OXYGEN CLUB OF GREATER WASHINGTON, DC

Annual Meeting

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 Bethesda, MD

Chair: Gregory Kato, M.D.

Oxygen Index

http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/ys82/Oxygen.htm

Heme Proteins and Pathways in Oxidative Stress

Noon to 4 pm, October 20, 2009

Lipsett Auditorium, Building 10, NIH

12:00 to 12:10

Gregory Kato, MD, Oxygen Club President

Pulmonary and Vascular Medicine Branch, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH

Introduction

12:10 to 12:40

Daniel Freilich, CAPT, MC, USN

Infectious Diseases Service, National Naval Medical Center

Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers and Nitric Oxide Scavenging

12:45 to 1:15

Abdu Alayash, PhD

Laboratory of Biochemistry and Vascular Biology

Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration

Haptoglobin Detoxifies Free Hemoglobin by Controlling Its Vasoactive and Radical Chemistry

1:20 to 1:30

Oxygen Club Young Investigator Award

Gennadiy Kovtunovych, PhD (NICHD)

HO-1 Deficiency Significantly Impairs Heme-Iron Recycling System Through Depletion of Macrophases

1:35 to 1:45

Oxygen Club Young Investigator Award

Chi-Ming Wong, PhD. (Georgetown Univ.)

Regulation of Rho Signaling by Protein Carbonylation and Decarbonylation

2:15 to 2:45

Ryszard M. Pluta, MD, PhD

Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH

Cerebral Vasospasm Following Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Time for A New World of Thought

2:50 to 3:20

Sylvain Dore, PhD

Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

Role of Heme Oxygenase in Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke

3:25 to 4:00

David A. Wink Jr., Ph.D.

Radiation Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute

Hemeprotein Chemistry as Source of NO, NO2 and HNO under Oxidative Stress Conditions

Daniel L. Gilbert Memorial Lecture

6 pm to 8 pm, October 20, 2009

Sanford Auditorium, USUHS

Norbert Voelkel, M.D.

Director, Victoria Johnson Center for Emphysema Research, The E. Raymond Fenton Chair in Pulmonary Research, Director, Brooks Muren Center for Translational Research

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

The role of oxidative stress in pulmonary hypertension

Oxygen Club of Greater Washington, D.C. 2009 Officers

Organizing Committee, 2009 Annual Meeting

Gregory Kato (NIH) President

Connie Noguchi (NIH) Immediate Past President

Venkataraman Srinivasan (AFRRI) Treasurer

William Blakely (AFRRI) Councilor

Regina Day (USUHS) Councilor

Michael Espey (NIH) Councilor

Yuichiro Suzuki (Georgetown U.) Councilor

Jay Thakar (USUHS) Councilor

Oxygen Index

http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/ys82/Oxygen.htm