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IBC's Anti-Angiogenesis Conference to Feature Eight Academic Keynote Presentations

Posted on: Thursday, 13 September 2007, 12:00 CDT

IBC announced today that its upcoming Anti-angiogenesis conference will feature eight academic keynote presentations. Anti-angiogenesis will be held November 12-13, 2007 at the Courtyard Boston Tremont Hotel in Boston, MA.

Keynote presentations include:

 --  Anti-angiogenic Therapy in Combination with Radiotherapy: From Bench     to Bedside and Back     Kevin Camphausen, M.D., National Cancer Institute --  The Role of Circulating Endothelial and Progenitor Cells in Cancer     Dan G. Duda, DMD, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital --  The Anti-angiogenesis Activity of Axon Guidance Mediators     Michael Klagsbrun, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital,     Boston --  Drug Delivery Systems for Angiogenesis Inhibitors and Other     Biomolecules     Robert S. Langer, Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology --  Mining the Urinary Proteome: Cancer Biomarker Discovery     Marsha A. Moses, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital,     Boston --  Selective Inhibition of Pathologic Angiogenesis in Atherosclerosis     Karen S. Moulton, M.D., Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital,     Boston --  Integration of Anti-angiogenic Therapy with Radiation Therapy and     other Modalities     Michael S. O'Reilly, M.D., The University of Texas M. D. Anderson     Cancer Center --  Integrin a4B1 Activation During Bone Marrow Derived Cell Trafficking     Promotes Tumor Neovascularization and Growth     Michael C. Schmid, Ph.D., University of California San Diego      

Michael C. Schmid, Ph.D., University of California San Diego

The Anti-angiogenesis conference is aimed to update attendees on new drugs and to better describe what makes an efficacious anti-angiogenic drug. The conference will also cover how anti-angiogenic drugs fit into the realm of anti-vascular modalities, understand why and what it takes to improve anti-angiogenic drug activity through combination strategies and appropriate drug delivery, and to learn how to follow activity of anti-angiogenic drugs through measurement and validity of biomarkers.

For questions about the Anti-angiogenesis Conference, contact IBC at 800.390.4078 or visit the conference website at http://www.IBCLifeSciences.com/Antiangio.

Writers and editors are encouraged to attend. To request a press pass please contact Sarah Hershberger at shershberger@ibcusa.com.

About IBC Life Sciences

IBC Life Sciences is the worldwide leader in scientific, technological and business conferences and courses for the life science industry. To develop its programs, IBC actively researches the advancements, technologies and trends impacting and driving the race for new drugs and therapies. For more information, visit www.IBCLifeSciences.com

 Contact: Sarah Hershberger IBC Life Sciences Email Contact

SOURCE: IBC Life Sciences


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