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  • 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