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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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Showcase Presenter: Alicia Bertolotti, PhD – Bionano

Showcase Presenter: Wanda Gerding, PhD – Ruhr-University of Bochum

Showcase Presenter: Jeanne Loring, PhD – Scripps Research Institute

Showcase Presenter: Kai Kretzschmar

Showcase Presenter: Robert Optiz

Showcase Presenter: Simon Sumer

Showcase Presenter: Sunghoon Jung – PBS Biotech Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Omokhowa Agbojo – PBS Biotech Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Nina Quiskamp – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Philipp Kramer – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.

Showcase Presenter: William C. Skarnes – The Jackson Laboratory

Showcase Presenter: Camille Januel – Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Showcase Presenter: Hsiu-Chuan Lin

Theater Speaker: Suze Kundu – Digital Science

Theater Speaker: Norman Liaw – Nuvisan ICB GmbH

Theater Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, PhD (he/him/his) – SmartCella

Theater Speaker: Stefan Frank – BlueRock Therapeutics

Theater Speaker: Christine Genge, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.

Theater Speaker: Giuliana Gagliardi, PhD – European Research Council Executive Agency

Showcase Presenter: Shalaka Chitale, PhD – CytoTronics Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Daylon James – Weill Cornell Medical College

Showcase Presenter: Arun Sharma – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Regenerative Medicine Institute