The Lymphatic Forum 2025 (LF2025) is the sixth iteration of this biennial event that brings together researchers from around the world to present and discuss studies of lymphatics in health and disease.
The meeting has been organized by Tsutomu Kume, Northwestern University, Jan Kitajewski and Hyun Min Jung, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Abstracts are due March 15, 2025 – Click here to submit your abstract.
Conference Hotel –
Please book your room at the conference’s hotel:
DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago – Magnificent Mile
300 E. Ohio St.
Chicago, IL 60611
Hotel Website
Rooms have been reserved for our attendees from June 11 to June 14 (three nights).The rate is $259 a night plus taxes and fees for single, double, triple and quadruple occupancy. Rooms have two queen beds.
If you wish to extend your stay, you can add up to three nights at the conference rate if rooms are available. Sorry, there are no rooms available prior to the meeting.
Make your reservations by May 11, 2025 – after this date, unreserved rooms will be released to the public and our group rate is no longer available.
The hotel’s cancellation policy: no penalty if cancelled more than 72 hours prior to arrival; within the 72 hours, there is a one night room and tax penalty fee.
Lymphatic Forum 2025
Northwestern University – June 12th-14th, 2025
Preliminary Program
THURSDAY, JUNE 12
8:20 – 8:30 Welcome Remarks (Tsutomu Kume)
8:30 – 12:00 Plenary Session 1 – Lymphatics Development and Differentiation
Chair: Hyun-Min Jung
8:30 – 9:00 Brant Weinstein (NIH)
9:00 – 9:30 Tatiana Petrova (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
9:30 – 10:00 Ben Hogan (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00 Kaska Koltowska (Uppsala University, Sweden)
11:00 – 11:30 Xiaolei Liu (Temple University)
11:30 – 12:00 Short Talks (from selected abstracts)
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
12:00 – 1:30 For Trainees: Career Development Round Table – Learning networking skills
($10 pre-registration required/includes lunch)
1:30 – 5:00 Plenary Session 2 – Lymphatic Fluid Regulation
Chair: Tsutomu Kume
1:30 – 2:00 Gou Young Koh (KAIST, South Korea)
2:00 – 2:30 Steven Proulx (University of Bern, Switzerland)
2:30 – 3:00 Short Talks (from selected abstracts)
3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:00 Michael Davis (University of Missouri)
4:00 – 4:30 Ying Yang (University of South Florida)
4:30 – 5:00 Short Talks (from selected abstracts)
5:30 – 7:30 Welcome Dinner
7:30 – 9:30 Poster Presentation 1
FRIDAY, JUNE 13
8:30 – 12:00 Plenary Session 3 – Lymphatic-Immune Crosstalk
Chair: Susan Quaggin
8:30 – 9:00 Melody Schwartz (University of Chicago)
9:00 – 9:30 Nathan E. Reticker-Flynn (Stanford University)
9:30 – 10:00 Cornelia Halin Winter (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00 Gwendalyn J. Randolph (Washington University)
11:00 – 11:30 Vincenza Cifarelli (Saint Louis University)
11:30 – 12:00 Short Talks (from selected abstracts)
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
12:00 – 1:30 For Trainees: Career Development Round Table – Managing Your Career
($10 pre-registration required/includes lunch)
1:30 – 4:50 Plenary Session 4 – Lymphatics in Metabolism
Chair: Guillermo Oliver
1:30 – 2:00 Hong Chen (Harvard Medical School)
2:00 – 2:30 Natalie Trevaskis (Monash University, Australia)
2:30 – 3:00 Catherine Martel (Montreal Heart Institute, Canada
3:00 – 3:20 Break
3:20 – 3:50 Michael Potente (Berlin Institute of Health, Germany)
3:50 – 4:20 Jorge Castrorena (Tulane University)
4:20 – 4:50 Short Talks (from selected abstracts)
4:50 – 5:00 Break
5:00 – 6:30 Plenary Session 5 – Unsolved Issues and Gaps in Lymphatic Disease (with a panel discussion or roundtable
Chair: Carrie Shawber
5:00 – 5:20 Susan Quaggin (Northwestern University)
5:20 – 5:40 Toshio Ohashi (Shinshu University, Japan)
5:40 – 6:00 June Wu (Columbia University)
6:00 – 6:30 Panel Discussion
6:30 – 8:00 Dinner (on your own)
8:00 – 10:00 Poster Presentation 2
SATURDAY, JUNE 14
8:15 – 9:15 Young Investigator Session (Two Postdocs will be chosen from applications)
9:15 – 12:30 Concurrent Session 1 (Disease-oriented)
| Lymphatic Disease Detection, Therapeutic Innovations, Clinical Trials (Chair: June Wu) | Lymphatic Malformation and Pathobiology and Clinical Trials (Chair: Luisa Iruela-Arispe) | |
| 9:15 – 9:45 | Ramaswamy Kalyanasundaram (UIC) | Miikka Vikkula (UCLouvain, Belgium) |
| 9:45 – 10:15 | David Chang (University of Chicago) | Carrie Shawber (Columbia University) |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | J. Brandon Dixon (Georgia Tech) | Denise Adams (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Andreas Loening (Stanford) | Michael Dellinger (UT Southwestern) |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Stanley Rockson (Stanford University) | Stéphanie Lenck (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital Paris, France) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Short Talks (from selected abstracts) | Short Talks (from selected abstracts) |
12:30 – 2:00 Lunch (on your own)
2:00 – 4:45 Concurrent Session 2 (Disease-oriented)
| Lymphatics, Cancer, and Metastasis (Chair: Jan Kitajewski) | Lymphatic Dysfunction in Human Diseases (Chair: Stanley Rockson) | |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Short Talks (from selected abstracts) | Natasza Kurpios (Cornell University) |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Timothy Padera (Harvard Medical School) | Guillermo Oliver (Northwestern University) |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | Susan Thomas (Georgia Tech) | Pia Ostergaard (St George’s University of London, UK) |
| 3:30 – 3:45 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 3:45 – 4:15 | Dennis Jones (Boston University) | Sarah Sheppard (NIH) |
| 4:15 – 4:45 | Issak Lee (Cornell University) | Hasina Outtz Reed (Weill Cornell) |
4:45 – 5:00 Closing Remarks
Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by 1R13HL168860 from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.