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A WINTHROP ROCKEFELLER CONFERENCE
MAY 6 -9, 2015 | A G E ND A
WEDNESDAY, M AY 6
2:00 p.m.
Registration/Check-in - Front Lobby
6:00 p.m.
Welcome reception - President’s Lodge Great Room
8:00 p.m.
Dinner - River Rock Grill
THURSDAY, MAY 7
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast - River Rock Grill
9:00 a.m.
Welcome by Dr. Marta Loyd and opening remarks by Dr. Martin Hauer-Jensen - Rock Theater
Post-therapy Side Effects
Chaired by Dr. Martin Hauer-Jensen, UAMS Division of Radiation Health
Co-chaired by Dr. Rosemary Wong, National Cancer Institute Radiation Research Program
9:15 a.m.
“GI Consequences of Pelvic Radiotherapy: A Clinician’s Perspective”
Jervoise Andreyev, M.D., Ph.D.
The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, United Kingdom
9:50 a.m.
“Radiation Induced Rectal Injury: A Radiation Oncologist’s Perspective”
Jim Denham, M.D.
University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia
10:20 a.m.
Break - Flagstone Foyer
10:35 a.m.
“Novel Strategies to Spare Normal Tissues from Damages Induced by Radiation Therapy”
Marie-Catherine Vozenin, Ph.D.
University Hospital of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Oral Presentations
Chaired by Dr. Rosemary Wong, National Cancer Institute Radiation Research Program
Co-chaired by Dr. Martin Hauer-Jensen, UAMS Division of Radiation Health
11:10 a.m.
“Circulating Microparticles Associate to Severe Radiation Proctitis Consecutive to
Abdomino-Pelvic Radiotherapy”
Radia Tamarat, IRSN
Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
11:30 a.m.
“Racial Differences TGFβ1 Gene Polymorphisms Are Associated With Radiation Induced
Late Normal Tissue Toxicity”
Mitchell Anscher
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va., U.S.A.
11:50 a.m.
“Latexin Inactivation Mitigates Radiotherapy-induced Myelosuppression”
Ying Liang
University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., U.S.A.
12:10 p.m.
“Microbeam Radiation Therapy Intrinsically Lacks Treatment Toxicity”
Sha Chang
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C., U.S.A.
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THURSDAY, MAY 7 (CONT.)
12:30 p.m.
“A Novel Radiation Esophagitis Predictive Model with IL-8, Dosimetric and Clinical Factors
for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients”
Feng-Ming Kong
Georgia Regents University, St. Augusta, Ga., U.S.A.
12:45 p.m.
Lunch - River Rock Grill
Space Radiation
Chaired by Dr. Marjan Boerma, UAMS Division of Radiation Health
Co-chaired by Dr. Catherine Davis, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1:45 p.m.
“Radiobiology of Charged Particles”
Tom Hei, Ph.D.
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, N.Y., United States
2:20 p.m.
“Why Cancer Treatments Dull the Senses and How to Re-Sharpen the Tools in the S ‘Head’”
Charles Limoli, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine, Calif., United States
2:55 p.m.
“The Space Radiation Environment and its Associated Risks”
Gregory Nelson, Ph.D.
Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, Calif., United States
3:25 p.m.
Break - Flagstone Foyer
Oral Presentations
Chaired by Dr. Catherine Davis, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Co-chaired by Dr. Marjan Boerma, UAMS Division of Radiation Health
3:40 p.m.
“Principal Component Analysis of Plasma Cytokine Changes during Hypofractionated
SBRT in Patients with Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: Is there a difference from conventionally
fractionated radiation?”
Feng-Ming Kong
Georgia Regents University, St. Augusta, Ga., U.S.A.
4:00 p.m.
“Relative Effectiveness of Heavy Ions with Different Linear Energy Transfer on Lung
Tumorigenesis”
Ya Wang
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga., U.S.A.
4:20 p.m.
“Gastrointestinal Changes Differ Between Radiation Injuries under Different Stress
Conditions in Mouse”
Rao Papineni
Precision X-Ray, Inc. & University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan., U.S.A.
4:40 p.m.
“Endothelial Dysfunction is an Early Predictive Marker for Delayed Radiation-caused Normal
Tissue Toxicity”
Mohan Natarajan
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
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THURSDAY, MAY 7 (CONT.)
5:00 p.m.
“Repetitive Element LINE-1 in Response to Ionizing Radiation”
Igor Koturbash
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Ark., U.S.A.
Poster Presentation Reception
5:30 p.m.
7:30 - 10:30 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
Poster Presentation Reception Sponsored by Precision X-ray, Inc - Governor’s Conference Room
Jazz band, The Goat Band - River Rock Grill Bar
Dinner - River Rock Grill
FRIDAY, MAY 8
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast - River Rock Grill
Radiological Emergencies
Chaired by Dr. Daohong Zhou, UAMS Division of Radiation Health
Co-chaired by Dr. Francesca Macchiarini, NIH/NIAID/RNCP
9:00 a.m.
“Niche-derived Mitigators of Radiation-induced Hematopoietic Failure”
John Chute, M.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., United States
9:35 a.m.
“Stem Cell-based Therapies for Gastrointestinal Acute Radiation Syndrome”
Chandan Guha, M.B.B.S., Ph.D.
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, N.Y., United States
10:10 a.m.
“Countermeasures to Radiation Injury”
Jacqueline Williams, Ph.D.
University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y., United States
10:40 a.m.
Break - Flagstone Foyer
Oral Presentations
Chaired by Dr. Francesca Macchiarini, NIH/NIAID/RNCP
Co-chaired by Dr. Daohong Zhou, UAMS Division of Radiation Health
10:55 a.m.
“Reduction of Lethality Risks after Application of Medical Countermeasures against
Radiation”
Dunstana Melo
Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute, Albuquerque, N.M., U.S.A.
11:15 a.m.
“Role of the Incident and Emergency Centre (International Atomic Energy Agency) in
Radiation Emergencies and Last Accidents in Latin America”
Eduardo Herrera Reyes
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
“Stem Cell Therapy: From Bench to Bedside”
Radia Tamarat, IRSN
Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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FRIDAY, MAY 8 (CONT.)
11:50 a.m.
“Effects of AVX-470m, a Gut-targeted Anti-TNF Polyclonal Antibody, on Survival and
Biomarkers in Multiple Murine Models of Gastrointestinal Acute Radiation Syndrome”
Deborah Hartman
Avaxia Biologics, Lexington, Mass., U.S.A.
12:10 a.m.
“Mitigation of Non-hematopoietic Radiation-induced Injuries in Rats by FDA–approved
Drugs and Supportive Care”
Meetha Medhora
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis., U.S.A.
12:30 p.m.
“Tocotrienols as Novel Radiation Countermeasures”
Sanchita Ghosh
AFRRI/USUHS, Bethesda, Md., U.S.A.
12:45 p.m.
Lunch - River Rock Grill
1:30 p.m.
Conference Summary by Dr. Martin Hauer-Jensen - Rock Theater
2:00 p.m.
Networking/poster viewing
6:00 p.m.
Dinner - Showbarn Hall
7:30 p.m.
Bluegrass band, Runaway Planet - River Rock Grill Bar
SATURDAY, MAY 9
8:00 a.m.
Breakfast - River Rock Grill
9:30 a.m.
Guests Check-out - Front Desk