Thrombosis Mini-Symposium

Co-Hosted by the

Thrombosis Pre-ARC

(Directors: Drs. Vipul Chitalia, Katya Ravid and Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa)

and the Department of Biochemistry

(Chairman: Dr. David A. Harris)

May 29, 2014

670 Albany Street, Rooms 107/108

1 – 5:00 pm

1:00 – 1:05        Welcoming Notes

1:05 – 1:45        Dr. Leslie Parise

  ◊ Professor & Chair of Biochemistry & Biophysics / University of North Carolina School of Medicine

  “Probing platelet function with chemoproteomics”

 

1:55– 2:35          Dr. Elazar Edelman

   ◊ The Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT / Professor of   Medicine at Harvard Medical School / Senior Attending Physician in the coronary care unit at the Brigham and  Women’s Hospital in Boston.

   “THROMBOSIS IN ENDOVASCULAR IMPLANTS: Flow, surfaces and milieu – Virchow knew it first“

2:45 – 3:00        Coffee Break

3:00 – 3:30        Brief talks by BU faculty

Dr. Deborah Stearns-Kurosawa (10 min)   Modeling Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

Dr. Vipul Chitalia (10 min)   Thrombosis in uremic milieu

Dr. Katya Ravid (10 min)   “Lysyl oxidase & thrombosis”

3:40 – 4:20        Dr. Bruce Furie

   ◊ Professor of Medicine / Harvard Medical School

   “Protein disulfide isomerases: novel targets for novel antithrombotics”

 

4:20 – 5:00        Wine & Cheese Reception