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  • Wednesday, June 11, 2025
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    CELLULAR AGRICULTURE: HARNESSING STEM CELLS FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD INNOVATION (Convention Hall A, L1)
    Science Spotlight Moderator: Danai Georgiadou, PhD – Bioprocessing Technology Institute, A*STAR
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Jianyong Han, PhD (he/him/his) – China Agricultural University
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Cai Linton, MEng Molecular Bioengineering (he/him/his) – Multus Biotechnology Limited
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Deepika Rajesh, PhD – Roslin Technologies Limited
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Shigeki Sugli, PhD (he/him/his) – Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI), A*STAR
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Stephan Alfaro (he/him/his) – UPSIDE Foods
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Zi Ying Tan, PhD – M3TRIQ
    Science Spotlights
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMBINING CELL TRANSPLANTATION WITH NEUROMODULATION FOR SPINAL CORD INJURY (Theater 2, L1)
    Science Spotlight Moderator: Matthew Dominguez (he/him/his) – Gladstone Institutes
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Nisha Iyer, PhD (she/her/hers) – Tufts University
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Lyandysha Zholudeva, PhD – Gladstone Institutes
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Maria del Mar Sánchez Martin, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Standford
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Keio University
    Science Spotlights
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    IMMUNOENGINEERING - FROM THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO ITS ENGINEERING NEXT-GENERATION THERAPY (Convention Hall B, L1)
    Science Spotlight Moderator: Chloe Kan – The University of Hong Kong
    Science Spotlight Moderator: Rio Sugimura, MD, PhD – The University of Hong Kong
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Carlos Filipe Pereira, PhD – Lund University
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Christine A. Wells – University of Melbourne
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Bin Zhou, MD, PhD – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Jonathan Arias – VU LSC-EMBL Partnership for Genome Editing Technologies
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Kathy Lui, PhD – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Weike Pei – Westlake University
    Science Spotlights
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    THE VALUE OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN ADVANCING STEM CELL SCIENCE: A PATHWAY TO ETHICAL, SOCIAL, AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE (Convention Hall C, L1)
    Science Spotlight Moderator: Megan Munsie, PhD (she/her/hers) – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and University of Melbourne
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Martine C. de Vries, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Rosario Isasi, JD MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Miami
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Roslyn Le Gautier – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Hilda Mekelenkamp, PhD, RN – Leiden University Medical Centre
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Kazuto Kato, PhD (he/him/his) – The University of Osaka
    Science Spotlight Speaker: Nienke de Graeff, MA MD PhD (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University
    Science Spotlights
  • 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM HK Time
    PLENARY I: PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM (Grand Hall, L3)

    Chair: Valentina Greco, PhD – Yale Stem Cell Center,Yale Medical School

    Plenary Speaker: Claire Booth, MBBS MSc PhD FRCPCH – UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

    Plenary Speaker: Vidita A. Vaidya, PhD – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

    Plenary Speaker: Michael S. Pepper, MBChB, PhD, MD, PD – University of Pretoria

    Plenary Speaker: Masayo Takahashi, MD, PhD – Vision Care Inc., and Kobe City Eye Hospital, Ritsumeikan University

