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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    BEST PRACTICES FOR THE TRANSLATION OF PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL-DERIVED THERAPIES
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Chair: Jacqueline Barry, PhD – Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult
    Speaker: Jack Mosher, PhD (he/him/his) – International Society for Stem Cell Research
    Speaker: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD (she/her/hers) – WiCell Research Institute
    Speaker: Jung-Hyun Kim, PhD – Ajou University
    Speaker: Glyn Stacey, PhD – International Stem Cell and Banking Initiative
    Speaker: Dhruv Sareen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    Speaker: John Rasko – Cynata Therapeutics
    Speaker: Deborah Hursh, PhD (she/her/hers) – Hursh Consulting
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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    8:40 AM - 8:55 AM HK Time
    STARTING THE PROCESS: SELECTION AND BANKING
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Speaker: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD (she/her/hers) – WiCell Research Institute
    Speaker: Jung-Hyun Kim, PhD – Ajou University
    Speaker: Glyn Stacey, PhD – International Stem Cell and Banking Initiative
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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    8:55 AM - 9:10 AM HK Time
    MATERIALS, DEVICES, AND MANUFACTURING
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Speaker: Dhruv Sareen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:10 AM - 9:25 AM HK Time
    PRODUCT TESTING: PRECLINICAL DEVELOPMENT AND CLINICAL TRIALS
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Speaker: John Rasko – Cynata Therapeutics
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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    9:25 AM - 9:40 AM HK Time
    REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Speaker: Deborah Hursh, PhD (she/her/hers) – Hursh Consulting
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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    EMERGING ETHICAL ISSUES WITH NEURAL ORGANOIDS
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Chair: Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA – Johns Hopkins University
    Concurrent Speaker: Sergiu P. Pașca, PhD – Stanford University
    Concurrent Speaker: Julian Savulescu – National University of Singapore
    Commentator: Paola Arlotta, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Commentator: Kazuto Kato, PhD (he/him/his) – The University of Osaka
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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    ADVANCES IN NEURAL ORGANOIDS, ASSEMBLOIDS AND THEIR TRANSPLANTATION: SCIENTIFIC FRONTIERS AND EMERGING ETHICAL CHALLENGES
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Concurrent Speaker: Sergiu P. Pașca, PhD – Stanford University
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  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    ETHICS AND REGULATION OF BRAIN ORGANOID RESEARCH
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Concurrent Speaker: Julian Savulescu – National University of Singapore
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    MANUFACTURING WITH COMMERCIALIZATION IN MIND
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Chair: Ivana Barbaric, DPhil – The University of Sheffield
    Chair: Jennifer Moody, PhD – Danaher
    Concurrent Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, Eng PhD (he/him/his) – SmartCella
    Concurrent Speaker: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD (she/her/hers) – WiCell Research Institute
    Concurrent Speaker: Stefan Irion, MD (he/him/his) – BlueRock Therapeutics
    Concurrent Speaker: Lijian Hui, PhD – Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, CAS
    Concurrent Speaker: Ana Hidalgo-Simon, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    CELL IDENTITY CONVERSION: LIVER REGENERATION AND CELL THERAPY
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Concurrent Speaker: Lijian Hui, PhD – Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, CAS
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    INCREASING TRANSLATION BY INBUILT REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Concurrent Speaker: Ana Hidalgo-Simon, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    MANUFACTURING OF STEM CELL THERAPIES WITH COMMERCIALISATION IN MIND
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Concurrent Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, Eng PhD (he/him/his) – SmartCella
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    QC AND CQAs: QUALITY ASSESSMENT FOR PSC CELL BANKS TODAY AND A VISION FOR THE FUTURE
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Concurrent Speaker: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD (she/her/hers) – WiCell Research Institute
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    SCALING MOUNT COMMERCIAL: NAVIGATING THE PEAKS OF MANUFACTURING COMPARABILITY
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Concurrent Speaker: Stefan Irion, MD (he/him/his) – BlueRock Therapeutics
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    REGULATORY FRAGMENTATION AND UNPROVEN STEM CELL THERAPIES: BEYOND HARMONIZATION
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Moderator: Misao Fujita, PhD – Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University
    Moderator: Douglas Sipp – Riken Center for Biosystems Dynamics, Japan
    Concurrent Speaker: Yaojin Peng, PhD (he/him/his) – Institution of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Concurrent Speaker: Ji hyeon Ju – College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea
    Concurrent Speaker: Marlena Pecyna, PhD, habilitation (she/her/hers) – Jagiellonian University
    Concurrent Speaker: Jaime Imitola, MD (he/him/his) – Deparment of Neurology University of Connecticut
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:05 PM - 2:25 PM HK Time
    JUDICIAL VARIABILITY IN THE REGULATION OF THE STEM CELL INDUSTRY IN CHINA
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Concurrent Speaker: Yaojin Peng, PhD (he/him/his) – Institution of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:25 PM - 2:45 PM HK Time
    REGULATORY DISRUPTION AND UNPROVEN STEM CELL THERAPIES IN EAST ASIA: BEYOND HARMONY
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Concurrent Speaker: Ji hyeon Ju – College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    2:45 PM - 3:05 PM HK Time
    REGULATORY FRAGMENTATION AND UNPROVEN STEM CELL THERAPIES: BEYOND HARMONIZATION - EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Concurrent Speaker: Marlena Pecyna, PhD, habilitation (she/her/hers) – Jagiellonian University
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  • Friday, Jun 13th
    3:05 PM - 3:25 PM HK Time
    REGULATORY FRAGMENTATION AND UNPROVEN STEM CELL THERAPIES: NOVEL AWARENESS AND EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES
    Location: Hall 3G, L3
    Concurrent Speaker: Jaime Imitola, MD (he/him/his) – Deparment of Neurology University of Connecticut
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