State-of-the-Art Speakers

Dudley K. Strickland, Ph.D.

"Role of LRP1 in regulating protease activity in the vasculature."

Professor, departments of surgery and physiology, and director, center for vascular and inflammatory diseases, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore MD, USA

Katherine A. Hajjar, M.D.

"Fibrinolysis and Angiogenesis: Annexin A2 at the Crossroads."

Professor of Pediatrics, Brine Family Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology Associate Dean for Research, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA

Manuel Yepes, M.D.

"Plasminogen activators: from the blood to the synapse."

Professor of Neurology, Emory University, and director VAMC Stroke Center, Atlanta, GA, USA

Sathoshi Gando, M.D.

"Trauma, shock, and disseminated intravascular coagulation"

Professor and Chairman of Division of Acute and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan.

Scott L. Diamond, Ph.D.

"Hemodynamic regulation of vessels, clotting, and fibrinolysis"

Arthur E. Humphrey Professor and Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Director, Penn Center for Molecular Discovery Institute for Medicine and Engineering 1024 Vagelos Research Laboratory University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Robert Ariens, Ph.D.

"Nanoscale regulation of clot structure and function"

Professor of Vascular Biology, Thrombosis and Tissue Repair Group, Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK