Chair: Amander T. Clark, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
Plenary Speaker: Magdalena Goetz, PhD (she/her/hers) – Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)
Plenary Speaker: Tina Mukherjee, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)
Plenary Speaker: Kathrin Plath, PhD – University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine
Plenary Speaker: Sarah Teichmann, FRS, FMedSci (she/her/hers) – Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute & Department of Medicine
Presenter: David Pedrosa – Universitätsklinikum Giessen und Marburg, Standort Marburg, Baldingerstraße
Presenter: Viviane Tabar, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Showcase Presenter: Andrew Gaffney – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Magdalena Kasendra, PhD – Center for Stem Cell & Organoid Medicine (CuSTOM) at Cincinnati Children's
Showcase Presenter: Katie Kilgour, PhD – Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America, Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Jessica Hartman – Cell Microsystems
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Michael Roberts, PhD
Showcase Presenter: Meghan Everett, PhD
Showcase Presenter: Catriona Jamieson, PhD
Showcase Presenter: Valentina Fossati, PhD
Showcase Presenter: Jeanne Loring, PhD – Scripps Research Institute
Showcase Presenter: Arun Sharma – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Regenerative Medicine Institute
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Felix Spira – Molecular Devices
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Brian Hawkins – Pluristyx, Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Adam Hirst – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Co-Chair: Filipe Pereira, PhD (he/him/his) – Lund University
Co-Chair: Barbara Treutlein, PhD (she/her/hers) – ETH Zürich
Plenary Speaker: Jonathan Weissman, PhD – Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, HHMI, MIT
Plenary Speaker: Fabian Theis, PhD (he/him/his) – Helmholtz Zentrum München
Plenary Speaker: Susanne Rafelski, PhD (she/her/hers) – Allen Institute for Cell Science
Plenary Speaker: Matthias P. Lutolf, PhD – Institute of Human Biology (IHB) F. Hoffmann-La Roche
Award Winner: Jun Wu, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
New Technologies
Science Spotlight Moderator: Ana Hidalgo-Simon, MD, PhD – Leiden University Medical Center
Science Spotlight Speaker: Stefan Irion, MD (he/him/his) – BlueRock Therapeutics
Science Spotlight Speaker: Melanio Unas Mauricio, III, MSc (he/him/his) – Leiden University Medical Center
Science Spotlight Speaker: Lisa Ott de Bruin, MD, PhD – Leiden University Medical Centre
Science Spotlight Speaker: Chantal van Litsenburg, MSc, MBA (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center
Science Spotlight Speaker: Leanne Rees, B.App.Sc.(Physiotherapy), MPH, PhD – Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, reNEW PREPARE
Science Spotlight Speaker: Josefine Rågård Christiansen, MSc (she/her/hers) – University of Copenhagen
Science Spotlight
Science Spotlight Moderator: Malkiel A. Cohen, PhD (he/him/his) – Wanda Fish
Science Spotlight Moderator: Neta Lavon, PhD (she/her/hers) – Aleph Farms
Science Spotlight Speaker: Paul Burridge, PhD – Northwestern University
Science Spotlight Speaker: Annisa Chand, PhD (she/her/hers) – Nature Food
Science Spotlight Speaker: Niraimathi Govindasamy, PhD (she/her/hers) – Bluu Seafood
Science Spotlight Speaker: Michelle Hauser – TAU / The Good Food Institute
Science Spotlight Speaker: Shulamit Levenberg, PhD – Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Science Spotlight Speaker: Shigeki Sugii, PhD – SIFBI, A*STAR / ImpacFat
Science Spotlight Speaker: Christine Ling Li Trautmann – ETH Zürich
Science Spotlight Speaker: Maria Fernandes, PhD – Meatable
Science Spotlight
Science Spotlight Moderator: Gregory Block, PhD (he/him/his) – Histone Therapeutics
Science Spotlight Moderator: Isaac R. Gabriel, Student – University College London
Science Spotlight Speaker: Debattama R. Sen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard University / Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research
