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  • Thursday, June 12, 2025
  • 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM HK Time
    Exhibit & Poster Hall
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM HK Time
    ADVANCING IPSC WORKFLOWS TO PAVE THE WAY FOR AUTOLOGOUS MANUFACTURING IN THE CLOSED SYSTEM CLINIMACS PRODIGY®
    Showcase Presenter: Sebastian Knöbel, PhD – Miltenyi Biotec
    Showcase Presenter: Shinsuke Yoshida, PhD – CiRA Foundation
    Innovation Showcases
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM HK Time
    EXPLORING THE APPLICATION OF DETERMINISTICALLY PROGRAMMED HIPSC-DERIVED CELLS TO ADVANCE EARLY-STAGE DRUG DISCOVERY
    Showcase Presenter: Ann Byrne – bit.bio
    Showcase Presenter: Gianmarco Mastrogiovanni – Bit Bio Ltd
    Innovation Showcases
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM HK Time
    FROM RESEARCH TO REALITY: TRANSFORMING REGENERATIVE MEDICINE AND FERTILITY
    Showcase Presenter: Fredrik Lanner, PhD – Karolinska Institutet
    Showcase Presenter: Christian C. Kramme, PhD, BS (he/him/his) – Gameto Inc.
    Showcase Presenter: Bruna Paulsen
    Showcase Presenter: Ferran Barrachina, PhD (he/him/his) – Gameto Inc.
    Innovation Showcases
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM HK Time
    REDEFINING NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISEASE MODELS WITH STEM CELLS AND NEXT-GENERATION ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
    Showcase Presenter: Jen Pan
    Showcase Presenter: Hsiu-Chuan Lin, PhD – ETH Zürich
    Showcase Presenter: Marie Engelene J. Obien, PhD – MaxWell Biosystems
    Showcase Presenter: Zhuoliang Li, PhD – MaxWell Biosystems AG
    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
  • 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM HK Time
    MEET-UP HUBS
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM HK Time
    REFRESHMENT BREAK
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM HK Time
    Geno-Writing™: The iPSC Genome Engineering Engine for Tomorrow’s Cell Therapy
    Showcase Presenter: Yasunori Aizawa, PhD – Logomix, Inc.
    Innovation Showcases
  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM HK Time
    INNOVATION SHOWCASE
    Innovation Showcases
  • CONCURRENT TRACK - 8:30 AM THURSDAY
  • 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 (she/her/hers) – Technische Universität Dresden
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    ISSCR CLINICAL BEST PRACTICES
    Global Stakeholder Initiatives
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    METABOLIC UNDERPINNINGS OF STEM CELLS
    Concurrent Speaker: Marlen Knobloch, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Lausanne, Switzerland
    Concurrent Speaker: Qiurong Ding, PhD – Shanghai Institute for Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    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 CHRONIC 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 and Delilah Hendriks, PhD (she/her/hers) – Princess Maxima Center
    Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
  • PLENARY SESSION - 10:30 AM THURSDAY
  • 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 (he/him/his) – Kunming University of Science and Technology
    Plenary Speaker: Misao Fujita, PhD – Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University
    Plenary Session
  • INNOVATION SHOWCASE - 12:30 PM THURSDAY
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM HK Time
    INNOVATION SHOWCASE
    Innovation Showcases
  • CONCURRENT TRACK - 2:00 PM THURSDAY
  • 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

  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    EMERGING ETHICAL ISSUES WITH NEURAL ORGANOIDS
    Chair: Jeremy Sugarman, MD, MPH, MA – Johns Hopkins University
    Concurrent Speaker: Sergiu P. Pașca, PhD – Stanford University
    Concurrent Speaker: Julian Savulescu
    Commentator: Paola Arlotta, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Commentator: Kazuto Kato, PhD – Osaka University
    Global Stakeholder Initiatives
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE OF DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION
    Concurrent Speaker: Ayelete Voskoboynik, PhD (she/her/hers) – 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 (he/him/his) – 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
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    MODULATING THE 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
  • POSTER SESSIONS & EXHIBIT HALL EVENTS - 4:00 PM THURSDAY
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM HK Time
    POSTER SESSION 2 (ODD)
  • EXHIBIT HALL THEATER - 4:00 PM THURSDAY
  • 4:00 PM – 5:35 PM HK Time
    EXHIBIT HALL THEATER TALKS
    Exhibit Hall Theater Talks
  • POSTER SESSIONS & EXHIBIT HALL EVENTS - 4:00 PM THURSDAY
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM HK Time
    POSTER SESSION 2 (EVEN)