Kari Alitalo
(Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

Topic:
Emerging developments in lymphangiogenesis

Takayuki Asahara
(RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan)

Topic:
Cell therapy and gene therapy using endothelial progenitor cells for vascular regeneration

Christer Betsholz
(Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)

Topic:
Notch signaling, tip cells and angiogenesis

Shaun Jackson
(Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Box Hill, Australia)

Topic:
Growing complexity of platelet aggregation

Paul Kubes
(University of Calgary, Canada)

Topic:
Mechanisms of leukocyte recruitment in inflammation

Klaus Ley
(La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, CA, USA)

Topic:
How monocytes and lymphocytes enter the artery wall

Peter Libby
(Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)

Topic:
Molecular imaging of proteinases in matrix mutant mice

Jake Lusis
(UCLA, USA)

Topic:
Genetics and susceptibility in atherosclerosis: a systems approach

Christina Mitchell
(Monash University, Australia)

Topic:
Phosphoinositide signalling

Ryozo Nagai
(University of Tokyo, Japan)

Topic:
KLF5, a key transcriptional factor which regulates SMC phenotypic modulation and metabolic syndrome

Janet Rossant
(Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada)

Topic:
Signaling pathways in early vascular development

Timothy Springer
(Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)

Topic:
Integrin regulation and signalling

Brant Weinstein
(NICHA, Bethesda, USA)

Topic:
Assembly and patterning of vessels during developmental angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis

Seppo Yla-Herttuala
(University of Kuopio, Finland)

Topic:
Emerging developments in cardiovascular gene therapy