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Full Schedule

  • Thursday, June 12, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    Animal Models of Regeneration
    Concurrent Speaker: Mayssa H. Mokalled, PhD – Washington University, School of Medicine
    Concurrent Speaker: Tatiana Sandoval-Guzmán, PhD – Technische Universität Dresden
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    Metabolic Underpinnings of Stem Cells
    Concurrent Speaker: Mireille Khacho, PhD – University of Ottawa
    Concurrent Speaker: Marlen Knobloch, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Lausanne, Switzerland
    Pluripotency and Development
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    Niche Regulation in Stem Cells and Tissue Regeneration
    Concurrent Speaker: Honglin Wang, PhD – Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
    Concurrent Speaker: Ya-Chieh Hsu, PhD – Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    Revolutionizing Therapies for Genetic Diseases
    Concurrent Speaker: Michael S. Pepper, MBChB, PhD, MD, PD (he/him/his) – University of Pretoria
    Concurrent Speaker: Claire Booth, MBBS MSc PhD FRCPCH (she/her/hers) – UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
    Clinical Applications
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    Stem Cells in Drug Discovery: From Concept to Application
    Concurrent Speaker: Paul Pang, PhD – Greenstone Biosciences
    Concurrent Speaker: Benedetta Artegiani, PhD – Princess Maxima Center
    Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM HK Time
    Plenary II: Development Across Scales: From Fertilization to Tissues to Animals
    Plenary Speaker: Hongmei Wang, PhD – Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Plenary Speaker: Bo Wang, PhD – Stanford University
    Plenary Speaker: Tao Tan, PhD – Kunming University of Science and Technology
    Plenary Speaker: Misao Fujita, PhD – Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University
    Plenary Session
  • 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM HK Time
    Exhibit & Poster Hall
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM HK Time
    Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcases
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    Building an Enhanced Immune System to Fight Disease
    Concurrent Speaker: Megan Levings, PhD – University of British Columbia
    Concurrent Speaker: Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD – Sana Biotechnology Inc. and UCSF
    Clinical Applications
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    Evolutionary Perspective of Development and Regeneration
    Concurrent Speaker: Ayelete Voskoboynik, PhD – Stanford University
    Concurrent Speaker: Florian Raible, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Vienna
    Pluripotency and Development
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    In Vivo and In Vitro Organ Generation
    Concurrent Speaker: Hiromitsu Nakauchi, MD, PhD – Stanford University, USA and Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
    Concurrent Speaker: Liangxue Lai, PhD – Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    Insights into Disease Mechanisms from Stem Cell Research
    Concurrent Speaker: Valerie Gouon-Evans, PhD, PharmD (she/her/hers) – Boston University and Boston Medical center
    Concurrent Speaker: Thomas Eschenhagen, MD (he/him/his) – University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf
    Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    Metabolism, Stem Cells, and Cancer
    Concurrent Speaker: Stephanie Ma, PhD – The University of Hong Kong
    Concurrent Speaker: Ton Rabelink, MD – Leiden University Medical Center
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM HK Time
    Poster Session 2 (Odd)
  • 4:00 PM – 5:35 PM HK Time
    Exhibit Hall Theater Talks
    Exhibit Hall Theater Talks
  • 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM HK Time
    Meet-Up Hubs
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM HK Time
    Refreshment Break
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM HK Time
    Poster Session 2 (Even)
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM HK Time
    Innovation Showcase
    Innovation Showcases