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    CLINICAL TRIAL UPDATES (Theater 1, L1)
    Co-Chair: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD (she/her/hers) – WiCell Research Institute
    Co-Chair: Arnold R. Kriegstein, MD, PhD – University of California, San Francisco
    Presenting Author: Clive N. Svendsen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute
    Presenting Author: Michael Davis, PhD – Emory University
    Presenting Author: Andres Bratt-Leal, PhD – Aspen Neuroscience Inc.
    Presenting Author: Jun Takahashi, MD, PhD – Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University
    Clinical Applications
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM HK Time
    REFRESHMENT BREAK
  • 10:30 AM - 12:15 PM HK Time
    PLENARY I: PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM (Grand Hall, L3)
    Chair: Valentina Greco, PhD – Yale Stem Cell Center,Yale Medical School
    Plenary Speaker: Claire Booth, MBBS MSc PhD FRCPCH (she/her/hers) – UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
    Plenary Speaker: Vidita A. Vaidya, PhD (she/her/hers) – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
    Plenary Speaker: Michael S. Pepper, MBChB, PhD, MD, PD (he/him/his) – University of Pretoria
    Plenary Speaker: Masayo Takahashi, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Vision Care Inc., and Kobe City Eye Hospital, Ritsumeikan University
    Plenary Session
  • 12:30 PM - 12:55 PM HK Time
    BREAKTHROUGH STRATEGIES USING NOVEL REAGENTS IN MASS PRODUCTION WITH IPSC EXPANSION & DIFFERENTIATION
    Showcase Presenter: Masahiro Kino-oka
    Innovation Showcases
  • 12:30 PM - 12:55 PM HK Time
    SCALABLE FEEDER-FREE IN VITRO DIFFERENTIATION OF STEM CELL-DERIVED NK CELLS
    Showcase Presenter: Tianfu Zhang, PhD – ACROBiosystems
    Innovation Showcases
  • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM HK Time
    ADVANCING NEUROLOGICAL AND RETINAL RESEARCH WITH GENETICALLY DIVERSE HUMAN IPSC-DERIVED CELLULAR MODELS
    Showcase Presenter: Andrew Gaffney, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.
    Innovation Showcases
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM HK Time
    APPLICATIONS AND PROSPECTS OF ORGANOID TECHNOLOGY IN DRUG SCREENING AND TOXICOLOGY TESTING
    Showcase Presenter: Rosanna Zhang
    Innovation Showcases
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM HK Time
    SUCCESSFUL 2D-TO-3D TRANSITION IN MSC BIOPROCESSING : BRIDGING BENCHTOP SCALE TO CLINICAL MANUFACTURING
    Speaker: Rukmini Ladi – Sartorius Stedim North America
    Innovation Showcases
  • 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM HK Time
    REVOLUTIONIZING THERAPIES FOR CHRONIC DISEASES (Theater 2, L1)
    Speaker: Mee-Hae Kim, PhD – Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
    Innovation Showcases
  • 1:05 PM - 1:30 PM HK Time
    RAPIDLY GENERATING FUNCTIONAL FOREBRAIN NEURONS FROM HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS USING AN NGN2 mRNA-LNP PLATFORM
    Showcase Presenter: Robert Judson, PhD (he/him/his) – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
    Innovation Showcases
  • 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM HK Time
    EXHIBIT & POSTER HALL
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    ADVANCING CELL-REPLACEMENT THERAPY FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS: OVERCOMING BARRIERS AND EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES
    Focus Session Moderator: Clive N. Svendsen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute
    Focus Session Speaker: Malin Parmar, PhD – Lund University
    Focus Session Speaker: Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Keio University
    Focus Sessions
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    LEVERAGING OPEN-SOURCE IMAGE-BASED EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS TO INVESTIGATE DYNAMIC STEM CELL STATES
    Focus Session Moderator: Ruwanthi Gunawardane, PhD (she/her/hers) – Allen Institute for Cell Science
    Focus Session Speaker: Soah Lee, PhD – Sungkyunkwan University
    Focus Session Speaker: Rebecca Zaunbrecher, PhD (she/her/hers) – Allen Institute for Cell Science
    Focus Session Speaker: Leigh K. Harris, PhD – Allen Institute
    Focus Session Speaker: Gideon Dunster, PhD (he/him/his) – Allen Institute
    Focus Session Speaker: Sadao Ota, PhD
    Focus Sessions
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS
    Speaker: Janet Rossant, PhD – Editor-in-Chief, Stem Cell Reports
    Speaker: Martin F. Pera, PhD – Associate Editor, Stem Cell Reports
    Speaker: Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Early Career Editorial Board, Stem Cell Reports
