| September 27, 2007 | Sunjay Kaushal, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Division of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery
Children's Memorial Hospital
Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine | Tissue Engineering of Cardiovascular Structures with Endothelial Progenitor Cells |
| October 11, 2007 | Keith L. March, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Physiology, and Biomedical Engineering
Director, Indiana Center for Vascular Biology and Medicine
Indiana University | Adiopose Stromal Cells in Tissue Repair and Vasculogenesis: Finding the Good in Fat |
| October 25, 2007 | Joe G. N. Garcia, MD
Lowell T. Coggeshall Professor of Medicine
Chairman, Department of Medicine
University of Chicago Medical Center | Sphingolipid Regulation of Vascular Permeability |
| November 1, 2007 | Jacob I. Sznajder, MD
Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University | Effects of Hypoxia in Alveolar Epithelial Cells |
| November 8, 2007 | Jon S. Matsumura, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Northwestern University | Thoracic EndoVascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR): State-of-the-Art |
| November 15, 2007 | Edward Lesnefsky, MD, FACC, FAHA
Chief, Cardiology Section
Louise Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center
Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve | Modulation of Myocardial Respiration Protects the Elderly Heart During Ischemia and Reperfusion: The Value of Preemptive Strikes Against Aging and Ischemic Disease |
| December 13, 2007 | Timothy D. Henry, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Minnesota
Director of Research
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation | Is Transfer for PCI in STEMI Patients Feasible Outside Europe? The MHI Level MI Program Five Years Later |
| January 10, 2008 | Lawrence B. Schook, PhD
Professor of Comparative Genomics
Gutsgell Chair, Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Development of a Porcine Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cell Cardiovascular Regeneration Model |
| January 31, 2008 | Brenda Russell, PhD
Professor of Physiology
University of Illinois, Chicago | Myocyte and Stem Cell Adaptation to Mechanical Microenvironments |
| February 7, 2008 | Robert D. Galiano, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Northwestern University | Tissue (Non)Repair: Why Some Wounds Won't Heal |
| February 14, 2008 | E. Douglas Lewandowski, PhD
Professor
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
College of Medicine
University of Illinois, Chicago | Myocardial Lipid Turnover in Cardiac Hypertrophy and Failure |
| February 25, 2008 | Thomas Meade, PhD
Eileen M. Foell Professor of Cancer Research
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University | Seeing is Believing: Molecular Probes that Tell it Like it Is |
| February 28, 2008 | Eugene M. Silinsky, PhD
Professor and Chair
Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University | What is the Mechanism of Prejunctional Neuromuscular Fatigue? |
| March 6, 2008 | Ravi K. Birla, PhD
Research Investigator
Artificial Heart Laboratory
Section of Cardiac Surgery
University of Michigan | How do you Mend a Broken Heart? Current Treatment and Novel Strategies for Cardiovascular Disease |
| March 13, 2008 | Jonathan D. Licht, MD
Professor and Chief
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Northwestern University | Sprouty 1: a Gene Critical for Development and Growth |
| March 20, 2008 | Gustavo Leone, PhD
Assistant Professor
Comprehensive Cancer Treatment Center
Human Cancer Genetics Program
The Ohio State University | Synergistic Function of E2F7 and E2F8 in Development and Cancer |
| March 27, 2008 | Mervin C. Yoder, MD
Richard and Pauline Kingler Professor of Pediatrics
Wells Center for Pediatric Research
Indianapolis, Indiana | Defining Human Endothelial Progenitor Cells |
| April 3, 2008 | Charles J. Heckman II, PhD
Professor
Departments of Physiology and
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University | Why Inhibition is Essential for Motor Input |
| April 24, 2008 | Samuel Stupp, PhD
Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine
Northwestern University | Nanotechnology for Regenerative Medicine |
| May 1, 2008 | Robert Harrington, MD
Director, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Professor of Medicine
Duke University | Clinical Research in Academic Medical Centers: Challenges and Opportunities |
| May 8, 2008 | William M. Miller, PhD
Professor
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Northwestern University | Characterization and Modulation of Ex Vivo Megakaryocytic Differentiation |
| May 15, 2008 | David Mooney, PhD
Gordon McKay Professor of Bioengineering
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science | Angiogenesis on Demand |
| May 22, 2008 | John A. Kessler, MD
Boshes Professor of Neurology
Chairman, Department of Neurology
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University | Stem Cell Biology: Repairing the Heart and Brain |
