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