IRA REGIONAL MEETING: NIH-IRA-MedImmune mini-symposia – “Tissue homeostasis, repair, regeneration, and fibrosis”
Date: May 2, 2016
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:45 PM
Location: National Institutes of Health – Bethesda, MD – Lipsett Ampitheater
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MEETING AGENDA
8:00am – 8:25am – Coffee/Breakfast
8:25am – 8:30am – Introductions
8:30am – 9:05am – Plenary 1
Cory Hogaboam, Cedars-Sinai – Progenitor cells in lung remodeling
9:05am – 9:30am – Speaker 1
Lynne Murray, MedImmune – Targeting idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
9:30am – 9:55am – Speaker 2
Bernadette Gochuico, NHGRI – Pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis
9:55am – 10:20am – Speaker 3
Wayne Mitzner, John Hopkins – Emphysema and inflammation
10:20am – 10:40am – Coffee break
10:40am – 11:05am – Speaker 4
Al Scott, Johns Hopkins – Inflammation and repair following helminth infection
11:05am – 11:30am – Speaker 5
Elizabeth Wagner, Johns Hopkins – Angiogenesis and lung inflammation
11:30am – 11:55am – Speaker 6
Sergei P Atamas, Baltimore VA Med Center – IL-33 and pulmonary fibrosis
11:55am – 12:20pm – Speaker 7
Stef Vogel, University of Maryland – Novel Strategies for Targeting Innate Immune Responses to Influenza
12:20pm – 1:00pm – LUNCH
1:00pm – 1:35pm – Plenary 2
Shahim Rafii, Cornell University – Role of Vascular Niche in Organ Regeneration
1:35pm – 2:00pm – Speaker 8
Trey Gieseck, NIAID – Role of type 2 immunity in liver regeneration and fibrosis
2:00pm – 2:25pm – Speaker 9
Theo Heller, NIDDK – Hepatic Fibrosis in polycystic kidney disease
2:25pm – 2:50pm – Speaker 10
Jim Trevaskis, MedImmune – Hepatic Fibrosis in a mouse model of NASH – characterization and effect of potential therapeutics
2:50pm – 3:05pm – Coffee Break
3:05pm – 3:30pm – Speaker 11
Deb Citrin, NCI – Role of type 2 immunity in radiation induced fibrosis
3:30pm – 3:55pm – Speaker 12
Jeff K. Huang, Georgetown University – Role of the Th2 inducible gene IL-4i1 in CNS remyelination
3:55pm – 4:20pm – Speaker 13
Brian Kelsall, NIAID – Myeloid cells in intestinal immune homeostasis
4:20pm – 4:45pm – Speaker 14
Xu Cao, Johns Hopkins – Role of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in remodeling, osteoporosis and osteoarthritis
4:45pm – 5:10pm – Speaker 15
Bin Gao, NIAAA – Interleukin-22: a magic potion for epithelial cell repair
5:10pm – 5:45pm – Plenary 3
Pamela Gehron Robey, NIDCR – Skeletal stem/progenitor cells in health and disease
5:45pm – Adjournment and concluding remarks