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  • Wednesday, July 10, 2024
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    IMAGING STEM CELL SYSTEMS ACROSS SCALES
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CEST
    EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION IN THE DISH
  • 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM CEST
    PLENARY I: PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM
    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
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    BLUEROCK CLINICAL TRIALS WORKSHOP SPECIAL SESSION: ADVANCES IN THE TREATMENT OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE: THE POSSIBILITIES OF CELL THERAPIES
    Presenter: David Pedrosa – Universitätsklinikum Giessen und Marburg, Standort Marburg, Baldingerstraße
    Presenter: Viviane Tabar, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • 12:00 PM – 12:25 PM CEST
    ISSCR STANDARDS IN ACTION: ADVANCEMENTS IN CELL LINE GENERATION AND ORGANOID INNOVATION
    Showcase Presenter: Andrew Gaffney – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    CuSTOMIZING ORGANOIDS FOR DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
    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
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    TRANSFORMING HiPSC DIFFERENTIATION BY INCREASING EFFICIENCY AND FIDELITY FOR NPCS, HSCS, AND LPCS
    Showcase Presenter: Jessica Hartman – Cell Microsystems
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    STEM CELLS IN LOW EARTH ORBIT: THE NEXT FRONTIER
    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
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    THE FUTURE OF CELL CULTURE: EMPOWERING RESEARCHERS TO MAKE KEY DECISIONS SOONER, ACHIEVE MILESTONES FASTER, AND GET TO CLINIC EARLIER—WITH LOWER ATTRITION RATES
    Showcase Presenter: Felix Spira – Molecular Devices
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    GENETIC WHACK-A-MOLE: BATTLING INSTABILITIES IN iPSCS
    Showcase Presenter: Brian Hawkins – Pluristyx, Inc.
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:25 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    IMPROVING THE GENETIC STABILITY OF SINGLE-CELL-PASSAGED HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL CULTURES USING eTeSR™
    Showcase Presenter: Adam Hirst – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
    Innovation Showcase
  • 1:30 PM – 3:35 PM CEST
    PLENARY II: NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO ENGINEER AND PHENOTYPE STEM CELL SYSTEMS
    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
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CEST
    TRANSLATION OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH: FROM NICE TO HAVE TO CLINICAL IMPERATIVE
    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
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CEST
    HARVESTING STEM CELL INNOVATION: THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACADEMIA AND INDUSTRY IN CULTIVATED MEAT DEVELOPMENT
    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
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CEST
    FRONTIERS IN EPIGENETIC CONTROL FOR ENHANCED STEM CELL THERAPIES
    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
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CEST
    EXPLORING BIOPHYSICAL CUES: UNRAVELING MECHANOTRANSDUCTION IN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL DIRECTED DIFFERENTIATION
    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
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CEST
    CELL POLARITY IN ORGANOID-DERIVED MODELS OF HEALTH AND DISEASE
    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
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CEST
    TOOLS FOR BASIC AND APPLIED STEM CELL BIOLOGY
    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
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CEST
    EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION IN THE DISH
    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
  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM CEST
    CAREER PLURIPOTENCY: PIONEERING PATHS IN ACADEMIC AND NON-ACADEMIC SECTORS
    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
  • 5:45 PM – 7:30 PM CEST
    OPENING RECEPTION
  • 5:45 PM – 7:45 PM CEST
    POSTER SESSIONS and EXHIBIT HALL EVENTS
  • 5:45 PM – 7:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 1: COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
  • 5:45 PM – 7:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 2: STUDENT AND POST DOC NETWORKING
  • 5:45 PM – 7:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 3: RENEW ECR NETWORKING HUB
  • 5:45 PM – 7:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 1: INDUSTRY SCIENTISTS NETWORKING
  • 5:45 PM – 7:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 2: UK STEM CELL NETWORK
  • 5:45 PM – 7:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 3: STEM CELLS AND CANCER
  • 5:40 PM – 5:55 PM CEST
    HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL (HPSC) PLATFORMS FOR TARGET DISCOVERY AND THERAPEUTIC DEVELOPMENT
    Theater Speaker: Bilada Bilican, PhD – AstraZaneca
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 6:00 PM – 6:15 PM CEST
    STREAMLINE YOUR RESEARCH: THE ADVANTAGES OF OUR COMPREHENSIVE GENOMIC INTEGRITY TESTING, CELL AUTHENTICATION, AND MYCOPLASMA DETECTION SOLUTIONS
    Theater Speaker: Reda Zenagui – Stem Genomics
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 6:20 PM – 6:35 PM CEST
    ANALYSIS, IMAGING, AND SORTING OF SPHEROIDS, ORGANOIDS, AND 3D CELL CLUSTERS ON THE COPAS VISION
    Theater Speaker: Rock Pulak – Union Biometrica, Inc
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 6:40 PM – 6:55 PM CEST
    FROM R&D TO MANUFACTURING: THE CELL AS A PRODUCT
    Theater Speaker: Philipp Nold – Eppendorf SE
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 7:00 PM – 7:15 PM CEST
    INNOVATIVE scFAST-seq TECHNOLOGY: ACCESSING ANALYSIS FROM MUTATION, REGULATION TO EXPRESSION
    Theater Speaker: Irene Wei
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 7:20 PM – 7:35 PM CEST
    BIOMANUFACTURING IN LOW EARTH ORBIT: ACCELERATING BREAKTHROUGHS IN REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
    Theater Speaker: Pinar Mesci, PhD
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • Thursday, July 11, 2024
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    BEST PRACTICES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSC-DERIVED CELLULAR THERAPIES
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    IMAGING STEM CELL SYSTEMS ACROSS SCALES
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 PM CEST
    BEST PRACTICES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSC-DERIVED CELLULAR THERAPIES
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    EMERGING NEW THERAPIES
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    ADVANCING IN VITRO MODELS
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    IMAGING STEM CELL SYSTEMS ACROSS SCALES
    Co-Chair: Miki Ebisuya, PhD (she/her/hers) – Physics of Life TU Dresden
    Co-Chair: Ron Weiss, PhD – MIT
    Concurrent Speaker: 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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    INTEGRATED STEM CELL MODELS OF EARLY EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    AGING AND METABOLIC REGULATION OF TISSUE STEM CELLS
    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
    Somatic Stem Cells, Cancer and Regeneration
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    STRATEGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALLOGENIC iPSC-DERIVED CELL THERAPIES
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    BEST PRACTICES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSC-DERIVED CELLULAR THERAPIES
    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
  • 10:00 AM – 11:45 AM CEST
    PLENARY III: EXPLORING THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DEVELOPMENT USING STEM CELLS
    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
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM CEST
    CEPT COCKTAIL - A NEW CHEMICAL PLATFORM FOR STRESS-FREE AND SAFE CULTURE OF iPSCS
    Showcase Presenter: Ilyas Singeç – FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc.
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    UNLOCKING THE POWER OF DETERMINISTIC CELL PROGRAMMING IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND DRUG DISCOVERY
    Showcase Presenter: Roger Pedersen – Stanford University
    Showcase Presenter: Matthias Pawlowski – University of Münster
    Showcase Presenter: Sejla Salic-Hainzl – bit.bio Vienna
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    STEM CELLS: FROM RESEARCH TO MANUFACTURING AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
    Showcase Presenter: Lucienne Vonk – Xintela
    Showcase Presenter: Nicolas Andre – Corning Life Sciences
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF iPSC-DERIVED IN VITRO MODELS IN DISEASE MODELLING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    Showcase Presenter: Feng Guo – Indiana University Bloomington
    Showcase Presenter: Marian Hruska-Plochan – University of Zurich
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    INNOVATION ACROSS PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL RESEARCH: FROM REPROGRAMMING TO MANUFACTURING AND ORGANOID IMAGING
    Showcase Presenter: Sebastian Knöbel – Miltenyi Biotec
    Showcase Presenter: Stephan Werk – Miltenyi Biotec
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    USING HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL-DERIVED NEURAL ORGANOIDS FOR DISEASE MODELING
    Showcase Presenter: Jinyuan Wang, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    STEM CELLS AND 3D: EXPANSION AND UPSCALING
    Showcase Presenter: Michael Laurence Akenhead, PhD – Thermo Fisher Scientific
    Showcase Presenter: Juda-El Sam – Scinus Cell Expansion Netherlands BV
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS FOR ACCELERATING DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT IN ATMPS AND BIOPHARMA
    Showcase Presenter: Gonçalo Regalo – FUJIFILM PORTUGAL S.A.
    Innovation Showcase
  • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST
    PLENARY IV: TISSUE ARCHITECTURE AND STEM CELL FUNCTION IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
    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
  • 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM CEST
    EXHIBIT HALL PUB CRAWL
  • 3:40 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    POSTER SESSIONS and EXHIBIT HALL EVENTS
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 1: GET-TOGETHER GERMAN STEM CELL NETWORK
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 2: EARLY CAREER PIs/GROUP LEADERS NETWORKING
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 3: STEM CELLS FOR HIRSCHSPRUNG'S DISEASE
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 1: MEET THE EDITORS OF STEM CELL REPORTS
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 2: POLICY, ETHICS, AND REGULATORY ISSUES
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 3: LGBTQIA+ STEM CELL NETWORKING
  • 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM CEST
    MOVING iPSC BASED CGT INTO A GMP SETTING
    Theater Speaker: Lise Munsie, PhD – CCRM
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM CEST
    UNVEILING VERLO: THE FUTURE OF IMAGE-GUIDED CELL SORTING
    Theater Speaker: Rea Dabelic – NanoCellect Biomedical, Inc.
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM CEST
    SCALABLE HUMAN IPSC-TO-3D BIOPRINTING PIPELINE: SUCCESSFUL LARGE-SCALE PRODUCTION USING AUTOMATED BIOREACTOR SYSTEMS
    Theater Speaker: Maya Fuerstenau-Sharp – Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbH
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 4:40 PM – 4:55 PM CEST
    CRACKING THE CODE: ACCELERATED DIRECTED DIFFERENTIATION OF HIGH PURITY NEURONS AND NEURAL CREST DERIVATIVES FROM ANY HIPSC LINE
    Theater Speaker: Patrick Walsh – Anatomic Incorporated
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM CEST
    STREAMLINING CELL THERAPY MANUFACTURING WITH ACROBIOSYSTEMS AS YOUR GMP RAW MATERIAL SUPPLIER
    Theater Speaker: Anil Kumar
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 5:20 PM – 5:35 PM CEST
    SOLUTIONS FOR SINGLE CELL AND ORGANOID SORTING AND ISOLATION
    Theater Speaker: Fabiana Izaguirre
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM CEST
    REVOLUTIONIZING BRAIN ORGANOID FUNCTIONAL SCREENING: UNVEILING THE POWER OF 3D MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY FOR ENHANCED LIFE SCIENCES INSIGHTS
    Showcase Presenter: Sercan Deniz – 3Brain AG
    Innovation Showcase
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM CEST
    Biolaminin® TECHNOLOGY: SUPPORTING STANDARDIZATION FOR TRANSLATIONAL SUCCESS
    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
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM CEST
    ENABLING iPSC INNOVATION: EXPLORE EBiSC'S CELLS, SCIENCE, AND DATA
    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
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM CEST
    STEM CELLS FOR SPECIES DE-EXTINCTION AND CONSERVATION
    Showcase Presenter: Evan Appleton – Colossal Biosciences
    Innovation Showcase
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM CEST
    SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE-BASED GROWTH FACTOR ALTERNATIVE AND THEIR APPLICATION
    Showcase Presenter: Robert Brownlee – PeptiGrowth Inc.
    Innovation Showcase
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM CEST
    EMPOWERING CANCER STUDIES: REVOLUTIONIZING CANCER RESEARCH WITH A UNIVERSAL APPROACH TO ISOLATING STEM CELLS FROM TUMOR BIOPSIES
    Showcase Presenter: Alexander Trampe – PromoCell GmbH
    Innovation Showcase
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM CEST
    ADVANCING CELL THERAPIES BY HARNESSING THE POWER OF STEM CELL BIOLOGY & BIOPHYSICS USING THE C-Stem™ TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
    Showcase Presenter: Maxime Feyeux – TreeFrog Therapeutics
    Showcase Presenter: Joffrey Mianne – TreeFrog Therapeutics
    Showcase Presenter: Clément Rieu – TreeFrog Therapeutics
    Innovation Showcase
  • Friday, July 12, 2024
  • 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM CEST
    PLENARY V: ORGANOID MODELS OF DISEASE
  • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST
    THE USE OF STEM CELLS IN DISEASE MODELING I
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    GENE THERAPIES
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    STEM CELLS FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    INTEGRATIVE SINGLE CELL OMICS
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    NON-INTEGRATED STEM CELL MODELS OF EARLY EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    MECHANOBIOLOGY OF STEM CELLS AND TISSUES
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    PROGRESSING CELL THERAPIES TO CLINIC: UNDERSTANDING THE CELLULAR DRUG PRODUCT
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    REALIZING THE POTENTIAL OF PSC-DERIVED THERAPIES: FROM RESEARCH TO CLINICAL TRANSLATION
    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
  • 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM CEST
    PLENARY V: ORGANOID MODELS OF DISEASE
    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
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM CEST
    CAREER PATHS IN STEM CELLS AND LEO
    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
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    HIGH-RESOLUTION GENOME INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT IN STEM CELL THERAPY DEVELOPMENT WITH OPTICAL GENOME MAPPING
    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
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    ORGANOIDS: GROW THEM – GLOW THEM. INCREASE YOUR CELL CULTURE CONSISTENCY AND GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR PRECIOUS SAMPLES WITH BIO-TECHNE REAGENTS
    Showcase Presenter: Kai Kretzschmar
    Showcase Presenter: Robert Optiz
    Showcase Presenter: Simon Sumer
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    KEY REQUIREMENTS FOR EFFICIENT AND LINEAR SCALE-UP OF SHEAR SENSITIVE CELL THERAPY PRODUCTS USING THE VERTICAL-WHEEL BIOREACTOR
    Showcase Presenter: Sunghoon Jung – PBS Biotech Inc.
    Showcase Presenter: Omokhowa Agbojo – PBS Biotech Inc.
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    THINKING OUTSIDE THE DOME: VERSATILE CULTURE METHODS FROM TISSUE-SPECIFIC STEM CELLS
    Showcase Presenter: Nina Quiskamp – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
    Showcase Presenter: Philipp Kramer – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
    Innovation Showcase
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CEST
    LARGE SCALE ENGINEERING EFFORTS IN HUMAN iPSCs TO DECIPHER MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CHANGES IN DISEASE
    Showcase Presenter: William C. Skarnes – The Jackson Laboratory
    Showcase Presenter: Camille Januel – Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco
    Innovation Showcase
  • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST
    PSC-BASED CELL THERAPIES
    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
  • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST
    THE USE OF STEM CELLS IN DISEASE MODELING I
    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
  • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST
    NOVEL APPROACHES TO PROGRAM AND PERTURB CELL FATE
    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
  • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST
    TOTIPOTENCY AND GERM CELL DEVELOPMENT
    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
  • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST
    MAINTENANCE AND REGENERATION OF TISSUE ARCHITECTURE
    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
  • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST
    STRATEGIES FOR GENE AND CELL-BASED THERAPIES IN EUROPE
    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
  • 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM CEST
    USE OF STANDARDS FOR STEM CELLS IN NON-CLINICAL RESEARCH
    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
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    POSTER SESSIONS and EXHIBIT HALL EVENTS
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 1: EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL (ERC) INFORMATION MEET-UP
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 2: STEM CELL PODCAST
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 3: CRYOPRESERVATION OF CELL AND GENE THERAPIES
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 1: SELECTION AND TESTING OF CLINICAL-USE-QUALITY iPSCs
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 2: SUCCESS SYNERGY: NAVIGATING ACADEMIA & INDUSTRY
  • 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM CEST
    MEET-UP HUB 3: HARNESSING STEM CELLS FOR NEXT-GENERATION IMMUNOTHERAPY
  • 3:40 PM – 3:55 PM CEST
    PROFILING AND PROGRAMMING IN VITRO HUMAN NEURONAL DIVERSITY AT SINGLE-CELL RESOLUTION
    Showcase Presenter: Hsiu-Chuan Lin
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM CEST
    BEYOND ACADEMIA - SHOWCASING SCIENCE CAREERS WITH SCISMIC
    Theater Speaker: Suze Kundu – Digital Science
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 4:20 PM – 4:35 PM CEST
    NUVISAN - THE SCIENCE CRO
    Theater Speaker: Norman Liaw – Nuvisan ICB GmbH
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 4:40 PM – 4:55 PM CEST
    PIONEERING THE FUTURE OF ADVANCED THERAPY AND TARGETED DELIVERY
    Theater Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, PhD (he/him/his) – SmartCella
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM CEST
    CAREER EXPLORATION WITH BLUEROCK THERAPUTICS
    Theater Speaker: Stefan Frank – BlueRock Therapeutics
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 5:17 PM – 5:27 PM CEST
    CAREER EXPLORATION WITH STEMCELL TECHNOLOGIES
    Theater Speaker: Christine Genge, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 5:29 PM – 5:34 PM CEST
    CAREER EXPLORATION WITH THE ERC EXECUTIVE AGENCY
    Theater Speaker: Giuliana Gagliardi, PhD – European Research Council Executive Agency
    Exhibit Hall Theater
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM CEST
    CYTOTRONICS PIXEL: ELECTRICAL IMAGING BASED LIVE CELL CHARACTERIZATION FROM STEM CELLS TO PHENOTYPIC DISEASE MODELS
    Showcase Presenter: Shalaka Chitale, PhD – CytoTronics Inc.
    Innovation Showcase
  • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CEST
    STEM CELL RESEARCH IN SPACE
    Showcase Presenter: Daylon James – Weill Cornell Medical College
    Showcase Presenter: Arun Sharma – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Regenerative Medicine Institute
    Innovation Showcase
  • Saturday, July 13, 2024
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    FUNCTION, POTENTIAL AND MORAL STATUS - HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL MODELS AS TECHNOBIOLOGICAL ARTEFACTS
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    THE USE OF STEM CELLS IN DISEASE MODELING II

    Co-Chair: Jeffrey Beekman, PhD – University Medical Center Utrecht

    Co-Chair: David Elliott – MCRI

    Concurrent Speaker: Ryuji Morizane, MD, PhD – 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 – University of Pennsylvania

  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    IDENTIFYING THE ETHICAL COMPLEXITIES AND GOVERNANCE IMPLICATIONS FOR EMBRYO MODEL RESEARCH
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    UPDATES ON CLINICAL TRIALS
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    THE USE OF STEM CELLS IN DISEASE MODELING II
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    ENGINEERING APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENTAL AND STEM CELL BIOLOGY
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    TISSUE AND ORGAN DEVELOPMENT
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    CELLULAR PLASTICITY IN REGENERATION AND CANCER
    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
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    INSIGHTS FROM REGULATORS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE ISSCR’S REGULATORY LIAISON MEETINGS
    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
  • 10:00 AM – 11:35 AM CEST
    PLENARY VI: THE CLINICAL REALITY AND PROMISE OF CELL AND GENE THERAPIES
    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
  • 1:30 PM – 3:35 PM CEST
    PLENARY VII: AWARDS & KEYNOTE SESSION
    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