{"id":2519,"date":"2024-06-21T09:57:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T09:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/?page_id=2519"},"modified":"2024-07-22T07:43:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T07:43:16","slug":"speakers-day-1-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/index.php\/speakers-day-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2519\" class=\"elementor elementor-2519\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ffed097 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ffed097\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2351451\" data-id=\"2351451\" 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.elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h3>\u00a0<\/h3><h3>Miikka Vikkula<\/h3><div id=\"ConnectiveDocSignExtentionInstalled\" data-extension-version=\"1.0.4\">\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ff741ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ff741ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Professor of Human Genetics and Co-Director at<\/p><p>de Duve Institute, University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Brussels,\u00a0 Belgium<\/p><div id=\"ConnectiveDocSignExtentionInstalled\" data-extension-version=\"1.0.4\">\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-382f196 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"382f196\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Miikka Vikkula obtained the M.D. degree at the University of Helsinki in 1992 and Ph.D. in molecular genetics, in 1993. He was a Research Associate at Harvard Medical School 1993-1997, during which time he became interested in vascular and lymphatic anomalies. With his wife, Prof Laurence M. Boon, Plastic Surgeon, Co-ordinator of the Vascular Anomaly Center, Brussels, the couple discovered the gene for familial venous malformation in 1996, and since then many others. They settled in Brussels in 1997, where Dr Vikkula developed his own laboratory. He obtained a th\u00e8se d\u2019aggr\u00e9gation \/ &#8220;docentship PhD&#8221; in 2000 from UCLouvain, and was nominated Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medicine. He is a member of the Directorate of the de Duve Institute since 2004, and a full professor of Human Genetics since 2013. He has received numerous honours and awards, including the Inbev-Baillet Latour Clinical Prize in 2013, and the first Belgian Generet Award for rare disease research 2019. He is a Member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Medecine since 2012. Prof Vikkula\u2019s research led to the identification of first somatic mutations as explanation for sporadically occurring vascular anomalies, generation of first ever animal model for vascular malformations, and proof of concept treatment with small molecular inhibitors. 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Here, she discovered allele dose-dependent effects on stemness of the cancer hotspot variant <i>PIK3CA<sup>H1047R<\/sup><\/i>. This led to her overarching hypothesis that quantitative PI3K signalling thresholds determine the pathophysiological consequences of <i>PIK3CA<\/i> mutations in human diseases such as cancer and <i>PIK3CA<\/i>-related overgrowth spectrum (PROS). This has shaped Ralitsa\u2019s overall research career to date, with a strong emphasis on bridging the gap between the biological and physical sciences in the context of PI3K signalling. <\/span><\/p><\/div><div><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div><div><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">After a short postdoc in the Semple Lab at University of Edinburgh, Ralitsa joined the laboratory of Prof Bart Vanhaesebroeck at University College London Cancer Institute, where she initially contributed to the characterisation of the first small molecule PI3K<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">a<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"> activator.<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-GB\">In December 2020, Ralitsa was awarded a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship to study the systems biology of PI3K-dependent phenotypic plasticity. She has developed innovative quantitative pipelines for single-cell studies of PI3K signalling and demonstrated that oncogenic <i>PIK3CA<\/i> blurs growth factor signalling specificity in a highly context-dependent manner. In parallel, Ralitsa also worked with Prof Alex Toker at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on understanding the quantitative signalling and phenotypic outputs that differentiate pharmacological AKT degradation from conventional AKT inhibition.<\/span><\/p><\/div><div><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In May 2023, she established her independent research group at the MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, University of Dundee.<\/span><\/p><\/div><div><p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Ralitsa is also a strong advocate for Open Research. She serves on the inaugural UK Committee on Research Integrity (<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ukcori.org\/our-people\/\">https:\/\/ukcori.org\/our-people\/<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">), representing the voice of early career researchers in efforts to champion research integrity and a positive research culture across nationally and internationally.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1927c24 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"1927c24\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1b7893d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1b7893d\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"bio-Seront\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f926a6a\" data-id=\"f926a6a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-02c42e1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"02c42e1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-b9cb2bf\" data-id=\"b9cb2bf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4e61f29 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4e61f29\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"764\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Quaggin_Susan.