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Conference Hotel –
Please book your room at the conference’s hotel:
DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago – Magnificent Mile
300 E. Ohio St.
Chicago, IL 60611
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
7:00 – 8:50 Breakfast and Career Development Round Table – Learning Networking Skills
8:50 – 9:00 Welcome Remarks (Tsutomu Kume)
9:00 – 12:00 Plenary Session 1 – Lymphatics Development and Differentiation
Chair: Hyun-Min Jung
9:00 – 9:30 Brant Weinstein (NIH)
9:30 – 10:00 Tatiana Petrova (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
10:00 – 10:30 Ben Hogan (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Kaska Koltowska (Uppsala University, Sweden)
11:30 – 12:00 Xiaolei Liu (Temple University)
12:00 – 12:30 Poster Teasers 1
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch (on your own)
14:30 – 17:00 Plenary Session 2 – Lymphatic Fluid Regulation
Chair: Tsutomu Kume
14:30 – 15:00 Gou Young Koh (KAIST, South Korea)
15:00 – 15:30 Steven Proulx (University of Bern, Switzerland)
15:30 – 16:00 Michael Davis (University of Missouri)
16:00 – 16:30 Ying Yang (University of South Florida)
16:30 – 17:30 Trainee Mixer
17:30 – 19:30 Dinner (on your own)
19:30 – 21:30 Poster Session 1
FRIDAY, JUNE 13
7:00 – 9:00 Breakfast and Career Development Round Table – Managing Career Development
9:00 – 12:00 Plenary Session 3 – Lymphatic-Immune Crosstalk
Chair: Susan Quaggin
9:00 – 9:30 Melody Schwartz (University of Chicago)
9:30 – 10:00 Nathan E. Reticker-Flynn (Stanford University)
10:00 – 10:30 Cornelia Halin Winter (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Gwendalyn J. Randolph (Washington University)
11:30 – 12:00 Vincenza Cifarelli (Saint Louis University)
12:00 – 12:30 Poster Teaser 2
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch (on your own)
14:30 – 17:00 Plenary Session 4 – Lymphatics in Metabolism
Chair: Guillermo Oliver
14:30 – 15:00 Hong Chen (Harvard Medical School)
15:00 – 15:30 Natalie Trevaskis (Monash University, Australia)
15:30 – 16:00 Catherine Martel (Montreal Heart Institute, Canada)
16:00 – 16:30 Michael Potente (Berlin Institute of Health, Germany)
16:30 – 17:00 Jorge Castrorena (Tulane University)
17:00 – 18:30 Young Investigator Session
Six short talks by early-stage investigators, selected from abstracts
18:00 – 19:30 Dinner (on your own)
19:30 – 21:30 Poster Session 2
SATURDAY, JUNE 14
7:00 – 9:00 Breakfast and Career Development Round Table – Academic and industry career paths
9:00 – 12:00 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) | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Ramaswamy Kalyanasundaram (UIC) | Miikka Vikkaula (UCLouvain, Belgium) |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | David Chang (University of Chicago) | Carrie Shawber (Columbia University) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | J. Brandon Dixon (Georgia Tech) | Denise Adams (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) |
| 10:30 – 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 Award Announcements
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch (on your own)
14:30 – 17:00 Concurrent Session 2 (Disease-oriented)
| Lymphatics, Cancer, and Metastasis (Chair: Jan Kitajewski) | Lymphatic Dysfunction in Human Diseases (Chair: Stanley Rockson) | |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Michael Detmar (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) | Natasza Kurpios (Cornell University) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Timothy Padera (Harvard Medical School) | Guillermo Oliver (Northwestern University) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Susan Thomas (Georgia Tech) | Pia Ostergaard (St George’s University of London, UK) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Dennis Jones (Boston University) | Sarah Sheppard (NIH) |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Issak Lee (Cornell University) | Hasina Outtz Reed (Weill Cornell) |
17:00 – 18:30 Plenary Session 5 – Unsolved Issues and Gaps in Lymphatic Disease (with a panel discussion chaired by Carrie Shawber)
Stanley Rockson (Stanford University)
Susan Quaggin (Northwestern University)
Toshio Ohashi (Shinshu University, Japan)
June Wu (Columbia University)
Panel Discussion
18:30 – 21:30 Farewell Dinner
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.