Science Spotlight Speaker: Sara Che, PhD – Tune Therapeutics
Science Spotlight Speaker: Hannele Ruohola-Baker, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
Science Spotlight Speaker: Lise Munsie, PhD – CCRM
Science Spotlight Speaker: Rowan Flynn, PhD – RoslinCT
Science Spotlight Speaker: Sarah J. Dickerson (she/her/hers) – FUJIFILM
Science Spotlight
Science Spotlight Moderator: Dana Brinson, BSc (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
Science Spotlight Moderator: Golnaz Karoubi – University Health Network
Science Spotlight Speaker: Sara Wickström, MD, PhD – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
Science Spotlight Speaker: Claudia Loebel, MD, PhD – University of Michigan
Science Spotlight Speaker: Dylan Mostert, PhD – Eindhoven University of Technology
Science Spotlight
Science Spotlight Moderator: Georg Csukovich, PhD – University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna
Science Spotlight Speaker: Sina Bartfeld, PhD – Technische Universität Berlin
Science Spotlight Speaker: Lena Schorr, MSc (she/her/hers) – German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg
Science Spotlight Speaker: Merve Ceylan, MSc – Uppsala University
Science Spotlight
Focus Session Speaker: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD – WiCell Research Institute
Focus Session Speaker: Laurent David, PhD – Universite de Nantes
Focus Session Speaker: Camille Tempier Lemey, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies
Focus Session Speaker: Dmitry A. Ovchinnikov, PhD – The Florey / University of Melbourne
Focus Session Speaker: Grazia Iannello, PhD – Columbia University
Focus Session Speaker: Sebastian Diecke, PhD – Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine
Focus Session Speaker: Sarah Perez Munoz, PhD – Thermo Fisher Scientific
Focus Session
Chair: Brian Aguado, PhD – University of California San Diego
Speaker: Ralda Nehme, PhD – Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Harvard University
Speaker: Raeka Aiyar, PhD (she/her/hers) – The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute
Speaker: Magdalena Kasendra, PhD – Center for Stem Cell & Organoid Medicine (CuSTOM) at Cincinnati Children's
Ethics, Policy and Standards
Moderator: Thomas Hutschalik, MSc (he/him/his) – Ncardia Services B.V.
Panelist: Chris Bond – Notch Therapeutics
Panelist: Melissa K. Carpenter, PhD – Carpenter Consulting Corporation
Panelist: Giuliana Gagliardi, PhD – European Research Council Executive Agency
Panelist: Tina Mukherjee, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem)
Panel
Theater Speaker: Bilada Bilican, PhD – AstraZaneca
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Reda Zenagui – Stem Genomics
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Rock Pulak – Union Biometrica, Inc
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Philipp Nold – Eppendorf SE
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Irene Wei
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Pinar Mesci, PhD
Exhibit Hall Theater
Co-Chair: Dimitri Kullmann, MD, PhD – University College London
Co-Chair: Tamar Harel Adar, PhD – Matricelf
Concurrent Speaker: Ganna Bilousova, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Presenting Author: Tatsuma Kondo, MD (he/him/his) – Nagoya University
Presenting Author: Jacqueline Bliley – Carnegie Mellon University
Presenting Author: Shulin Li, PhD, PhD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Presenting Author: Holly K. Voges, PhD – Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Concurrent Speaker: Ludovic Vallier, PhD – Berlin Institute of Health at Charite
Clinical Applications
Co-Chair: Gabsang Lee, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Co-Chair: Ryuji Morizane, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Massachusetts General Hospital
Concurrent Speaker: David Elliott – MCRI
Presenting Author: Helmuth Gehart, PhD (he/him/his) – ETH Zürich
Presenting Author: Deepali Pal, PhD – University of Bristol
Presenting Author: Esther Fousert – Leiden University Medical Center
Presenting Author: Shalaka Chitale, PhD – CytoTronics Inc.
