Program Schedule

(This program is subject to updates/changes.)

• Wednesday, June 1
• Thursday, June 2
• Friday, June 3
• Saturday, June 4
• Sunday, June 5

Saturday, June 4, 2005
 
Scientific Symposia
8:00 am - 10:00 am

Scientific Symposium 400
Cancer: Clinical Trials
Room: Ferrara Theater
Chair:
Steven M. Albelda, MD
Speakers:
Daniel H. Sterman, MD - Gene Therapy Clinical Trials for Pleural Malignancies
John J. Nemunaitis, MD - Oncolytic Viral Gene Delivery Vehicles
Chiara Bonini, MD - Suicide Gene Therapy in Stem Cell Transplantation
Kristen Hege, MD - GVAX Cancer Vaccines - Clinical Development

Scientific Symposium 401
Cardiovascular: Advances in Cardiovascular Cell and Gene Therapy
Room: 230 Complex
Co-Chairs:
Lawrence C. Chan, MD
Douglas Losordo, MD
Speakers:
Lawrence C. Chan, MD - Novel Therapy of Obesity: Implications for Cardiovascular Disease
Douglas Losordo, MD - Adult Stem Cells: Fact or Fiction
H. Kirk Hammond, MD - Adenylyl Cyclase Gene Transfer for Heart Failure

Scientific Symposium 402
Hemopoietic: Advances in Stem Cell Self Renewal
Room: 260/264
Co-Chairs:
David W. Emery, PhD
Karen E. Pollok, PhD
Speakers:
R. Keith Humphries, MD, PhD - Emerging Strategies for High Level Expansion of Hematopoietic Stem Cells
C. Anthony Blau, MD - Pharmacologically Regulated Cell Therapy
Akihiro Kume, MD, PhD - On-demand Expansion of Genetically Corrected Blood Cells

Scientific Symposium 403
Oligonucleotide Based Therapies: Emerging Applications of Oligonucleotide Therapeutics
Room: 240 Complex
Chair:
Dieter Gruenert, PhD
Speakers:
Bruce Sullenger, PhD - Aptamer-Antidote Pairs as a Novel Approach to Safer Drug Design
Mark A. Kay, MD, PhD - RNAi Based Approaches for Treatment of Human Hepatitis Viral Infection
Peter Glazer, MD, PhD - Targeted Gene Correction via Triplex Formation
Andrew Ellington, PhD - Aptamer Inhibition of HIV

Scientific Symposium 404
Viral: Vector Cell Interactions
Room: 263/267
Chair:
Kenneth Cornetta, PhD
Speakers:
Glen R. Nemerow, PhD - Adenovirus Cell Entry Mechanisms
Arun Srivastava, PhD - AAV-mediated Transgene Expression: Second-strand Synthesis Versus Strand-annealing
Nicholas Muzyczka, PhD - Targeting AAV Vectors

Break
10:00 am - 10:15 am

Simultaneous Oral Abstract Sessions
10:15 am - 12:15 pm

Oral Abstract Session 410
DNA Viruses: Vaccines, HSV, Baculovirus and SV40
Room: 240 Complex
Co-Chairs:
David Krisky, MD, PhD
Yoshinaga Saeki, MD, PhD
(Abstracts #755 - #762)

Oral Abstract Session 411
Naked DNA Gene Transfer: Optimizing Expression/Animal Models
Room: 260/264
Co-Chairs:
Ronald K. Scheule, PhD
Carol H. Miao, PhD
(Abstracts #763 - #770)

Oral Abstract Session 412
Lipid Mediated Gene Transfer: Non Viral Delivery Systems
Room: 263/267
Co-Chairs:
Ralph W. Paul, PhD
James E. Hagstrom, PhD
(Abstracts #771 - #778)

Oral Abstract Session 413
Molecular Conjugates: Therapeutic Applications
Room: 120/124
Co-Chairs:
Lonnie D. Shea, PhD
Theresa M. Reineke, PhD
(Abstracts #779 - #786)

Oral Abstract Session 414
Muscle and Connective Tissue: Gene Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy
Room: 230/231
Co-Chairs:
Olivier Danos, PhD
Paula Clemens, MD
(Abstracts #787 - #794)

Oral Abstract Session 415
Cellular Immunotherapy of Cancer Using Genetically Modified Effectors
Room: Ferrara Theater
Chair:
Michael Jensen, MD
(Abstracts #795 - #802)

Oral Abstract Session 416
Cancer-Apoptosis and Suicide
Room: 123/127
Co-Chairs:
Sunil Chada, PhD
Patricia Yotnda, PhD
(Abstracts #803 - #810)

Oral Abstract Session 417
Gene Therapy Approaches to Pulmonary Disease
Room: 261/262
Co-Chairs:
Terence R. Flotte, MD
Christine L. Halbert, PhD
(Abstracts #811 - #818)

Meet-the-Investigator Lunch Sessions
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Meet-the-Investigator 420
Room: Washington Avenue A
Chair:
Harry L. Malech, MD - Ex Vivo Hematopoietic Stem Cell Therapy for Inherited Immune Disease

Meet-the-Investigator 421
Room: Washington Avenue B
Chair:
R. Scott McIvor, PhD - Drug Resistance and Transposons in Gene Therapy Research

Meet-the-Investigator 422
Room: Washington Avenue C
Chair:
Luigi Naldini, MD, PhD - Lentiviral Vectors for Stem Cell Gene Transfer

Presidential Symposium 430
1:45 pm – 4:15 pm

Room: America’s Ballroom

Chair: Katherine A. High, MD

Speaker: George Q. Daley, MD, PhD

Presidential Address
Katherine A. High, MD

Speaker: George Q. Daley, MD, PhD - Combining Gene Therapy with Cell Therapy

Presentation of Top Three Abstracts

#819 – Alessandra Recchia, PhD - Molecular Follow-Up of Patients Treated with Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Donor Lymphocytes Transduced with a Retroviral Vector Expressing HSV-TK and DLNGFR
#820 – Aurelie Goyenvalle - Highly Efficient Exon-Skipping and Sustained Correction of Muscular Dystrophy Using an Adeno-Associated Viral Vector
#821 – Anja Ehrhardt, PhD - Development of a Site-Specific Integrating Gene-Deleted Adenoviral Vector for Sustained Transgene Expression Levels In Vivo