March 14-16, 2012

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Program Chairs:

Allan L. Goldstein, Professor and Emeritus Chair, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, The George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

Enrico Garaci, Presidente, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Professor of Microbiology
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy

Program Committee:
Roberto Camerini, Rome, Italy
Enrico Garaci, Rome, Italy
Allan L. Goldstein, Washington, DC
Ewald Hannappel, Erlangen, Germany
Hynda Kleinman, Bethesda, MD
Paul Riley, London, UK
Luigina Romani, Rome, Italy
Cynthia Tuthill, San Mateo, CA
Bruce Zetter, Boston, MA

Invited Speakers and Chairs:

Marie-France Carlier, Professor, Lab d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Struc, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Oscar A. Carretero, Division of Hypertension and Vascular Research Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

Michael Chopp, Professor, Department of Neurology,Wayne State University School of Medicine, the Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI

David Crockford, Vice President Clinical/Regulatory, RegeneRx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc., Washington, DC

Hemmo Drexhage, Department of Immunology, Erasmus Medical College, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

John Edwards, Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Gavino Faa, Department of Pathology, University of Cagliari, Italy

Francesca Fallarino, Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Agnes Fogo, Professor of Pediatrics Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

Karina Reyes-Gordillo, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC

Sudhiranjan Gupta, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Temple, TX

Mark A. Hardy, Auchincloss Professor of Surgery, Director Emeritus of the Transplant Centre, Vice Chairman and Residency Program Director of the Department of Surgery at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York City, NY

Paulo D. Koeberle, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Anatomy, Institute of Medical Science, Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Christian Kupatt-Jeremais, Professor Doctor of Medicine, Internal Medicine I, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Michele Maio, Director of the Cancer Bioimmunotherapy Unit at the Centro di Riferimento Oncologico of Aviano, Italy

Dan Morris, Department of Emergency Medicine, the Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI

Paul H. Naylor, IRX Therapeutics Inc., Farmingdale, NY

Milica Radisic, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Heart & Stroke/Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Paul Riley, Senior Lecturer and Group Leader, Molecular Medicine Unit, UCL-Institute of Child Health, London, England

Luigina Romani, Professor of Microbiology, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Annalucia Serafino, Institute of Translational Pharmacology, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy

Paola Sinibaldi, Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rome, Rome, Italy

Nicola Smart, Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, England

Gabe Sosne, Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Kresge Eye Institute, Detroit, MI

Deepak Srivastava, The Younger Family Director, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Biochemistry & Biophysics, Wilma and Adeline Pirag Distinguished Professor of Pediatric Developmental Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA

Yeu Su, Institute of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

Cynthia Tuthill, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at SciClone Pharmaceuticals, San Francisco, CA

Andrea Velardi, Division of Hematology and Clinical Immunology, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Ralf Weiskirchen, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry, RWTH-University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

Bruce Zetter, Charles Nowiszewski Professor of Cancer Biology in the Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA

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