Concurrent Speaker: Meritxell Huch, PhD (she/her/hers) – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics (MPI-CBG)
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Co-Chair: Miki Ebisuya, PhD (she/her/hers) – Physics of Life TU Dresden
Co-Chair: Ron Weiss, PhD – MIT
Presenting Author: Madeline Lancaster, PhD – MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Presenting Author: Daniel Postrach (he/him/his) – German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Presenting Author: Duncan M. Chadly, BS, BA (he/him/his) – Caltech
Presenting Author: Ramon Pfaendler (he/him/his) – ETH Zürich
Presenting Author: Laura A. Fischer (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis
Concurrent Speaker: Bernd Bodenmiller, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
New Technologies
Co-Chair: Katsuhiko Hayashi, PhD (he/him/his) – Osaka University
Co-Chair: Shahragim Tajbakhsh, PhD – Pasteur Institute
Concurrent Speaker: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu, PhD (she/her/hers) – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Presenting Author: Bernardo Oldak, MD, MSc, PhD student – Weizmann Institute of Science
Presenting Author: Anchel de Jaime-Soguero, PhD – Heidelberg University
Presenting Author: Karlien Van Nerum – University of Copenhagen
Presenting Author: Raquel Fueyo – Stanford University
Concurrent Speaker: Sophie Petropoulos, PhD – Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and University of Montreal
Pluripotency and Development
Co-Chair: Elisa Laurenti, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
Co-Chair: Sirio Dupont, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Padova
Concurrent Speaker: Kyoko Miura, PhD (she/her/hers) – Kumamoto University
Presenting Author: Silvia Sighinolfi, PhD – IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Presenting Author: Jonathan Bayerl, PhD – University of California, San Francisco
Presenting Author: Elisa Gabassi – University of Innsbruck
Presenting Author: Rui Yue, PhD – Tongji University
Concurrent Speaker: Salvador Aznar Benitah, PhD – Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
Somatic Stem Cells, Cancer and Regeneration
Focus Session Speaker: Audrey Holtzinger, PhD – Evotec
Focus Session Speaker: Matthias Austen, PhD – Evotec
Focus Session Speaker: Andrea Ditadi, PhD – Ospedale San Raffaele
Focus Session Speaker: Nico Lachmann, PhD – Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Focus Session Speaker: Marius Ader, PhD – Technische University Dresden/CRTD
Focus Session
Chair: Kapil Bharti, PhD – National Eye Institute; National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health
Concurrent Speaker: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD – WiCell Research Institute
Concurrent Speaker: Glyn Stacey, PhD – National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
Concurrent Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, PhD (he/him/his) – SmartCella
Concurrent Speaker: Jacqueline Barry, PhD – Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult
Concurrent Speaker: Derek Hei, PhD – Kenai Therapeutics
Concurrent Speaker: Jeanne Loring, PhD – Scripps Research Institute
Concurrent Speaker: Roger Barker, MRCP PhD – University of Cambridge
Ethics, Policy and Standards
Co-Chair: Hans R. Schöler, PhD, Professor – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
Plenary Speaker: Jennifer Nichols, PhD – University of Edinburgh
Plenary Speaker: Maria Elena Torres-Padilla, PhD – Helmholtz Zentrum München
Plenary Speaker: Mansi Srivastava, PhD – Harvard University
Plenary Speaker: Alfonso Martinez Arias, PhD – Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
Pluripotency and Development
Showcase Presenter: Ilyas Singeç – FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Roger Pedersen – Stanford University
Showcase Presenter: Matthias Pawlowski – University of Münster
Showcase Presenter: Sejla Salic-Hainzl – bit.bio Vienna
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Lucienne Vonk – Xintela
Showcase Presenter: Nicolas Andre – Corning Life Sciences
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Feng Guo – Indiana University Bloomington
Showcase Presenter: Marian Hruska-Plochan – University of Zurich
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Sebastian Knöbel – Miltenyi Biotec
Showcase Presenter: Stephan Werk – Miltenyi Biotec
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Jinyuan Wang, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Michael Laurence Akenhead, PhD – Thermo Fisher Scientific
Showcase Presenter: Juda-El Sam – Scinus Cell Expansion Netherlands BV
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Gonçalo Regalo – FUJIFILM PORTUGAL S.A.
Innovation Showcase
Co-Chair: Kim B. Jensen, PhD – Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology – reNEW, University of Copenhagen
Co-Chair: Lucy Erin O'Brien, PhD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University School of Medicine
Plenary Speaker: Cristina Lo Celso, PhD (she/her/hers) – Imperial College London
Plenary Speaker: Heinrich Jasper, PhD (he/him/his) – Genentech
Plenary Speaker: Fiona Doetsch, PhD – University of Basel
Plenary Speaker: Elaine Fuchs, PhD – HHMI, The Rockefeller University
Somatic Stem Cells, Cancer and Regeneration
Theater Speaker: Lise Munsie, PhD – CCRM
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Rea Dabelic – NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc.
