The Interdisciplinary Angiogenesis Network aims:
Summary: Angiogenesis is the process by which new blood vessels are formed, and it plays a major role in normal development and a number of medical conditions such as cancer, vascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and impaired wound healing. However, our understanding of angiogenesis is critically retarded by its inherent complexity and consequent recalcitrance to the application of standard biological methodologies. An Angiogenesis Network will bring together a number of internationally renowned researchers from multiple disciplines within biology, medicine, engineering, and the physical sciences. This group activity will enhance the development of innovative techniques that could not be achieved in isolation. A truly interdisciplinary network devoted to the study of angiogenesis will engage life scientists, clinicians, engineers and physical scientists in developing new approaches and methodologies to improve our understanding of angiogenesis in a variety of contexts, including normal development, wound healing, tumour growth, and tissue engineering.
The
Network will establish and maintain a multi-disciplinary research
consortium interested in determining the mechanisms controlling new
blood vessel formation. A series of workshops will allow for the
presentation of frontier research, encourage extensive discussion,
generate important new projects and techniques, and promote a sense of
community. In addition, the Network will embody an openness to new
ideas and concepts, and to input from less established participants.
This will enable them to develop personal contacts with more senior
researchers, and contribute to the development of a new generation of
scientists that transcend the traditional barriers between disciplines.
An important target is to involve the full range of engineering and the
physical sciences, including experimental and computational chemistry,
engineering, mathematics, physics, information science and materials
science. This very broad range of expertise is a particularly exciting
feature of the Network, and should lead to a number of novel,
unexpected, and adventurous collaborations.
Inaugural meeting, Nottingham, 27/28 March 2006 | Photos
2nd ANGIONET Meeting, Sheffield, 8/9 January 2007
3rd ANGIONET Meeting, Coleraine, 18-20 June 2007 | Photos
British Microcirculation Society, Satellite Symposium, King's College London, 31 March 2008
Tissue and Cell Engineering Society Annual Conference Focus on Angiogenesis in Tissue Engineering, Nottingham, 4 July 2008
London 2008 Physiological Society, Vascular & Smooth Muscle Themed Meeting, Mechanotransduction and vascular remodelling (session sponsored by ANGIONET)
Dundee 2009 ANGIONET Meeting, 20-22 April 2009
Dr Markus Owen (PI) School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK |
Professor David Williams (CoI) Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU |
Prof. M.A.J. Chaplain, F.R.S.E. The SIMBIOS Centre Division of Mathematics University of Dundee Dundee DD1 4HN SCOTLAND |
Dr Christopher A. Mitchell Centre for Molecular Biosciences University of Ulster at Coleraine Cromore Road, Coleraine Co. Londonderry BT52 1SA |
Dr Danny O'Hare CChem FRSC Reader in Sensor Research Physiological Flow Studies Group Department of Bioengineering Imperial College Chemical Engineering Building Prince Consort Road London SW7 2BY |
Professor Gillian Tozer |