Scientific Programme

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Main Topics
01.  Endogenous stimulators  and inhibitors of angiogenesis, their receptors and signaling  pathways to endothelial cells and other cell types  participating  in the angiogenic  cascade.
02.  Notch and ephrin B2/EphB4 signalling 
03. Semaphorin 3b
04. Role of bone marrow-derived  cells in angiogenesis  and lymphangiogenesis.
05. Role of pericytes
06. Lymphangiogenesis
07. Roles  of extracellular matrix and proteolysis in angiogenesis
08. Inflammatory  cells and cytokines/microenvironment.
09. Angiogenesis and the coagulation  cascade/platelets/parstatin
10. Angiomodulin
11. New emerging  targets  for therapeutic  intervention.
12. Vascular architecture in physiological and pathological settings.
13. Clinical experience  with approved anti-angiogenesis agents.
14. Regulatory  issues  and optimal  trial design.

Keynote Speaker
Napoleone Ferrara (Genentech, Inc.,USA)

Plenary Speakers
A. Albini (ITA)
Κ. Αlitalo (FI)
A. Aplin (USA)
R. Atwood (UK)
F. Bussolino (ITA)
H. Gerhardt (UK)
R. Giavazzi (ITA)
A. Hatzopoulos (USA)
V. Van Hinsbergh (NETH)
K. Hoekman (NETH)
K.G. Klement-Lakka (USA)

M. Konerding (GER)
W. Li (USA)
E. Madison (USA)
M. Maragoudakis (GR)
C. Mitchell (UK)
C. Mitsiades (USA)
R. Nicosia (USA)
M. Presta (ITA)
D. Ribatti (ITA)
Y. Sato (JP)
M. Toi (JP)
N. Tsopanoglou (GR)
S. Vinores (USA)
G. Yancopoulos (USA)
M. Ziche (ITA)