SPEAKERS
Meet the distinguished plenary speakers who will share their expertise, insights, and unique perspectives at this year’s IVBM.
Professor Didier Stainier
Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim
GERMANY
Professor Taija Makinen
Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology
FINLAND
Professor Gou Young Koh
Distinguished Professor, KAIST
SOUTH KOREA
Professor Guillermo Oliver
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
UNITED STATES
Professor Kari Alitalo
Director of the Translational Cancer Medicine Research Program and Scientific Director of the iCAN Precision Cancer Medicine Flagship in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Helsinki.
FINLAND
Professor Luisa Iruela-Arispe
Chair, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
UNITED STATES
Professor Kristy Red-Horse
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
UNITED STATES
Professor Paul Kubes
Canada Excellence Research Chair in Immunophysiology and Immunotherapy
CANADA
Professor Katerina Akassoglou
Director, Centre for Neurovascular Brain Immunology, Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institutes Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California
UNITED STATES
Professor Stefania Nicoli
Director of the Zebrafish Phenotyping Core for Precision Medicine, Internal Medicine and Genetics; Co-Director, Yale Cardiovascular Research Center (YCVRC)
UNITED STATES
Professor Anne Eichmann
Ensign Professor of Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine) and Professor of Cellular And Molecular Physiology, Yale University
UNITED STATES
Professor Ralf Adams
Director, Department of Tissue
Morphogenesis, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
GERMANY
Professor Bin Zhou
Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
CHINA
Dr Gabriele Bergers
VIB-Center for Cancer Biology, Dep of Oncology, KU Leuven
BELGIUM
Professor Tohru Minamino
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Juntendo University Hospital
JAPAN