8:30-10:00 a.m. Thursday February 10, 2005          Plaza Room		Tissue Engineering I: In vivo Applications Chair: Charles W. Patrick, Jr. — UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Co-chair: Ke-Neng Chen — Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China
	Collagen Composite Gels for Vocal Fold Restoration
		M. Hahn1, B. Teply2, M. Stevens3, S. Zeitels4 and R. Langer2 – 1TAMU College Station, TX, 2Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 3Imperial College, London, UK and 4Massachussets General Hospital, Boston, MA
	De Novo Adipogenesis in a Vascularized Biodegradable Construct
		E.K. Beahm1, L. Wu2 and R.L. Walton2 – 1UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and 2University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
	Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Expression Independently Predicts Disease-Free Survival Time in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
		K-N. Chen1,2, Z-D. Gu1, J-Y. Li1, M. Li1 and J. Gu1 – 1Beijing Cancer Hospital, Beijing, China, and 2UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
	Defective Neural Tube Closure in Conditional BMP2 Knockout Mice
		L. Ma, A.M. Moon and J.F. Martin – TAMU Health Science Center, Houston
	Ionizing Radiation Induces Apoptosis and Inhibits Neurogenesis in Rat Neural Stem Cells via the C-JUN NH2 Pathway
		Y. Kondo, T. Kanzawa and S. Kondo – UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center