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Maya Fuerstenau-Sharp – Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Patrick Walsh – Anatomic Incorporated
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Anil Kumar
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Fabiana Izaguirre
Exhibit Hall Theater
Showcase Presenter: Sercan Deniz – 3Brain AG
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Evan L. Graham – BioLamina
Showcase Presenter: Terri Gaskell – Rinri Therapeutics Ltd.
Showcase Presenter: Brian Hawkins – Pluristyx, Inc.
Showcase Presenter: Ilse Eidhof – Lund University and Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Rachel Steeg – Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd
Showcase Presenter: Julia Neubauer – Fraunhofer-IBMT
Showcase Presenter: Jeanette Wihan – Fraunhofer-IBMT
Showcase Presenter: Ralf Kettenhofen – Fraunhofer-IBMT
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Evan Appleton – Colossal Biosciences
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Robert Brownlee – PeptiGrowth Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Alexander Trampe – PromoCell GmbH
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Maxime Feyeux – TreeFrog Therapeutics
Showcase Presenter: Joffrey Mianne – TreeFrog Therapeutics
Showcase Presenter: Clément Rieu – TreeFrog Therapeutics
Innovation Showcase
Co-Chair: Felicia Pagliuca, PhD – Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Co-Chair: Ludovic Vallier, PhD – Berlin Institute of Health at Charite
Concurrent Speaker: Benedikt Berninger, PhD (he/him/his) – King's College London
Presenting Author: Michela Milani, PhD (she/her/hers) – IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital
Presenting Author: Alessandra Ricca, PhD – San Raffaele hospital
Presenting Author: Carine Bourdais – Université de Montpellier, INSERM, CHU Montpellier
Presenting Author: Thomas Berger, PhD – Catalent Cell & Gene Therapy
Concurrent Speaker: Dimitri Kullmann, MD, PhD – University College London
Clinical Applications
Co-Chair: David Elliott – MCRI
Co-Chair: Sonia Gandhi, BMBCh PhD (she/her/hers) – The Francis Crick Institute and University College London
Concurrent Speaker: Eva van Rooij, PhD – Hubrecht Institute
Presenting Author: Nathalie Saurat, PhD – MSKCC
Presenting Author: Aman George, PhD – National Institutes of Health
Presenting Author: Abel Vertesy, PhD – IMBA - Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Austria
Presenting Author: Tianyuan Shi, PhD (she/her/hers) – The University of Hong Kong
Concurrent Speaker: Jeffrey Beekman, PhD – University Medical Center Utrecht
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Co-Chair: Baris Tursun, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Hamburg
Co-Chair: Filipe Pereira, PhD (he/him/his) – Lund University
Concurrent Speaker: Barbara Treutlein, PhD (she/her/hers) – ETH Zürich
Presenting Author: Christopher Esk, PhD – University of Innsbruck
Presenting Author: Enes Ugur, PhD – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Presenting Author: Marieke Van Leeuwen, MSc. (she/her/hers) – Erasmus MC
Presenting Author: Indranil Singh, M.Sc. – IRB Barcelona - Institute for Research in Biomedicine
Concurrent Speaker: Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, PhD (he/him/his) – Karolinska Institutet
New Technologies
Co-Chair: Aydan Bulut-Karslioglu, PhD (she/her/hers) – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Co-Chair: Sophie Petropoulos, PhD – Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and University of Montreal
Concurrent Speaker: Yasuhiro Takashima, MD, PhD – Kyoto University
Presenting Author: Auriana Arabpour – University of California, Los Angeles
