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Thursday, Jun 12th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
STEM CELLS IN DRUG DISCOVERY: FROM CONCEPT TO APPLICATION
Location: Theater 1, L1
Co-Chair: Shuibing Chen, PhD – Weill Cornell Medical College
Co-Chair: Martin F. Pera, PhD – The Jackson Laboratories
Concurrent Speaker: Paul Pang, PhD – Greenstone Biosciences
Presenting Author: Yuting Fu, PhD – Westlake University
Presenting Author: Lotta E. Oikari, PhD (she/her/hers) – QIMR Berghofer
Presenting Author: Liam Allen Reed – University of Nottingham
Presenting Author: Luciani Renata Silveira de Carvalho, MD, PhD – University of São Paulo
Concurrent Speaker: Benedetta Artegiani, PhD and Delilah Hendriks, PhD (she/her/hers) – Princess Maxima Center
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
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Thursday, Jun 12th
8:35 AM – 8:55 AM HK Time
CLINICAL TRIAL IN A DISH WITH INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS FOR DRUG DISCOVERY AND PRECISION MEDICINE
Location: Theater 1, L1
Concurrent Speaker: Paul Pang, PhD – Greenstone Biosciences
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Thursday, Jun 12th
8:55 AM – 9:05 AM HK Time
SCALABLE GENERATION OF PATIENT-SPECIFIC 3D HUMAN NEUROMUSCULAR ORGANOIDS IDENTIFIES A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC CANDIDATE FOR AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
Location: Theater 1, L1
Presenting Author: Yuting Fu, PhD – Westlake University
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Thursday, Jun 12th
9:05 AM – 9:15 AM HK Time
COMBINING COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES AND DISEASE-SPECIFIC IPSC MODELS TO ACHIEVE DRUG REPURPOSING FOR CHILDHOOD DEMENTIA
Location: Theater 1, L1
Presenting Author: Lotta E. Oikari, PhD (she/her/hers) – QIMR Berghofer
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Thursday, Jun 12th
9:15 AM – 9:25 AM HK Time
MODELLING RESPIRATORY FIBROSIS USING INTEGRATED, MULTICELLULAR HIPSC-ALVEOLAR ORGANOIDS
Location: Theater 1, L1
Presenting Author: Liam Allen Reed – University of Nottingham
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Thursday, Jun 12th
9:25 AM – 9:35 AM HK Time
STRATEGIC IPSC AND HESC APPROACH TO GENERATE DIFFERENTIATED PITUITARY CELLS FOR DISEASE MODELING AND DRUG SCREENING FOR NEW THERAPY
Location: Theater 1, L1
Presenting Author: Luciani Renata Silveira de Carvalho, MD, PhD – University of São Paulo
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Thursday, Jun 12th
9:35 AM – 9:55 AM HK Time
ADVANCED HUMAN ORGANOID MODELS FOR DISSECTING TUMOR BIOLOGY
Location: Theater 1, L1
Concurrent Speaker: Benedetta Artegiani, PhD and Delilah Hendriks, PhD (she/her/hers) – Princess Maxima Center
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Thursday, Jun 12th
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
INSIGHTS INTO DISEASE MECHANISMS FROM STEM CELL RESEARCH
Location: Hall 3F, L3
Co-Chair: Jihwan Song – CHA University
Co-Chair: Akitsu Hotta, PhD – CiRA, Kyoto University
Concurrent Speaker: Valerie Gouon-Evans, PhD, PharmD (she/her/hers) – Boston University and Boston Medical Center
Presenting Author: Thierry VandenDriessche, PhD (he/him/his) – Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Presenting Author: Jeng-Fan Lo, PhD – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Presenting Author: Bruno Ghirotto, MSc – University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Presenting Author: Celine Bueds (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
Concurrent Speaker: Thomas Eschenhagen, MD (he/him/his) – University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
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Thursday, Jun 12th
2:05 PM – 2:25 PM HK Time
REGENERATION OF THE LIVER USING NUCLEOSIDE-MODIFIED MRNA ENCAPSULATED IN LIPID NANOPARTICLES -MRNA-LNP-
Location: Hall 3F, L3
Concurrent Speaker: Valerie Gouon-Evans, PhD, PharmD (she/her/hers) – Boston University and Boston Medical Center
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Thursday, Jun 12th
2:25 PM – 2:35 PM HK Time
CRISPR/Cas9-MEDIATED EXCISION OF EXPANDED “CTG” REPEATS AND CORRECTION OF SPLICEOPATHY IN MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY PATIENT-SPECIFIC iPSC-DERIVED MUSCLE AND CARDIAC CELLS IN VITRO AND DM1 MICE IN VIVO
Location: Hall 3F, L3
Presenting Author: Thierry VandenDriessche, PhD (he/him/his) – Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Thursday, Jun 12th
2:35 PM – 2:45 PM HK Time
REGIMEN DEVELOPMENT ON DNAJA3 HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY MEDIATED SARCOPENIC OBESITY AND CANCER CACHEXIA WITH IMBALANCED MITOCHONDRIAL HOMEOSTASIS AND LIPID METABOLISM
Location: Hall 3F, L3
Presenting Author: Jeng-Fan Lo, PhD – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Thursday, Jun 12th
2:45 PM – 2:55 PM HK Time
MODELING PARKINSON'S DISEASE INITIATION IN THE GUT: NOVEL INSIGHTS FROM IPSC-DERIVED ENTERIC NEURONAL LINEAGES
Location: Hall 3F, L3
Presenting Author: Bruno Ghirotto, MSc – University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Thursday, Jun 12th
2:55 PM – 3:05 PM HK Time
APPLYING HUMAN ENDOMETRIAL ORGANOID AND IMPLANTATION MODELS TO DECIPHER UNDERLYING CAUSES OF ENDOMETRIOSIS-ASSOCIATED INFERTILITY
