Invited Speakers
   

Dr. Kenneth V. Honn
Wayne State University
Distinguished Professor
Depts of Radiation Oncology and Pathology
Member, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
Detroit, MI
"Thromboxane Synthase and TP Receptors in Tumor Progression"

Dr. Edward A. Dennis
University of California San Diego
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
La Jolla, CA

"The LIPID MAPS Approach to Eicosanoid Lipidomics"

Dr. Larry Marnett
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Dept. of Biochemistry
Nashville, TN
"Design and Synthesis of Indomethacin and Sulindac Derivatives That Induce Tumor Cell Apoptosis but Do Not Inhibit Cyclooxygenases"

Dr. Charles N. Serhan
Director, Center for Experimental Therapeutics &
Reperfusion Injury
Brigham & Women's Hospital and
The Simon Gelman Professor of Anaesthesia (Biochemistry &
Molecular Pharmacology)
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
"The role of novel omega-3 mediators, resolvins and protectins in the resolution of acute inflammation: mapping resolution"


Dr. Santosh Nigam

Head, Eicosanoid & Lipid Research Division
and Centre for Exp.Gynecology & Breast Research
Univ.-Klinikum Benjamin Franklin
Free University Berlin
Hindenburgdamm 30
D-12200 Berlin /Germany
"3-Hydroxyoxylipins, Novel Fungal Fatty Acid Metabolites in the Analysis of Candididiasis: Host-Pathogen Interactions"

Dr. H. Alex Brown
Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research
Department of Pharmacology: 412B PRB
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN
"Lipidomic Analysis of Phosphoinositides in Mammary Tumors"

Dr. Robert Murphy
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Department of Pharmacology
Aurora, CO
"Advances in the Application of Mass Spectrometry to the Analysis of Complex Lipids "

Dr. Timothy Hla
Professor of Cell Biology, and of Genetics and Developmental Biology
Director, Center for Vascular Biology
University of Connecticut Health Center
Farmington, CT
"Lipid mediators in angiogenesis and tumorigenesis"

Dr. Victor L. Schuster
Baumritter Professor and Chairman
Department of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and
Montefiore Medical Center
Bronx, NY

"Prostaglandin Reuptake by PGT: A New Model for Controlling PG Signaling"

Dr. Takao Shimizu
Professor and Chairman
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
"Cytosolic Phospholipases: Biological Roles and Molecular Diversity"

Dr. Ichiro Kudo
Showa University
Department of Health Chemistry
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Tokyo, Japan
"Characterization of mice lacking cytosolic PGES and microsomal PGES-1"

Dr. Hugh Rosen
Scripps Research Institute
Dept of Immunology
Chair, Committee for Advanced Human Therapeutics
La Jolla, CA 92037

“Curious Evolution: S1P in Innate and Adaptive Immunity”

Dr. Thomas Eling
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Research Triangle Park, NC

"Alteration in gene expression by Cox inhibitors"

Dr. Yusuf A Hannun
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

“Regulation and Function of Eukaryotic Sphingomyelinases”

Dr. Edward J. Goetzl
University of California, San Francisco
Robert L. Kroc Prof. of Medicine and Immunology
San Francisco, CA

"Sphingosine 1-Phosphate and its G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Immunity"

Dr. Catherine Godson
University College Dublin,
Dept of Medicine and Therapeutics,
The Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research
Belfield, Dublin - IRELAND
“Lipoxins: Potential Anti-fibtrotic Agents in Models of Inflammation”

Dr. Kevin Lynch
Department of Pharmacology
University of Virginia Health System
Charlottesville, V
"Brown recluse spider phospholipase D as a probe of LPA biology"


Dr. Jonathan Arm

Associate Prof of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Division of Rheumatoogy, Immunology and Allergy
Boston, MA 02115
"Group V Secretory Phospholipase A2 Regulates Eicosanoid Generation and Phagocytosis in Mouse Macrophages in Response to Zymosan Stimulation"

Dr. Linda C. McPhail
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Winston-Salem, NC

“Regulation of NADPH oxidase by phosphatidic acid and phosphoinositides.”

Dr. Stefan A. Laufer
Director Institute of Pharmacy
Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen
Tuebingen, Germany

“Discovery and development of Licofelone, a LOX/COX inhibitor for the treatment of OA”

Dr. Hsin-Hsiung Daniel Tai
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Pharmacy
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

“15-Hydroxyprostaglandin Dehydrogenase (15-PGDH) and Tumorigenesis”

Dr. Thomas McIntyre
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
"Metabolism and function of oxidized phospholipids."

Dr. Scott M. Lippman
Ellen F. Knisely Distinguished Chair
Chair, Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX

"Modulating Lipoxygenases to Reverse Carcinogenesis"

Dr. Pamela T. Manning
Director, Inflammatory Mediators
Biological Sciences, SL Laboratories
Pfizer, Inc
"Roles and Interactions of COX-2 and iNOS Pathways in Preclinical Models of Pain"

Dr. Jesper Z. Haeggstrom
Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics
Karolinska Institutet
Stockholm, SWEDEN
“Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase, The Gatekeeper of Chemotactic Leukotriene B4 Biosynthesis”

Dr. John F. Parkinson
Immunology Research
Berlex Biosciences,
Richmond CA
"Stable Lipoxin A4 Analogs: New Concepts and Mechanistic Insights for the
Treatment of Inflammation, Allergy and Adaptive Immune Dysfunction"

Dr. Kikuko Watanabe
Division of Life Sciences
University of East Asia
Yamaguchi, Japan
"Structure and function of membrane-associated prostaglandin E synthase-2"

Dr. Millie Hughes-Fulford
Director, Laboratory of Cell Growth
Scientific Advisor to the Undersecretary of Veterans Affairs
Professor, University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

“Dietary Fatty Acid Promotes Gene Expression and Growth of Androgen Dependent and Independent Human Tumors”