VAC 2025

Preliminary program

Friday 3 February

8.30 – 9.10 Keynote

Prof. Kari Alitalo, Translational Insights into Vascular Growth Factors

 

9.10 – 11.45 Session Complex Lymphatic Anomalies (CLAs) & signalling

9.10 – 9.40          Prof. Tatiana Petrova, Mechanisms of lymphatic vascular specialisation

9.40 – 9.55          short talk

9.55 – 10.25        Prof. Mike Dellinger, Hyperactive KRAS signaling in complex lymphatic anomalies

10.25 – 10.40     short talk

coffee break

11.00 – 11.30      Dr. Denise Adams, Complex Lymphatic Anomalies: A Developmental Therapeutic Conundrum

11.30 – 11.45     short talk

lunch break

Patient testimony

12.30 – 13.10 Keynote

Prof. Joyce Bischoff, Infantile hemangioma: a paradigm for human vasculogenesis

 

13.10 – 15.00 Session Vascular tumours & CMs

13.10 – 13.40     Prof. Mat François, Targeting transcription in vascular neoplasms

13.40 – 13.55     short talk

13.55 – 14.25     Prof. Elisa Boscolo, GNAQ mutation in the endothelium causes aberrant vascular morphogenesis and coagulopathy that are rescued by MEK inhibition

14.25 – 14.40     short talk

14.40 – 15.10        Prateek Singh, “High-throughput microphysiological models transforming tissue modelling”

15.15 – 15.45 Awards and closing