Location: Hall 3F, L3
Presenting Author: Celine Bueds (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Thursday, Jun 12th
3:05 PM – 3:25 PM HK Time
ENGINEERED HEART TISSUE FOR DISEASE MODELING AND EFFICACY TESTING
Location: Hall 3F, L3
Concurrent Speaker: Thomas Eschenhagen, MD (he/him/his) – University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
STEM CELLS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Location: Hall A, L1
Co-Chair: Stuart Forbes, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – The University of Edinburgh
Co-Chair: Su-Yi Tsai – National Taiwan University
Concurrent Speaker: Sina Bartfeld, PhD – Technische Universität Berlin
Presenting Author: Amos Chungwon Lee, PhD – Meteor Biotech
Presenting Author: Jie ZHOU, PhD – The University of Hong Kong
Presenting Author: Jose Agustin Cota Coronado, PhD – Monash University
Presenting Author: Ying Xi, PhD (she/her/hers) – ShanghaiTech University, School of Life Science & Technology
Concurrent Speaker: Kazuo Takayama, PhD (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
8:35 AM – 8:55 AM HK Time
INFECTION, INFLAMMATION AND CANCER IN THE GUT - ORGANOIDS AS MODEL
Location: Hall A, L1
Concurrent Speaker: Sina Bartfeld, PhD – Technische Universität Berlin
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
8:55 AM – 9:05 AM HK Time
SPATIAL EPITRANSCRIPTOMICS UNVEILS A-TO-I RNA EDITING DYNAMICS AND HOST-VIRUS INTERACTIONS IN ZIKA VIRUS-INFECTED BRAIN ORGANOIDS
Location: Hall A, L1
Presenting Author: Amos Chungwon Lee, PhD – Meteor Biotech
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
9:05 AM – 9:15 AM HK Time
HUMAN RESPIRATORY ORGANOIDS SUSTAINED PROPAGATION OF PREVIOUSLY UNCULTIVABLE HUMAN RHINOVIRUSES AND ELUCIDATION OF VIRUS-HOST INTERACTION
Location: Hall A, L1
Presenting Author: Jie ZHOU, PhD – The University of Hong Kong
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
9:15 AM – 9:25 AM HK Time
LINKING PRENATAL INFLAMMATION TO SYNAPTIC DYSFUNCTION IN PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
Location: Hall A, L1
Presenting Author: Jose Agustin Cota Coronado, PhD – Monash University
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
9:25 AM – 9:35 AM HK Time
DYSPLASTIC EPITHELIAL REPAIR DRIVES THE TISSUE RESIDENCE OF LYMPHOCYTES TO IMPAIR ALVEOLAR REGENERATION
Location: Hall A, L1
Presenting Author: Ying Xi, PhD (she/her/hers) – ShanghaiTech University, School of Life Science & Technology
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
9:35 AM – 9:55 AM HK Time
RESEARCH FOR VIRAL RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS USING ORGANOIDS AND ORGAN-ON-A-CHIP
Location: Hall A, L1
Concurrent Speaker: Kazuo Takayama, PhD (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
STEM CELL MODELS OF TISSUE INJURY AND REPAIR
Location: Theater 2, L1
Co-Chair: Clive N. Svendsen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute
Co-Chair: Malin Parmar, PhD (she/her/hers) – Lund University
Concurrent Speaker: Sumru Bayin, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Presenting Author: DI PAN, Msc (he/him/his) – Australian National University
Presenting Author: Ana Lilia Serna-Valverde, MD, PhD – University of Nottingham
Presenting Author: Julien Muffat, Ph.D. – University of Toronto/The Hospital for Sick Children
Presenting Author: Lyandysha Zholudeva, PhD – Gladstone Institutes
Concurrent Speaker: Patrick C.H Hsieh, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
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Friday, Jun 13th
2:05 PM – 2:25 PM HK Time
UNDERSTANDING AND HARNESSING THE REGENERATIVE POTENTIAL OF THE BRAIN
Location: Theater 2, L1
Concurrent Speaker: Sumru Bayin, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
2:25 PM – 2:35 PM HK Time
Decoding the Regenerative Landscape: Insights from Sponge Single-Cell Transcriptomics
Location: Theater 2, L1
Presenting Author: DI PAN, Msc (he/him/his) – Australian National University
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
2:35 PM – 2:45 PM HK Time
IN VITRO MODELLING OF RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS IN IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS USING IMMUNE-COMPETENT MULTI-TISSUE HIPSC-DERIVED LUNG ORGANOIDS
Location: Theater 2, L1
Presenting Author: Ana Lilia Serna-Valverde, MD, PhD – University of Nottingham
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
2:45 PM – 2:55 PM HK Time
INVESTIGATING THE CROSSTALK BETWEEN MICROGLIA AND RELEVANT CELLULAR NICHES USING HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL DERIVED CO-CULTURES AND ORGANOIDS
Location: Theater 2, L1
Presenting Author: Julien Muffat, Ph.D. – University of Toronto/The Hospital for Sick Children
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
2:55 PM – 3:05 PM HK Time
HUMAN SPINAL INTERNEURONS REPAIR THE INJURED SPINAL CORD THROUGH SYNAPTIC INTEGRATION
Location: Theater 2, L1
Presenting Author: Lyandysha Zholudeva, PhD – Gladstone Institutes
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Friday, Jun 13th
3:05 PM – 3:25 PM HK Time
HUMAN iPSCs IN Action: REVOLUTIONIZING DRUD SAFETY AND HEART DISEASE TREATMENT
Location: Theater 2, L1
Concurrent Speaker: Patrick C.H Hsieh, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery