Keynote Speakers
Stefanie Dimmeler, Ph.D.
Stefanie Dimmeler, Ph.D. Professor, DirectorDept of Molecular CardiologyUniversity of Frankfurt Prof. Dr. Stefanie Dimmeler Stefanie Dimmeler is born on 18.07.1967 in Ravensburg, Germany. Dr. Dimmeler received her under-graduate, graduate, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Konstanz in Konstanz (Germany) and then completed a fellowship in Experimental Surgery at the University of Cologne and in…
Read MoreChrister Betsholtz, Ph.D.
The EMBO Keynote Lecture: Christer Betsholtz, Ph.D. Professor of Vascular and Tumor BiologyUppsala University andProfessor of Vascular BiologyKarolinska Institute Christer Betsholtz took his PhD at Uppsala University in 1986 and moved to Gothenburg University as Professor of Medical Biochemistry in 1994. Initially focusing on PDGF and cancer, he found that PDGF-B signaling drives the recruitment…
Read MoreJeff Bluestone, Ph.D.
A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Metabolism and EndocrinologyDirector of the Hormone Research Institute in the Diabetes CenterUniversity of California, San Francisco His research over the past 25 years has focused on understanding the basic processes that control T cell activation and immune tolerance in autoimmunity and organ transplantation. He and members of…
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