 Gary Hutchins
Imaging Methods for Vascular Evaluation

3:00 – 3:30 BREAK

3:30 – 4:00 Tom Gardner
TBA

4:00 – 4:15 Concluding Remarks – Keith March

Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine 2006 Retreat September 25, 2006 Eli Lilly

Stem Cells: Part I

Stem Cells: Part II

Metabolic Syndrome

Remodeling and Interventional Approaches

Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine 2005 Retreat January 25, 2005 University Place Conference Center and Hotel

Basic Research and Animal Models

Cancer Micro-Vascular Research

Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine
2006 Retreat
September 25, 2006
Eli Lilly

Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine 2005 Retreat
January 25, 2005
University Place Conference Center and Hotel