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  • Saturday, July 13, 2024
  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    IDENTIFYING THE ETHICAL COMPLEXITIES AND GOVERNANCE IMPLICATIONS FOR EMBRYO MODEL RESEARCH

    Panelist: Hongmei Wang, PhD – Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Panelist: Rosario Isasi, JD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Miami

    Panelist: Søren Holm, PhD, MD, DrMed (he/him/his) – University of Manchester

    Panelist: Sandy Starr – Progress Educational Trust (PET)

    Ethics, Policy and Standards

  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    UPDATES ON CLINICAL TRIALS

    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

    Clinical Applications

  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    THE USE OF STEM CELLS IN DISEASE MODELING II

    Concurrent Speaker: Ryuji Morizane, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Concurrent Speaker: Guo-li Ming, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania

    Presenting Author: Jubao Duan – University of Chicago/NorthShore University HelathSystem

    Presenting Author: Carmen Menacho – Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

    Presenting Author: Joel Blanchard, PhD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

    Presenting Author: Giovanni Pietrogrande, PhD – The University of Queensland

    Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery

  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    ENGINEERING APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENTAL AND STEM CELL BIOLOGY

    Concurrent Speaker: Miki Ebisuya, PhD (she/her/hers) – Physics of Life TU Dresden

    Concurrent Speaker: Ron Weiss, PhD – MIT

    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 – RIMLS, Radboud University

    New Technologies

  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    TISSUE AND ORGAN DEVELOPMENT

    Concurrent Speaker: Anne Grapin-Botton, PhD – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

    Concurrent Speaker: Shahragim Tajbakhsh, PhD – Pasteur Institute

    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

    Pluripotency and Development

  • 8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST
    CELLULAR PLASTICITY IN REGENERATION AND CANCER

    Concurrent Speaker: Elisa Laurenti, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge

    Concurrent Speaker: Peter W. Reddien, PhD – Whitehead Institute MIT

    Presenting Author: Mark Schmitt – 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

    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 – Clade 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

    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

    Award Winner: Sergiu Pașca, PhD – Stanford University

    Award Winner: Fiona M. Watt, DPhil FRS – EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany

    Keynote Speaker: Melissa Little, AC, PhD – Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW), Denmark, and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Australia