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The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are hosting and sponsoring this year’s Vasculata, the national summer conference for investigators and trainees working in the field of vascular biology, which runs from July 6-July 10. Co-sponsored by the University of Rochester, the event will take place at the Jacobs School, 955 Main St., Buffalo.

B. Rita Alevriadou, SUNY Empire Innovation Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Marc Halterman, senior associate dean for research in the Jacobs School, are the UB co-organizers along with Angela J. Glading, chief science officer of the Alliance to Cure Cavernous Malformations.

A program of the North American Vascular Biology Organization (NAVBO), Vasculata is held every summer to provide a forum where people working in the field can gather to share new discoveries and find opportunities for collaboration.

Topics the sessions will cover include: vascular endothelial cells and mural cells in health and disease; inflammation, angiogenesis, and vascular remodeling; stem cell-driven vascular biology, vascular grafts and intercellular communication; endothelial dysfunction in cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and other organ-specific pathologies.

Keynote talks will be given by Juan M. Melero-Martin, professor of surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and Gregory J. Bix, director of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Center at Tulane School of Medicine.

Adnan H. Siddiqui, UB Distinguished Professor and vice chair of neurosurgery, will give a lecture on “MR-based Cerebrovascular Imaging.” Jennifer K. Lang, associate professor of medicine, will give one on “Engineering Extracellular Vesicles for Cardiac Repair.”

Other talks that will be given by UB faculty include:

• “Harnessing Innate Immune cells for Regeneration of Bioengineered Vascular Graft” – Stelios T. Andreadis, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
• “Smarter Strokes: How AI is Transforming Cerebrovascular Care and Clinical Trials” – Jason M. Davies, associate professor of neurosurgery.
• “Retinal Vasculature and Angiogenesis in Visual Health and Disease” – Sarah X. Zhang, UB Distinguished Professor, Department of Ophthalmology.
• “Multiomics Approach to Developing Diagnostic/Prognostic Pipelines for Ischemic Stroke” – Vincent M. Tutino, assistant professor of pathology and anatomical sciences.

Workshop topics include: “From Bench to Bedside: Bringing Your Research to the Market” and the “Clinic and Vascular Biology Technology Forum: Experimental Platforms and Analytical Pipelines.”

The complete agenda is available on the NAVBO website.