VAC 2025

Program

Day 4 │Friday 3 February

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Chair: Lauri Eklund

9.00 – 9.40

Translational Insights into Vascular Growth Factors

Kari Alitalo University of Helsinki, Finland

9.40 – 9.45

Patient story

SESSION COMPLEX LYMPHATIC ANOMALIES & SIGNALING

Chairs: Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve and Murat Alpaslan

9.45 – 10.15

Mechanisms of lymphatic vascular specialisation

Tatiana Petrova University of Lausanne, Switzerland

10.15 – 10.30

Pathogenic EPHB4 variants of lymphatic-related non-immune hydrops fetalis and CM-AVM2 have discernible functional effects

Pascal Brouillard de Duve Institute, Brussels, Belgium

10.30 – 11.00

Hyperactive KRAS signaling in complex lymphatic anomalies

Mike Dellinger UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA

11.00 – 11.20

coffee break

11.20 – 11.35

Mosaic activating variants in KRAS cause central conducting lymphatic anomaly which respond to MEK inhibition

Sarah Sheppard Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, USA

11.35 – 11.50

Kaposiform Lymphangiomatosis (KLA): Update on clinical features, treatment approach, and use of targeted medical therapy

Whitney Eng Boston Children's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

11.50 - 12.20

Complicated Lymphatic Anomalies: A Developmental Therapeutic Conundrum

Denise Adams Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

12.20 – 13.00

lunch break

KEYNOTE LECTURE

Chair: Miikka Vikkula

13.00 – 13.40

Infantile hemangioma: a paradigm for human vasculogenesis

Joyce Bischoff Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

SESSION VASCULAR TUMOURS & CMS

Chairs: Konstantin Gängel and Hans Schoofs

13.40 – 14.10

Targeting transcription in vascular neoplasms

Mat François Centenary Institute, University of Sydney, Australia

14.10 – 14.25

Lymphatic endothelial precursor cells as a novel model for translational Kaposi's sarcoma studies

Krista Tuohinto University of Helsinki, Finland

14.25 – 14.40

Sirolimus to treat infantile hemangioma: report of 2 cases

An Van Damme Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium

14.40 14.55

Statins inhibit vasculogenesis in a xenograft model of infantile hemangioma

Annegret Holm Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA

14.55 15.10

Management of late sequellae of Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma

Julien Coulie Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium

15.10 15.40

GNAQ mutation in the endothelium causes aberrant vascular morphogenesis and coagulopathy that are rescued by MEK inhibition

Elisa Boscolo Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, USA

15.40 15.55

Somatic PIK3R1 and non-hotspot PIK3CA mutations associated with a newly identified clinical phenotype: Capillary Malformation with Dilated Veins (CMDV)

Martina de Bortoli VA Cure - de Duve Institute, Belgium


15.55 – 16.00


Awards and closing