Presenting Author: Jin Zhang, PhD – Zhejiang University
Presenting Author: Madeleine Linneberg-Agerholm – Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW)
Presenting Author: Yung Su Kim, PhD – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Concurrent Speaker: Mo R. Ebrahimkhani, MD (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh
Pluripotency and Development
Co-Chair: Kenneth Poss, PhD – Duke University Medical Center
Concurrent Speaker: Sirio Dupont, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Padova
Presenting Author: Giulia Savorè, MD – University of Torino
Presenting Author: Pamela L. Wenzel, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Presenting Author: Qiaoling Zhu, PhD – Tongji University
Presenting Author: Clementine Villeneuve, PhD – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
Concurrent Speaker: Eugenia Piddini, PhD – University of Bristol
Somatic Stem Cells, Cancer and Regeneration
Focus Session Speaker: Charis Segeritz-Walko, PhD – Novo Nordisk A/S
Focus Session Speaker: Brendan Christopher Jones, MD, PhD – Novo Nordisk A/S
Focus Session Speaker: Melissa H. Little, AC, PhD – Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW), Denmark, and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia
Focus Session Speaker: Catherine Priest, PhD (she/her/hers) – Neurona Therapeutics
Focus Session Speaker: M. Cristina Nostro – McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine UHN
Focus Session
Focus Session Speaker: Sandra Milasta, PhD – BlueRock Therapeutics
Focus Session Speaker: Wolfram H. Zimmermann, MD, PhD – University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG)
Focus Session Speaker: Mark R. Kotter, MD, PhD – bit.bio
Focus Session Speaker: Christine Günther, MD – Evotec
Focus Session Speaker: Lorenz Studer, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Focus Session
Co-Chair: Christine L. Mummery, PhD – Leiden University Medical Center
Co-Chair: Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Keio University
Speaker: Clive N. Svendsen – Cedars-Sinai
Plenary Speaker: Sharon Gerecht, PhD – Duke University
Plenary Speaker: Flora M. Vaccarino, MD (she/her/hers) – Yale University
Plenary Speaker: Toshiro Sato, MD, PhD – Keio University
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Showcase Presenter: Davide Marotta, PhD
Showcase Presenter: Kriti Kalpana, PhD
Showcase Presenter: Jessica Pham, PhD
Showcase Presenter: Pinar Mesci, PhD
Showcase Presenter: Livia Luz, PhD
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Alicia Bertolotti, PhD – Bionano
Showcase Presenter: Wanda Gerding, PhD – Ruhr-University of Bochum
Showcase Presenter: Jeanne Loring, PhD – Scripps Research Institute
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Kai Kretzschmar
Showcase Presenter: Robert Optiz
Showcase Presenter: Simon Sumer
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Sunghoon Jung – PBS Biotech Inc.
Showcase Presenter: Omokhowa Agbojo – PBS Biotech Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Nina Quiskamp – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Showcase Presenter: Philipp Kramer – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: William C. Skarnes – The Jackson Laboratory
Showcase Presenter: Camille Januel – Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco
Innovation Showcase
Co-Chair: Benedikt Berninger, PhD (he/him/his) – King's College London
Co-Chair: Viviane Tabar, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Concurrent Speaker: Tamar Harel Adar, PhD – Matricelf
Presenting Author: Edoardo Sozzi – Lund University
Presenting Author: Anne L. Plant, PhD – National Institute of Standards and Technology
Presenting Author: Ian Hay – Factor Bioscience Inc.
