5th Annual Gene Therapy Symposium for Heart, Lung, and Blood Diseases
Focus Topic: Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
November 1-3, 2006 - Sonoma, California

Program

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 - Welcoming Reception

Thursday, November 2, 2006

Keynote Speaker

• Jennifer L. West, Ph.D. (Rice University)
  “Biomimetic Strategies in Vascular Tissue Engineering”

Session I  

• Kenneth G. Cornetta, M.D. (Indiana University)
  “Lentiviral Vectors-Promising Challenges”

• Terence R. Flotte, M.D., Ph.D. (University of  Florida)
  “Phase I Clinical Trials of Intramuscular Injection of rAAV2 and rAAV1-Pseudotyped Versions of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT) Vector in AAT-Deficient Adults”

• Lonnie D. Shea, Ph.D. (Northwestern University)
  “Non-viral Vector Delivery from Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

Session II   

• Robert T. Tranquillo, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota)
  “Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Based on Controlled Cell Remodeling of Biopolymers”
  
  
• Mervin C. Yoder, M.D. (Indiana University)
  “Redefining Endothelial Progenitor Cells”

• Doris A. Taylor, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota)
  “Treating the Continuum of CVD: From Cell-Based Prevention to Cardiac Regeneration”

Practical Strategies:  In Vivo Imaging

• Joseph A. Frank, M.D. (National Institutes of Health)
  “Magnetic Labeling of Stem Cells for Detection by Cellular MRI: Potential Applications in Regenerative Medicine”

Dinner Speaker:

• Doris A. Taylor, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota)

Friday, November 3, 2006

Workshop: Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

• Kevin E. Healy, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)
  
  
• Bruce R. Conklin, M.D. (University of California, San Francisco)

Session III

• Barry R. Stripp, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh)
  “Identification and Manipulation of Airway Stem Cells”

• Helen J. Rippon, Ph.D. (Imperial College London)
  “Stem Cells for Lung Regeneration”
  
  
• David Warburton, DSc, M.D., FRCP (Childrens Hospital, Los Angeles)
  "Stem Cells in Lung Development and Disease"

Session IV

• Stanton L. Gerson, M.D. (Case Western Reserve University)
  “Bioluminescence Imaging Reveals that Hematopoietic Reconstitution is a Dynamic Process, Perturbed by Drug Selection Using MGMT Gene Transfer in the Mouse”
  
  
• Robert Sackstein, M.D., Ph.D. (Harvard University)
  “Optimizing Homing of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Regenerative Medicine”
  
  
• Kenneth Dorshkind, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
  “Lymphopoiesis, Aging, and Patterns of Leukemogenesis”