Conferences and Symposia
Organization of National or International Conferences/Symposia
Including Chairing Session
2004-2008
Organizing Committee, Session Chair, International Society of Biological Therapy, 2007
Member, Scientific Program Committee for the 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging, 2007
Co-Chair, AACR Special Conference: Innovations in Prostate Cancer, 2006
Member, Scientific Program Committee for the 5th Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Imaging, 2006
Speaker, A.C. Camargo/Sister Institution, Extramural Program, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 10/2006
Speaker, Clontech, Mountain View, CA, 10/2006
Speaker, Diagnosis and Therapeutic Discovery in Neuro-Oncology Conference, Houston, TX, 10/2006
Speaker, Aspen Seminar and Hines Reception, Aspen, CO, 07/2006
14th Spore Investigator’s Workshop, Baltimore, MD, 07/2006
2nd Annual MD Anderson Cancer Center Sister Institution Conference, Houston, TX, 06/2006
Speaker, The MDACC-Severance Symposium 2006, Seoul, Korea, 05/2006
Speaker, The University of Kumamoto, Kumamoto. Japan, 04/2006
Speaker, The 2nd Latin American Conference on Lung Cancer, Cancun, Mexico, 04/2006
Speaker, The University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 03/2006
Co-Chair, The 2006 Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposium, Miami, FL, 02/2006
Leukemia SPORE Meeting, Duarte, CA, 02/2006
Prostate SPORE Meeting, Houston, TX, 02/2006
Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, 12/2005
National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 12/2005
Speaker, The University of Texas - Houston Medical School, 11/2005
6th Peter MacCallum Cancer Symposium, Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne, Australia, 11/2005
Annual Advisory Board Meeting of the Prostate Cancer Research Program, Houston, TX, 11/2005
Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment, Candiolo, Torino-Italy, 10/2005
Department of Biological and Technological Research of San Raffaele H Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy, 10/2005
12th Annual Scientific Retreat, Prostate Cancer Foundation, Phoenix, AZ, 09/2005
87th ENDO 2005 Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society, San Diego, CA, 06/2005
VI COPEM - Sao Paulo Congress on Endocrinology and Metabolism, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 05/2005
Research Centre of Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 05/2005
Liver Cancer Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 05/2005
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, 04/2005
Chair and Speaker, Institutional Grand Rounds: Cancer Viral Therapies: Untargeted Buggin, Houston, TX 04/2005
3rd Annual Opinion Leader Consortium on Novel and Targeted Therapies for Head and Neck Cancer, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, 02/2005
Advances in Oncology Institutional Grand Rounds, Houston, TX 01/2005
AACR Special Conference Committee Meeting, Miami Beach, FL, 01/2005
Gordon Research Conference: Fibronectin, Integrins & Related Molecules, Ventura, CA, 01/2005
Imperial College, London, England, 11/2004
Symposium New Therapies in Cancer, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas, Madrid, Spain, 11/2004
AACR: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Advances in Prostate Cancer, Bonita Springs, FL, 11/2004
NIH CIP Workshop on High-Throughput Technologies, Washington, DC, 11/2004
10th Prouts Neck Prostate Cancer Meeting, Prouts Neck, Maine, 11/2004
MD Anderson & Imperial College, Texas-UK Collaborative Research Initiatives, Houston, TX, 10/2004
1st European Conference on Tumor Angiogenesis, Munich, Germany, 10/2004
Division of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Grand Rounds, Houston, TX, 09/2004
2nd “Biologie Prospective” Annual Santorini Conference, Santorini Greece, 09/2004
3rd International Symposium on Extracellular Matrix (SIMEC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 09/2004
Grover Conference on the Pulmonary Circulation: Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Pulmonary Endothelial Cell Function, Sedalia, CO, 09/2004
Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, 08/2004
Gordon Research Conference, Endothelial Cell Phenotypes in Health & Disease, Andover, NH 08/2004
12th SPORE Investigator's Workshop, Baltimore, MD, 07/2004
Gordon Research Conference, Molecular Therapeutics of Cancer, New London, NH, 07/2004
32nd Meeting of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine (ISOBM), Helsinki, Finland, 06/2004
Thomas L. Petty Aspen Lung Conference 47th Annual Meeting on Cellular and Molecular Pathobiology of Pulmonary Hypertension, Aspen, CO, 06/2004
The 5th Principal Investigators (PI) Meeting of the Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) Program, San Diego, CA, 06/2004
Alliance for NanoHealth Workshop, Texas Heart Institute, Denton Cooley Auditorium, Houston, TX, 05/2004
U54 External Advisory Board Meeting, Houston, TX, 05/2004
NCI Angiogenesis Workshop, Towson, MD, 05/2004
Mayo Oncology Society, April Oncology Society Presentation, Rochester, MN, 04/2004
Participated in the VP Extramural Programs Meeting, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 03/2004
Cellular, Molecular, and Tumor Biology, 95th Annual AACR meeting, Orlando, FL, 03/204
Institutional Grand Rounds, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 03/2004
Ethics Consensus Panel Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 02/2004