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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Showcase Presenter: Kai Kretzschmar
Showcase Presenter: Robert Optiz
Showcase Presenter: Simon Sumer
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Sunghoon Jung – PBS Biotech Inc.
Showcase Presenter: Omokhowa Agbojo – PBS Biotech Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Nina Quiskamp – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Showcase Presenter: Philipp Kramer – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: William C. Skarnes – The Jackson Laboratory
Showcase Presenter: Camille Januel – Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco
Innovation Showcase
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Showcase Presenter: Hsiu-Chuan Lin
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Suze Kundu – Digital Science
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Norman Liaw – Nuvisan ICB GmbH
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, PhD (he/him/his) – SmartCella
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Stefan Frank – BlueRock Therapeutics
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Christine Genge, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.
Exhibit Hall Theater
Theater Speaker: Giuliana Gagliardi, PhD – European Research Council Executive Agency
Exhibit Hall Theater
Showcase Presenter: Shalaka Chitale, PhD – CytoTronics Inc.
Innovation Showcase
Showcase Presenter: Daylon James – Weill Cornell Medical College
Showcase Presenter: Arun Sharma – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Regenerative Medicine Institute
Innovation Showcase