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  • Thursday, June 12, 2025
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    BEST PRACTICES FOR THE TRANSLATION OF PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL-DERIVED THERAPIES (Hall 3G, L3)

    Chair: Jacqueline Barry, PhD – Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult

    Speaker: Jack Mosher, PhD – International Society for Stem Cell Research

    Speaker: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD – WiCell Research Institute

    Speaker: Jung-Hyun Kim, PhD – Ajou University

    Speaker: Glyn Stacey, PhD – International Stem Cell and Banking Initiative

    Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, Eng PhD – SmartCella

    Speaker: Dhruv Sareen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    Speaker: John Rasko – Cynata Therapeutics

    Speaker: Deborah Hursh, PhD – Hursh Consulting

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    REVOLUTIONIZING THERAPIES FOR CHRONIC DISEASES (Theater 2, L1)

    Co-Chair: Evan L. Lee Graham, PhD – BioLamina

    Co-Chair: Ken Zaret, PhD – Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

    Concurrent Speaker: Jihwan Song, D Phil – Department of Biomedical Sciences, CHA University I iPS Bio, Inc.

    Presenting Author: Rosario Isasi, JD MPH – University of Miami

    Presenting Author: Sarah Kieler Saietz, MSc, BSc – Karolinska Institutet

    Presenting Author: Mo Li, PhD – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

    Presenting Author: Alice Del Vecchio – Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS

    Concurrent Speaker: Hongkui Deng, PhD – Peking University

  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    METABOLISM, STEM CELLS, AND CANCER (Convention Hall B, L1)

    Co-Chair: King Hang Tommy Mau – The Francis Crick Institute

    Co-Chair: Wei Du, MD, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

    Concurrent Speaker: Stephanie Ma, PhD – The University of Hong Kong

    Presenting Author: Tianchi Xin, PhD – Yale School of Medicine

    Presenting Author: Jonathan Jung – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Presenting Author: Anupama Hemalatha, PhD – Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research

    Presenting Author: Leonard I. Zon, MD – Boston Children's Hospital

    Concurrent Speaker: Ton Rabelink, MD – Leiden University Medical Center

  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    MODULATING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM TO FIGHT DISEASE (Theater 1, L1)

    Co-Chair: Gordon Keller, PhD – McEwen Stem Cell Institute, University Health Network

    Co-Chair: Jaime Imitola, MD – Deparment of Neurology University of Connecticut

    Concurrent Speaker: Megan Levings, PhD – University of British Columbia

    Presenting Author: Asuka Morizane, PhD MD – Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital

    Presenting Author: Marco Cortese, PhD – Candiolo Cancer Institute

    Presenting Author: Yasunori Aizawa, PhD – Logomix, Inc.

    Presenting Author: Lili Yang, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

