THE USE OF STEM CELLS IN DISEASE MODELING II

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Concurrent Speaker(s)

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  Guo-li Ming, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Neuroscience
  University of Pennsylvania, USA
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  Ryuji Morizane, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

  Medicine
  Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Presenting Author(s)

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  Jubao Duan

  Center for Psychiatric Genetics
  University of Chicago/NorthShore University HelathSystem, USA
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  Gunnar Hargus, MD, PhD

  Department of Pathology and Cell Biology
  Columbia University, United States
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  Carmen Menacho

  Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
  Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
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  Giovanni Pietrogrande, PhD

  Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
  The University of Queensland, Australia

Many stem cell models now exist for multiple genetic diseases. They are increasingly used for finding therapeutics. Examples of how stem cell models are being used for drug discovery will be shown in this session.

Presentations:

• ADVANCING DISEASE MODELING AND THERAPEUTICS: KIDNEY ORGANOIDS AND ORGANOID-ON-A-CHIP
  

  Concurrent Speaker: Ryuji Morizane, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Massachusetts General Hospital
• SCALED AND EFFICIENT DERIVATION OF FUNCTION ALLELES OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN HUMAN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS
  

  Presenting Author: Jubao Duan – University of Chicago/NorthShore University HelathSystem
• COMBINED SCREENING STRATEGIES IN INDUCED NEURONS AND MIDBRAIN ORGANOIDS UNVEIL REPURPOSABLE COMPOUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF LEIGH SYNDROME
  

  Presenting Author: Carmen Menacho – Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• NEURONS FROM PATIENTS WITH FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA RELEASE OSTEOPONTIN AND ELICIT AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE
  

  Presenting Author: Gunnar Hargus, MD, PhD – Columbia University
• A NEW IMMUNOCOMPETENT BRAIN ORGANOID MODEL TO STUDY DEMYELINATING DISEASES
  

  Presenting Author: Giovanni Pietrogrande, PhD – The University of Queensland
• MODELING GLIOBLASTOMA USING PATIENT-SPECIFIC TUMOR ORGANOIDS
  

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