Presenting Author: Yoshiki Furukawa, PhD, MD – Juntendo University School of Medicine
Concurrent Speaker: Felicia Pagliuca, PhD – Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Clinical Applications
Co-Chair: Guo-li Ming, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
Co-Chair: Meritxell Huch, PhD (she/her/hers) – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics (MPI-CBG)
Concurrent Speaker: Gabsang Lee, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Presenting Author: Sara Nolbrant, PhD – University of California, San Francisco
Presenting Author: Heein Song – Leiden University Medical Center
Presenting Author: Kim B. Jensen, PhD – Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology – reNEW, University of Copenhagen
Presenting Author: Meiyan Wang – Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Concurrent Speaker: Sonia Gandhi, BMBCh PhD (she/her/hers) – The Francis Crick Institute and University College London
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Co-Chair: Barbara Treutlein, PhD (she/her/hers) – ETH Zürich
Co-Chair: Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, PhD (he/him/his) – Karolinska Institutet
Concurrent Speaker: Filipe Pereira, PhD (he/him/his) – Lund University
Presenting Author: Matias Ilmari Autio, PhD – Genome Institute of Singapore, A*Star & National University of Singapore
Presenting Author: Stepan Jerabek, PhD – Columbia University
Presenting Author: Camila Vazquez Echegaray, PhD – Lund University
Presenting Author: Gal Keshet (Cleitman Blackstien) – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Concurrent Speaker: Baris Tursun, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Hamburg
New Technologies
Co-Chair: Anne Grapin-Botton, PhD – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Co-Chair: Yasuhiro Takashima, MD, PhD – Kyoto University
Concurrent Speaker: Miguel Esteban, PhD – Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health
Presenting Author: Miguel Ramalho-Santos, PhD, MSc – Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and University of Toronto
Presenting Author: Moyra Lawrence, PhD – Kyoto University
Presenting Author: Maria Rostovskaya, PhD – Babraham Institute
Presenting Author: Caitlin MacCarthy, PhD – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
Concurrent Speaker: Katsuhiko Hayashi, PhD (he/him/his) – Osaka University
Pluripotency and Development
Co-Chair: Eugenia Piddini, PhD – University of Bristol
Co-Chair: Kyoko Miura, PhD (she/her/hers) – Kumamoto University
Concurrent Speaker: Bon-Kyoung Koo, PhD – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Austria and Center for Genome Engineering, Institute for Basic Science
Presenting Author: Shicong Xie, PhD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
Presenting Author: Kerstin Bartscherer – Osnabrueck University
Presenting Author: Hugo Vankelecom, PhD – KU Leuven
Presenting Author: Matthew Tierney, PhD (he/him/his) – The Rockefeller University
Concurrent Speaker: Kenneth Poss, PhD – Duke University Medical Center
Somatic Stem Cells, Cancer and Regeneration
Focus Session Speaker: Giulio Cossu, PhD – Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan
Focus Session Speaker: Stefano Benvenuti – Fondazione Telethon
Focus Session Speaker: Claire Booth, PhD – UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Focus Session Speaker: Daniel Besser, PhD – Berlin Institute of Health/German Stem Cell Network
Focus Session Speaker: Christopher Baum, MD – Berlin Institute of Health at Charité
Focus Session Speaker: Jacqueline Barry, PhD – Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult
Focus Session Speaker: Anna-Pia Papageorgiou – DG Research & Innovation, European Commission
Focus Session
Co-Chair: Lucia Selfa Aspiroz, PhD – European Commission Joint Research Centre
Co-Chair: Milena Mennecozzi, PhD – European Commission Joint Research Centre
Concurrent Speaker: Christine L. Mummery, PhD – Leiden University Medical Center
Concurrent Speaker: Martin F. Pera, PhD – The Jackson Laboratories
Concurrent Speaker: Glyn Stacey, PhD – National Institute for Biological Standards and Control
Concurrent Speaker: Mark R. Kotter, MD, PhD – bit.bio
Concurrent Speaker: Carlos A. Tristan, PhD – National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
Ethics, Policy and Standards
Showcase Presenter: Hsiu-Chuan Lin
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Suze Kundu – Digital Science
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Norman Liaw – Nuvisan ICB GmbH
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, PhD (he/him/his) – SmartCella
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Stefan Frank – BlueRock Therapeutics
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Christine Genge, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Giuliana Gagliardi, PhD – European Research Council Executive Agency
Exhibit Hall Theater
Showcase Presenter: Shalaka Chitale, PhD – CytoTronics Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Daylon James – Weill Cornell Medical College
Showcase Presenter: Arun Sharma – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Regenerative Medicine Institute
Innovation Showcase