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Quaggin_Susan.png 764w, https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Quaggin_Susan-300x286.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-90f56f0\" data-id=\"90f56f0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2be6313 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2be6313\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\u00a0<\/div><h3><span lang=\"EN-US\">Susan Quaggin<\/span><\/h3><div id=\"ConnectiveDocSignExtentionInstalled\" data-extension-version=\"1.0.4\">\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2074b55 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2074b55\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA<\/span><\/div><div id=\"ConnectiveDocSignExtentionInstalled\" data-extension-version=\"1.0.4\">\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1870f95 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1870f95\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Susan E. Quaggin, MD, FRCP(C), FASN, is a graduate of the University of Toronto where shecompleted her residency and served as chief medical resident for the University\u2019s St. Michael\u2019s\u00a0Hospital. She completed her nephrology fellowship at the University of Toronto and Yale University, where she also completed research and post-doctoral training. Dr. Quaggin\u2019s research\u00a0focuses on\u00a0fundamental processes needed to establishand maintaintheintegrity of the specialized vascular beds in the kidney and eye. To understand and identify new therapeutic targets, she\u2019s worked to develop genetic mouse models that allow cell and time-specificmanipulation of functional genes. Translation of her group\u2019s findings regarding the vasculature reveals pathogenic\u00a0mechanismsand new therapeutictargets for a number of diseases,\u00a0including\u00a0diabetic kidney and eye disease,\u00a0nephroticsyndrome, and\u00a0glaucoma.\u00a0<\/p><p>Currently she is the Irving S. Cutter professor of medicine at Northwestern Universitywhere she serves\u00a0as the Chair of the Department of Medicine\u00a0and the Director\u00a0of the Feinberg Cardiovascular and Renal Research Institute.\u00a0Dr. Quaggin was elected to theAmerican Society for Clinical Investigation in 2006, the Association of American Physicians in 2013, the National Academy of Medicine in 2019, the National Academy of Inventors in 2021, the American Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences (2023), and served as President of theAmerican Society of Nephrology (2021,2022) and is serving as council member of the Association of American Physicians. She was co-recipient of the Lefoulon-Delalande Grand Prix in Cardiovascular Science (2023).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-256ed49 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"256ed49\" data-element_type=\"section\" id=\"bio-Graupera\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2da9ff7\" data-id=\"2da9ff7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5f03594 elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"5f03594\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-363f73c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"363f73c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-d6400fa\" data-id=\"d6400fa\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-87b06c8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"87b06c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Maroeska-te-Loo-rond-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Maroeska-te-Loo-rond-1.png 221w, https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Maroeska-te-Loo-rond-1-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-e49bba0\" data-id=\"e49bba0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-181c7bd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"181c7bd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<\/p><h3><span lang=\"EN-US\">Maroeska te Loo\u00a0<\/span><\/h3><div>\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c19515 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3c19515\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Amalia Childrens Hospital Nijmegen and University Hospital Nijmegen, Radboudumc, Department of Pediatrics, The Netherlands<\/span><\/div><div id=\"ConnectiveDocSignExtentionInstalled\" data-extension-version=\"1.0.4\">\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bdef724 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bdef724\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maroeska te Loo is a pediatric hemato-oncologist and clinical pharmacologist with a special interest on vascular anomalies. Her research is focused on the possibility of medical treatment of vascular anomalies, the genetics and in line of her specialization the risk of developing or bleeding episodes. She has a broad clinical background in pediatric hematology and in conducting clinical trials. She was the principal investigator in the Netherlands of a nationwide study into the effect of low dose sirolimus in vascular malformations and has initiated different kind of studies to learn more in respect of the risk of development of thrombosis in venous malformations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>speakers Tuesday 11 FEbruary \u00a0 Miikka Vikkula \u00a0 Professor of Human Genetics and Co-Director at de Duve Institute, University of Louvain (UCLouvain), Brussels,\u00a0 Belgium \u00a0 Miikka Vikkula obtained the M.D. degree at the University of Helsinki in 1992 and Ph.D. in molecular genetics, in 1993. He was a Research Associate at Harvard Medical School 1993-1997, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/index.php\/speakers-day-1-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speakers Day 1<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2519","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2519\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vacure-conference.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}