Key Dates
6 May 2008
Notification of Acceptances
26 May 2008
Early Registration Cut-off Date
9 June 2008
Late breaking Abstract Submission Date
2 July 2008
Pre & Post Congress Tours
2 July 2008
Social Program Bookings
2 July 2008
Congress Day Tours
9 July 2008
Accommodation Bookings
9 July 2008
Accommodation Deposit deadline
9-10 August 2008
Postgraduate Weekend Courses
10-14 August 2008
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With thanks to
Andrew Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D
Dr. Lichtman received M.D. and Ph.D. (Biophysics) degrees from the University of Rochester School of Medicine in 1981. He trained in anatomic pathology and completed a post-doctoral research fellowship with Abul Abbas at the Brigham and Women's Hospital between 1982-1985.
He is a diplomat of the American Board of Pathology, and currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He directs N.I.H. funded research programs on immunology and vascular biology, with a focus on T cell mediated responses in cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Lichtman serves on the "Atherosclerosis and Inflammation in the Cardiovascular System" Study Section of the N.I.H. grant review program. He is a Co-director of the Cardiovascular Research Center of the Brigham and Women's Research Institute. In addition to his research-related activities, Dr. Lichtman is a staff pathologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, directs both Immunology and Pathology courses at Harvard Medical School, and is the coauthor of two widely used text books of immunology. He also serves as the Education Chair of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS).
Dr Tanya Mayadas
Dr. Mayadas received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, New York in 1989. From 1990-1992 she did a joint post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Richard Hynes, Massachusetts Institutes of Technology, and Dr. Denisa Wagner at New England Medical Center, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA. She began as an Assistant Professor in 1993 and is currently an Associate Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and a Staff Scientist at The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA. She is on the faculty of the Ph.D. program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Div. Of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School. She has National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded research in two areas of vascular biology 1) cAMP mediated regulation of endothelial cell permeability and 2) immune mediated neutrophil recruitment and cytotoxicity, with a focus on antibody-mediated glomerular injury. Dr. Mayadas served as a permanent member of the NIH study section “Vascular Cell and Molecular Biology” that reviews grants for extramural funding. She is currently a member of the American Heart Association study section and is on the editorial board of the journal Blood.
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