    Concurrent Speaker: John Rasko – Cynata Therapeutics

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    ANIMAL MODELS OF REGENERATION (Convention Hall C, L1)
    Co-Chair: Kathryn S. Jones, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Auckland
    Co-Chair: Li Qian, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Concurrent Speaker: Mayssa H. Mokalled, PhD – Washington University, School of Medicine
    Presenting Author: Albert Ernesto Almada, PhD – University of Southern California (USC)
    Presenting Author: Yi Sun – ShanghaiTech University
    Presenting Author: Kai Lei, PhD – Westlake University
    Presenting Author: Hui Zhang, PhD – Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
    Concurrent Speaker: Tatiana Sandoval-Guzmán, PhD (she/her/hers) – Technische Universität Dresden
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    BEST PRACTICES FOR THE TRANSLATION OF PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL-DERIVED THERAPIES (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
    Global Stakeholder Initiatives
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    METABOLIC UNDERPINNINGS OF STEM CELLS (Convention Hall B, L1)
    Co-Chair: Andrew Gaffney, PhD – STEMCELL Technologies, Inc.
    Co-Chair: David Elliott, PhD – Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
    Concurrent Speaker: Qiurong Ding, PhD – Shanghai Institute for Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Presenting Author: Shyh-Chang Ng, PhD – Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Presenting Author: Qianhui Yu, PhD – Institute of Human Biology
    Presenting Author: Wei Jiang, Ph.D (he/him/his) – Wuhan University
    Presenting Author: Xudong Fu, PhD (he/him/his) – Zhejiang University
    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 (Convention Hall A, L1)
    Co-Chair: Haifan Lin, PhD – Yale University School of Medicine
    Co-Chair: Ying Zhang, PhD – The Francis Crick Institute
    Concurrent Speaker: Honglin Wang, PhD – Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
    Presenting Author: Chia-Wei Cheng, PhD – Columbia University Dept of Genetics and Development
    Presenting Author: Shahragim Tajbakhsh, PhD – Institut Pasteur Stem Cells and Development
    Presenting Author: Min Yang, PhD In Progress – National Institute of Biological Sciences
    Presenting Author: Sangbum Park, PhD (he/him/his) – Michigan State University
    Concurrent Speaker: Bing Zhang, PhD – Westlake University
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    REVOLUTIONIZING THERAPIES FOR CHRONIC DISEASES (Theater 2, L1)
    Co-Chair: Evan L. Lee Graham, PhD (he/him/his) – BioLamina
    Co-Chair: Ken Zaret, PhD (he/him/his) – Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
    Concurrent Speaker: Jihwan Song, D Phil – Department of Biomedical Sciences, CHA University I iPS Bio, Inc.
    Presenting Author: Rosario Isasi, JD MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Miami
    Presenting Author: Sarah Kieler Saietz, MSc, BSc (she/her/hers) – Karolinska Institutet
    Presenting Author: Mo Li, PhD – King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Presenting Author: Alice Del Vecchio – Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS
    Concurrent Speaker: Hongkui Deng, PhD – Peking University
    Clinical Applications
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM HK Time
    STEM CELLS IN DRUG DISCOVERY: FROM CONCEPT TO APPLICATION (Theater 1, L1)
    Co-Chair: Shuibing Chen, PhD – Weill Cornell Medical College
    Co-Chair: Martin F. Pera, PhD – Associate Editor, Stem Cell Reports
    Concurrent Speaker: Paul Pang, PhD – Greenstone Biosciences
    Presenting Author: Yuting Fu, PhD – Westlake University
    Presenting Author: Lotta E. Oikari, PhD (she/her/hers) – QIMR Berghofer
    Presenting Author: Liam Allen Reed – University of Nottingham
    Presenting Author: Luciani Renata Silveira de Carvalho, MD, PhD – University of São Paulo
    Concurrent Speaker: Benedetta Artegiani, PhD and Delilah Hendriks, PhD (she/her/hers) – Princess Maxima Center
    Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM HK Time
    REFRESHMENT BREAK
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM HK Time
    PLENARY II: DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SCALES: FROM FERTILIZATION TO TISSUES TO ANIMALS (Grand Hall, L3)
    Co-Chair: Tina Mukherjee – Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inSTEM)
    Co-Chair: Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Osaka University, and Institute of Science Tokyo
    Plenary Speaker: Tao Tan, PhD (he/him/his) – Kunming University of Science and Technology
    Plenary Speaker: Bo Wang, PhD – Stanford University
    Plenary Speaker: Misao Fujita, PhD – Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University
    Plenary Speaker: Hongmei Wang, PhD – Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Anne McLaren Memorial Lecture
    Plenary Session
  • 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM HK Time
    EXHIBIT & POSTER HALL
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    EMERGING ETHICAL ISSUES WITH NEURAL ORGANOIDS (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
    Global Stakeholder Initiatives
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM HK Time
    EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE OF DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION (Convention Hall C, L1)
    Co-Chair: Robin Lovell-Badge, PhD – The Francis Crick Institute
    Co-Chair: Kathy Niakan, PhD – University of Cambridge
    Concurrent Speaker: Ayelete Voskoboynik, PhD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Presenting Author: Rui Fan, PHD – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
