Speaker

Title

*Tuesday
Aug. 22

Sept. 27

Donald M. McDonald, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Anatomy and UCSF Comprehensive Care Center
San Francisco, CA

Cellular Changes in Blood Vessels of Tumors and Normal Organs after Inhibition of VEGF

Oct. 11

Hamid Band, MD, PhD
Professor and Director
Division of Molecular Oncology
ENH Research Institute
Evanston, IL

Ubiquitin Pathway in Control of Tyrosine Kinase Signals

Oct. 18

Shu Chien, MD, PhD
Professor
Bioengineering Laboratory
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
La Jolla, CA

Molecular Basis of Mechanotransduction in Endothelial Cells

Oct. 25th

Hossein Ardehali, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry
Feinberg Cardiovascular Institute
Northwestern University Medical Center
Chicago, IL

Role of Mitochondria in Cardioprotection

Nov. 1

Barry M. Gumbiner, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Cell Biology
University of Virginia School of Medicine Charlottesville, VA

Cadherins and Catenins in Development and Cancer

Nov. 8

Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD
Professor of Immunobiology and Investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Toll Pathway of Host Defense

Nov. 15

Robin H. Steinhorn, MD
Raymond and Hazel Speck Berry
Professor of Pediatrics Head,
Division of Neonatology
Children's Memorial Hospital and
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL

New Insights and Therapies for Neonatal Pulmonary Hypertension

Nov. 29

Duncan J. Stewart, MD
Dexter Hung-Cho Man Chair and Director, Division of Cardiology
University of Toronto
St. Michael's Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Revascularizing the Lung:  A New Therapeutic Paradigm for PAH?

Usha Raj, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Neonatology
Los Angeles BioMedical Research Institute Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, CA

Acute and Long-term Effects of Fetal Hypoxia on the Pulmonary Circulation

Dec. 13

Peter J. Sims, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

The Phospholipid Scramblase (PLSCR) Gene Family: A play in Four Acts by Luigi Pirandello