Moderator: Kazuto Kato, PhD – Osaka University
Concurrent Speaker: Rosario Isasi, JD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Miami
Concurrent Speaker: Hongmei Wang, PhD – Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Concurrent Speaker: Søren Holm, PhD, MD, DrMed (he/him/his) – University of Manchester
Concurrent Speaker: Sandy Starr – Progress Educational Trust (PET)
Ethics, Policy and Standards
Co-Chair: Ganna Bilousova, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Co-Chair: Roger Barker, MRCP PhD – University of Cambridge
Concurrent Speaker: Viviane Tabar, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Presenting Author: Ruchi Sharma – NEI/NIH
Presenting Author: Lisa Ott de Bruin, MD, PhD – Leiden University Medical Centre
Presenting Author: Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Keio University
Presenting Author: Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD – Sana Biotechnology
Clinical Applications
Co-Chair: Jeffrey Beekman, PhD – University Medical Center Utrecht
Co-Chair: David Elliott – MCRI
Concurrent Speaker: Ryuji Morizane, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Massachusetts General Hospital
Presenting Author: Jubao Duan – University of Chicago/NorthShore University HelathSystem
Presenting Author: Carmen Menacho – Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Presenting Author: Gunnar Hargus, MD, PhD – Columbia University
Presenting Author: Giovanni Pietrogrande, PhD – The University of Queensland
Concurrent Speaker: Guo-li Ming, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Chair: Filipe Pereira, PhD (he/him/his) – Lund University
Concurrent Speaker: Miki Ebisuya, PhD (she/her/hers) – Physics of Life TU Dresden
Presenting Author: Jianping Fu, PhD – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Presenting Author: Connor C. Fausto – University of Southern California
Presenting Author: Sveva Bottini, MSci – University of Torino
Presenting Author: Suzan Stelloo, PhD – RIMLS, Radboud University
Concurrent Speaker: Ron Weiss, PhD – MIT
New Technologies
Co-Chair: Miguel Esteban, PhD – Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health
Co-Chair: Mo R. Ebrahimkhani, MD (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh
Concurrent Speaker: Anne Grapin-Botton, PhD – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Presenting Author: Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD – Harvard Medical School/Mass General Hospital
Presenting Author: Yanbo Yin – University of Cambridge
Presenting Author: Julia Batki, PhD – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Presenting Author: Juan R. Alvarez, PhD – University of Pennsylvania
Concurrent Speaker: Shahragim Tajbakhsh, PhD – Pasteur Institute
Pluripotency and Development
Co-Chair: Bon-Kyoung Koo, PhD – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Austria and Center for Genome Engineering, Institute for Basic Science
Concurrent Speaker: Elisa Laurenti, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
Presenting Author: Mark Schmitt, PhD – University of Marburg
Presenting Author: Swarnabh Bhattacharya, PhD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School
Presenting Author: Sandra Gomez Lopez – University College London
Presenting Author: Anupama Hemalatha, PhD – Yale School of Medicine
Concurrent Speaker: Peter W. Reddien, PhD – Whitehead Institute MIT
Somatic Stem Cells, Cancer and Regeneration
Focus Session Speaker: Jennifer Moody, PhD – Danaher
Focus Session Speaker: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD – WiCell Research Institute
Focus Session Speaker: Jacqueline Barry, PhD – Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult
Focus Session Speaker: Nissim Benvenisty, MD, PhD – The Hebrew University
Focus Session Speaker: Derek Hei, PhD – Kenai Therapeutics
Focus Session Speaker: Kapil Bharti, PhD – National Eye Institute; National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health
Focus Session
Co-Chair: Roger Barker, MRCP PhD – University of Cambridge
Co-Chair: Marinna Madrid, PhD – Cellino
Plenary Speaker: Catherine Priest, PhD (she/her/hers) – Neurona Therapeutics
Plenary Speaker: Robert P. Coppes, PhD (he/him/his) – University Medical Center Groningen
Plenary Speaker: Cristiana F. Pires, PharmD, PhD – Asgard Therapeutics
Speaker: Mikael Rydberg – Patient Advocate
Plenary Speaker: Michael Lai, PhD (he/him/his) – HeartWorks
Clinical Applications
Co-Chair: Malin Parmar, PhD – Lund University
Co-Chair: Agnete Kirkeby, PhD – Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine, reNEW, University of Copenhagen
Speaker: Valentina Greco, PhD – Yale School of Medicine, Genetics Department & Yale Stem Cell Center
Award Acceptance: Peter W. Andrews, BSc, DPhil, MBA – University of Sheffield
Award Acceptance: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD – WiCell Research Institute
Award Winner: Sergiu P. Pașca, PhD – Stanford University
Award Winner: Fiona M. Watt, DPhil FRS PhD – EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany
Keynote Speaker: Melissa H. Little, AC, PhD – Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW), Denmark, and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia