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  • 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