February 3, 2006

Heart failure and myocardium session

Chairman

Byung-Hee Oh/Kirk Knowlton

8:30

Opening remarks

Byung-Hee Oh

8:40

TBD

DongJu Choi (SNU)

9:00

Adrenergic signaling (TBD)

Howard A. Rockman (Duke University)

9:30

TBD

Seigo Izumo (Norvatis) - not yet determined

10:00

Effects of COMP-Angiopoietin 1 on the Ischemic Protection and LV Remodeling Following MI

MyeongChan Cho (Chungbuk National University)

10:20

Coffee break

10:40

Abnormal Ryanodine Receptor Function in Heart Failure

Masafumi Yano (Yamaguchi University)

11:10

New Biomarkes in Cardiovascular Diseases: Hepatitis C Virus, Cytokines, Mast Cell Mediators and Hepatocyte Growth Factor

Akira Matsumori (Kyoto University)

11:40

TBD

Kirk Knowlton (UCSD)

12:10

Cytokines as a predictors of clinical course in fulminant viral myocarditis

EunSeok Jeon (SungKyunkwan University)

12:30

Lunch

Vascular biology and hypertension session　

Chairman

Hyo-Soo Kim/Kenneth Walsh

14:00

TBD

Kensuke Egashira (Kyushu University)

14:30

TBD

Kyu-Won Kim (SNU)

14:50

Role of angiopoietins in endothelial progenitor cells

Wonhee Suh /Duk-Kyoung Kim (SungKyunkwan University)

15:10

TBD

Kenneth Walsh (Boston University)

15:40

TBD

Young-Guen Kwon (Yonsei University)

16:00

Coffee break

16:20

Integrin linked kinase and angiogenesis

Seung-Pyo Lee/Seok-Won Yoon (SNU)

16:40

TBD

Hiroshi Itoh (Kyoto University)

17:10

TBD

Ki-Hoon Han (University of Ulsan)

17:30

TBD

Young-Sup Yoon (Tufts University)

18:00

TBD

Hae-Young Lee (SNU)

18:20

Mobilized stem cell with neoinitmal growth and vascular healing

Hyun-Jai Cho (SNU/Tufts University)

18:40

End of the 1^st day

February 4, 2006

Stem cell and angiogenesis session

Chairman

Young-Bae Park / Shin-Yong Moon

8:30

(TBD)

Han-Mo Yang/Jin Hur (SNU)

8:50

(TBD)

Takayuki Asahara (Tokai  University/RIKEN Center )

9:20

Identification of a novel hierarchy of blood and vessel wall derived human endothelial progenitor cells utilizing principals of stem cell biology.

David Ingram (Indiana University)

9:50

Resistin and angiogenesis

Sang-Eon Lee (SNU)

10:10

Coffee break

10:40

Keynote speech: TBD

TBD

11:10

Regulation of pleuripotency in ESC (TBD)

Shinya Yamanaka (Kyoto University)

11:40

Multilineage Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells

Dong-Wook Kim (Yonsei University)