Organizers
Meet the organizers of the 22nd International Vascular Biology Meeting
Chair: Rong Wang
Professor of Surgery, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Mildred V. Strouss Endowed Chair in Vascular Surgery
Director, Laboratory for Accelerated Vascular Research
University of California, San Francisco
Co-Chair: Masanori Aikawa
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Yoshihiro Miwa Distinguished Chair
Founding Director, Center for Interdisciplinary
Cardiovascular Sciences, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Co-Chair: Jan Kitajewski
Director, University of Illinois Cancer Center
Sweeney Professor and Head, Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine
Rosemary J Akhurst
Professor, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco
Brian Black
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics; Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco
Lena Claesson-Welsh
Professor, Dept. Immunology, Genetics and Pathology
Uppsala University
Ondine Cleaver
Professor
Molecular Biology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Napoleone Ferrara
Distinguished Professor of Pathology; Senior Deputy Director for Basic Sciences, University of California San Diego Moores Cancer Center
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Karen Hirschi
Professor, Department of Cell Biology
University of Virginia
Luisa Iruela-Arispe
Chair, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Stephen Walter Ranson Professor of Cell Biology
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Northwestern University
Guillermo Oliver
Director, Feinberg Cardiovascular and Renal Research Institute – Center for Vascular and Developmental Biology
Thomas D. Spies Professor of Lymphatic Metabolism
Professor of Medicine (Nephrology and Hypertension)
Northwestern University
Marlene Rabinovitch
Director, Basic Science and Engineering Initiative, Betty Irene Moore Children's Heart Center
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Stanford University
Joseph Wu
Director of the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Simon H. Stertzer, MD, Professor of Medicine and Radiology
Stanford University