Track: PATHOLOGY

304 - President’s Symposium – Sugar Coating It: The Glycocalyx in Health and Disease

Session Chair(s)

• Patricia DAmore

  Speaker
  Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School

• Zhengping Hu

  Presenting Author
  Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass. Eye and Ear, Departments of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM

  Chair - Welcome and Introductions
• 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM

  Biomechanics of Endothelial Glycocalyx in Health and Disease
  

  Speaker: Michael Goligorsky – New York Medical College
• 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM

  Atherosclerosis: From the Perspective of the Endothelial Glycocalyx
  

  Speaker: Eno Ebong – Northeastern University
• 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM

  Hyperglycemia-induced Changes in the Retinal Endothelial Glycocalyx
  

  Speaker: Norman Harris – Louisiana State University Health Science Center
• 4:15 PM – 5:00 PM

  Alveolar Epithelial Glycocalyx Shedding During Viral Lung Injury: Harm or Benefit?
  

  Speaker: Eric Schmidt – University of Colorado
• 5:00 PM

  Questions and Answers