    Speaker: Sheila Chari, PhD – Editor-in-Chief, Cell Stem Cell
    Speaker: Yvonne Fisher, PhD – Managing Editor, Stem Cell Reports
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    THE FUTURE OF CELL THERAPIES IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE
    Focus Session Moderator: Amit Rakhit, MD – BlueRock Therapeutics
    Focus Session Speaker: Lorenz Studer, MD – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
    Focus Session Speaker: Andrew Evans, MD – The Royal Melbourne Hospital
    Focus Sessions
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    TOOLS FOR BASIC AND APPLIED STEM CELL BIOLOGY
    Focus Session Moderator: Wenli Yang, PhD – University of Pennsylvania
    Focus Session Speaker: Chong Li, PhD – Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR)
    Focus Session Speaker: Stefan Semrau, PhD – New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute
    Focus Session Speaker: Kimberly A. Snyder, MSc – STEMCELL Technologies
    Focus Session Speaker: Dhruv Sareen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    Focus Session Speaker: Zhe Zhang, PhD
    Focus Session Speaker: Xiaoxia Cui, PhD – Washington University in St. Louis
    Focus Sessions
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM HK Time
    POSTER SESSION 1 (ODD)
  • 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM HK Time
    WELCOME RECEPTION
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM HK Time
    POSTER SESSION 1 (EVEN)
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM HK Time
    ALUMNI AND FACULTY OF THE SAO PAULO SCHOOL OF ADVANCED SCIENCE ON STEM CELL BIOLOGY (2023 YEAR)
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM HK Time
    GERMAN STEM CELL NETWORK MEET-UP HUB
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM HK Time
    MEET THE EDITORS OF STEM CELL REPORTS
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM HK Time
    STEM CELL MODELS AND 3D IMAGE ANALYSIS MEET-UP HUB
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM HK Time
    ANIMAL STUDY AND CLINICAL TRIALS USING IPS CELL-DAPS FOR TREATMENT OF PD
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM HK Time
    EARLY CAREER PIS/GROUP LEADERS NETWORKING
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM HK Time
    GLOBAL INSIGHTS INTO STEM CELL EDUCATION
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM HK Time
    PHYSICIAN-SCIENTIST MEET-UP HUB
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM HK Time
    FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPLEX IPSC-DERIVED NEURAL MODELS: NEW TOOLS FOR ORGANOIDS, SPHEROIDS, AND ORGAN-ON-CHIP PLATFORMS
    Theater Speaker: Austin Passaro, PhD – Axion BioSystems
    Exhibit Hall Theater Talks
  • 4:20 PM - 4:35 PM HK Time
    FATEVIEW™: AI-POWERED, NON-DESTRUCTIVE ‘LIVE’ CELL ANALYTICS AND CELL FATE FORECASTING
    Theater Speaker: Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas, PhD – CellVoyant
    Theater Speaker: Adel Benamara, PhD – CellVoyant Technologies Ltd
    Exhibit Hall Theater Talks
  • 4:40 PM - 4:55 PM HK Time
    HIGH-THROUGHPUT APPROACH TO IMAGING AND SORTING 3D CELL CULTURES, SPHEROIDS, AND ORGANOIDS
    Theater Speaker: Rock Pulak, PhD – Director of Life Science Technologies, Union Biometrica, Inc.
    Exhibit Hall Theater Talks
  • 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM HK Time
    EPIGENETICALLY CORRECTED REPROGRAMMING FOR IPS CELL-DERIVED THERAPIES AND DISEASE MODELING
    Showcase Presenter: Matthew McCormack
    Innovation Showcases
  • 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM HK Time
    PLURIPOTENCY FOR THE PLANET: A GLOBAL CALL TO ADVANCE STEM CELL TECHNOLOGY FOR BIODIVERSITY
    Showcase Presenter: Ashlee Hutchinson
    Innovation Showcases
  • 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM HK Time
    PRECLINICAL EVALUATION OF AUTOLOGOUS IPSC-DERIVED MIDBRAIN DOPAMINERGIC PROGENITORS FOR PARKINSON’S DISEASE, UX-DA001
    Speaker: Shanzheng Yang, PhD (he/him/his) – Shanghai UniXell Biotechnology
    Innovation Showcases
  • 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM HK Time
    THE TRANSITION TO CHEMICALLY DEFINED, ANIMAL-ORIGIN-FREE MEDIA FOR SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE CELL THERAPY MANUFACTURING
    Showcase Presenter: Hyungtaek Jeon, PhD
    Innovation Showcases
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM HK Time
    THE STEM CELL PODCAST PRESENTS: ADVANCING REGENERATIVE MEDICINE WITH CHEMICALLY INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS
    Moderator: Daylon James
    Moderator: Arun Sharma
    Panelist: Hongkui Deng, PhD – Peking University
    Speaker: Candice Liew
    Innovation Showcases