    Presenting Author: Anita Adami, MSc – Lund University
    Presenting Author: Assa Sherman, PhD Candidate – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Presenting Author: Lauren Goins, 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 (Theater 2, L1)
    Co-Chair: Ya-Wen Chen, PhD (she/her/hers) – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
    Co-Chair: Jürgen Knoblich, PhD – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Science
    Concurrent Speaker: Hiromitsu Nakauchi, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Stanford University, USA and Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
    Presenting Author: Katja G. Weinacht, MD, PhD – Stanford University
    Presenting Author: Irene Talon, PhD (she/her/hers) – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
    Presenting Author: Sean B. Wilson, PhD – reNEW, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine
    Presenting Author: Xiling Shen, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    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 (Hall 3F, L3)
    Co-Chair: Jihwan Song, D Phil – Department of Biomedical Sciences, CHA University I iPS Bio, Inc.
    Co-Chair: Akitsu Hotta, PhD – CiRA, Kyoto University
    Concurrent Speaker: Valerie Gouon-Evans, PhD, PharmD (she/her/hers) – Boston University and Boston Medical Center
    Presenting Author: Thierry VandenDriessche, PhD (he/him/his) – Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
    Presenting Author: Jeng-Fan Lo, PhD – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Presenting Author: Bruno Ghirotto, MSc – University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Presenting Author: Celine Bueds (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    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 (Convention Hall B, L1)
    Co-Chair: King Hang Tommy Mau – The Francis Crick Institute
    Co-Chair: Wei Du, MD, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    Concurrent Speaker: Stephanie Ma, PhD – The University of Hong Kong
    Presenting Author: Tianchi Xin, PhD – Yale School of Medicine
    Presenting Author: Jonathan Jung (he/him/his) – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Presenting Author: Anupama Hemalatha, PhD – Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research
    Presenting Author: Leonard I. Zon, MD – Boston Children's Hospital
    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 (Theater 1, L1)
    Co-Chair: Gordon Keller, PhD – McEwen Stem Cell Institute, University Health Network
    Co-Chair: Jaime Imitola, MD (he/him/his) – Deparment of Neurology University of Connecticut
    Concurrent Speaker: Megan Levings, PhD – University of British Columbia
    Presenting Author: Asuka Morizane, PhD MD – Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital
    Presenting Author: Marco Cortese, PhD (he/him/his) – Candiolo Cancer Institute
    Presenting Author: Yasunori Aizawa, PhD – Logomix, Inc.
    Presenting Author: Lili Yang, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
    Concurrent Speaker: John Rasko – Cynata Therapeutics
    Clinical Applications
  • 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 – Gameto Inc.
    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
    ROBUST PROTOCOL FOR DIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS TO IMMUNE CELLS TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF CELL THERAPIES
    Speaker: Diana Golubeva – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
    Innovation Showcases
  • 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM HK Time
    EXHIBIT HALL PUB CRAWL
  • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM HK Time
    REFRESHMENT BREAK
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM HK Time
    POSTER SESSION 2 (ODD)
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM HK Time
    POSTER SESSION 2 (EVEN)
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM HK Time
    COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM HK Time
    ISSCR COMMITTEE CHAIRS + VICE CHAIRS NETWORKING
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM HK Time
    LGBTQIA+ MEET-UP HUB
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM HK Time
    SWIMMING WITH IDEAS: ZEBRAFISH & STEM CELLS
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM HK Time
    CIRA MEET-UP HUB: THE HAPPENINGS AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF IPS CELLS
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM HK Time
    POLICY, ETHICS, AND REGULATORY ISSUES
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 5:00 PM - 5:45 PM HK Time
    STEM CELLS FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION: INNOVATIONS AND CHALLENGES
    Meet-Up Hubs
  • 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM HK Time
    HIGHLY EFFICIENT AND AUTOMATED SINGLE-CELL CLONING OF HIPSCS UTILISING THE POWER OF AUTOMATION & AI
    Speaker: Jonathan Whitchurch, Phd – IotaSciences
    Exhibit Hall Theater Talks
  • 4:20 PM - 4:35 PM HK Time
    A SERUM-FREE, CHEMICALLY DEFINED WORKFLOW SOLUTION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT & MANUFACTURING OF CELL-BASED THERAPEUTIC PRODUCTS
    Speaker: Jessie Ni – BioLegend
    Exhibit Hall Theater Talks
  • 4:40 PM - 4:55 PM HK Time
    THE ROAD TO SCALABLE MANUFACTURING: CHALLENGES AND INNOVATIONS
    Speaker: Sam Tsz Wing
    Exhibit Hall Theater Talks
  • 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM HK Time
    MYTOS IDEM: A FLASK-BASED AUTOMATION PLATFORM, TO MOVE FAST FROM LAB TO MANUFACTURING
    Exhibit Hall Theater Talks
  • 5:20 PM - 5:35 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
  • 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