Center for Wound Healing: 2008 Symposium
- The Center for Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration invites you to attend the first in an annual series of symposia dedicated to a particular topic of interest in the field of wound healing research. This one- day symposium is open to researchers, clinicians and students, and will include short talks presented by leading scientists and clinicians in the featured area, as well as a poster session that presents current research findings.
- 1st Annual Symposium
- "Fibrosis and Scarring"
- May 16, 2008
- 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
- UIC College of Dentistry
- 801 S. Paulina St.
- Chicago, IL 60612-7211
- To register for the symposium, please use our online registration website:www.regonline.com/iwhcsymposium08
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Registration Fees: $50 Research and clinical professionals, $25 Students and Trainees
- PROGRAM
- 8:30 am Session I: Cellular Plasticity and Cross-talk
- Fei Wang, Univ. of Illinois-Urbana; Edward Tredget, Univ. of Alberta;
Robert Strieter, Univ. of Virginia
- 11:30 am Lunch and Posters
- 1:00 pm Session II: Bioengineering and Prevention of Fibrotic Response
- David Mooney, Harvard Univ. ; B. Lynn Allen-Hoffmann, Univ. of Wisconsin;
- Greg Schultz, Univ. of Florida
- 3:00 pm Session III: Fibrosis and Scar Formation in Skin
- Christine Theoret, Univ.of Montreal; David Hart, Univ. of Calgary; John Varga, Northwestern Univ.
- Program Committee: Luisa DiPietro, Phillip Marucha, Wendy Cerny-University of Illinois
Chicago; Thomas Mustoe, John Varga-Northwestern University