Full Schedule

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 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 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 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

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

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

Showcase Presenter: Masahiro Kino-oka

Showcase Presenter: Tianfu Zhang, PhD – ACROBiosystems

Showcase Presenter: Andrew Gaffney, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Rosanna Zhang

Speaker: Rukmini Ladi – Sartorius Stedim North America

Speaker: Mee-Hae Kim, PhD – Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University

Showcase Presenter: Robert Judson, PhD (he/him/his) – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.

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 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

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

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 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

Theater Speaker: Austin Passaro, PhD – Axion BioSystems

Theater Speaker: Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas, PhD – CellVoyant

Theater Speaker: Adel Benamara, PhD – CellVoyant Technologies Ltd

Theater Speaker: Rock Pulak, PhD – Director of Life Science Technologies, Union Biometrica, Inc.

Showcase Presenter: Matthew McCormack

Showcase Presenter: Ashlee Hutchinson

Speaker: Shanzheng Yang, PhD (he/him/his) – Shanghai UniXell Biotechnology

Showcase Presenter: Hyungtaek Jeon, PhD

Moderator: Daylon James

Moderator: Arun Sharma

Panelist: Hongkui Deng, PhD – Peking University

Speaker: Candice Liew