Full Schedule

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

Co-Chair: Fanyi Zeng, MD, PhD – Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Concurrent Speaker: Emi K. Nishimura, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – The University of Tokyo

Presenting Author: Paula Martos Salvo – Lund University

Presenting Author: Wolfgang Wagner, MD, PhD – Aachen University

Presenting Author: Lily Guo, PhD – Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

Concurrent Speaker: Thomas Rando, MD, PhD – University of California Los Angeles

Co-Chair: Nienke de Graeff, MA MD PhD (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden University

Co-Chair: Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas, PhD – CellVoyant

Presenting Author: Lap Hang Tse, PhD – The University of Hong Kong

Presenting Author: Vincent R. Knight-Schrijver, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Cambridge

Presenting Author: Yang Fu (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Presenting Author: Huaigeng Xu, M.D.,Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

Concurrent Speaker: Nathan Palpant, PhD – The University of Queensland

Concurrent Speaker: Jiguang Wang, PhD – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Panelist: William KC Cheung, PhD – Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation

Panelist: Megan Munsie, PhD (she/her/hers) – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and University of Melbourne

Panelist: Janet Rossant, PhD – Editor-in-Chief, Stem Cell Reports

Panelist: Mimmi Mononen, PhD – Springer Nature

Moderator: Anjie Ni, BSc (she/her/hers) – McGill University

Co-Chair: Denise Zujur, PhD – Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University

Co-Chair: William J. Anderson – Harvard University

Concurrent Speaker: Ryuichi Okamoto, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Institute of Science Tokyo

Presenting Author: Kevin D. Costa – Novoheart, Medera Biopharm

Presenting Author: Wei Zuo, PhD (he/him/his) – Tongji University

Presenting Author: Shin-Jeong Lee, PhD – Yonsei University

Presenting Author: Marcelo N. Rivolta, MD PhD – University of Sheffield and Rinri Therapeutics

Concurrent Speaker: Xin Cheng, PhD – Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Co-Chair: Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Early Career Editorial Board, Stem Cell Reports

Co-Chair: Gabriele Gelezauskaite – University of Sheffield

Concurrent Speaker: Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Weizmann Institute of Science

Presenting Author: Xingguo Liu – Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Presenting Author: Tianming Wu, PhD – The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

Presenting Author: Ying Zhang, PhD – The Francis Crick Institute

Presenting Author: Qiong Wang, MD & PhD (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Concurrent Speaker: Bhavana Muralidharan, PhD – Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine

Chair: Ivana Barbaric, DPhil – The University of Sheffield

Chair: Jennifer Moody, PhD – Danaher

Concurrent Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, Eng PhD (he/him/his) – SmartCella

Concurrent Speaker: Tenneille Ludwig, PhD (she/her/hers) – WiCell Research Institute

Concurrent Speaker: Stefan Irion, MD (he/him/his) – BlueRock Therapeutics

Concurrent Speaker: Lijian Hui, PhD – Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, CAS

Concurrent Speaker: Ana Hidalgo-Simon, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Leiden University Medical Center

Co-Chair: Stuart Forbes, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – The University of Edinburgh

Co-Chair: Su-Yi Tsai, PhD – National Taiwan University

Concurrent Speaker: Sina Bartfeld, PhD – Technische Universität Berlin

Presenting Author: Amos Chungwon Lee, PhD – Meteor Biotech

Presenting Author: Jie ZHOU, PhD – The University of Hong Kong

Presenting Author: Jose Agustin Cota Coronado, PhD – Monash University

Presenting Author: Ying Xi, PhD (she/her/hers) – ShanghaiTech University, School of Life Science & Technology

Concurrent Speaker: Kazuo Takayama, PhD (he/him/his) – Kyoto University

Co-Chair: Kirsten C. Sadler Edepli, PhD – NYUAD

Co-Chair: Lijian Hui, PhD – Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, CAS

Plenary Speaker: James Hudson, PhD (he/him/his) – QIMR Berghofer

Plenary Speaker: Hongyan Wang, PhD (she/her/hers) – Duke-NUS Medical School

Award Winner: Paola Arlotta, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard University

Plenary Speaker: Toshio Suda, MD,PhD – Institute of Hematology and Blood Disease Hospital, Ernest McCullough Memorial Lecture

Showcase Presenter: Riya Sharma, BSc (she/her/hers) – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.

Co-Chair: Uma Lakshmipathy, PhD (she/her/hers) – Thermo Fisher Scientific

Co-Chair: Lee L. Rubin – Harvard University

Concurrent Speaker: Tae-Eun Park, PhD (she/her/hers) – Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

Presenting Author: Yuan-Hung Liu, MD – Far Eastern Memorial Hospital

Presenting Author: Zhe Wang, PhD – Kyoto University

Presenting Author: Youngdoo Chung – Dankook University

Presenting Author: Chao Christina Liang, BDS, MDS (she/her/hers) – The University of Hong Kong

Concurrent Speaker: Linna Zhou, PhD (she/her/hers) – Nuffield Department of Medicine and Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford

Co-Chair: Athanasia D. Panopoulos, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Co-Chair: Xian Weng (he/him/his) – Mytos

Concurrent Speaker: Maria Pia Cosma, PhD – Centre for Genomic Regulation

Presenting Author: Jean Paul Chadarevian, PhD – University of California, Irvine

Presenting Author: Rongrong Wu, PhD (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University

Presenting Author: Dong-Wook Kim, PhD – Yonsei Univ College of Medicine

Presenting Author: Keisuke Kaji, PhD – University of Edinburgh

Concurrent Speaker: Pentao Liu, PhD (he/him/his) – The University of Hong Kong

Moderator: Misao Fujita, PhD – Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University

Moderator: Douglas Sipp – Riken Center for Biosystems Dynamics, Japan

Concurrent Speaker: Yaojin Peng, PhD (he/him/his) – Institution of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Concurrent Speaker: Ji hyeon Ju – College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea

Concurrent Speaker: Marlena Pecyna, PhD, habilitation (she/her/hers) – Jagiellonian University

Concurrent Speaker: Jaime Imitola, MD (he/him/his) – Deparment of Neurology University of Connecticut

Co-Chair: Clive N. Svendsen, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute

Co-Chair: Malin Parmar, PhD (she/her/hers) – Lund University

Concurrent Speaker: Sumru Bayin, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge

Presenting Author: DI PAN, Msc (he/him/his) – Australian National University

Presenting Author: Ana Lilia Serna-Valverde, MD, PhD – University of Nottingham

Presenting Author: Julien Muffat, Ph.D. – University of Toronto/The Hospital for Sick Children

Presenting Author: Lyandysha Zholudeva, PhD – Gladstone Institutes

Concurrent Speaker: Patrick C.H Hsieh, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica

Co-Chair: Carlos Filipe Pereira, PhD – Lund University

Co-Chair: Nissim Benvenisty, MD,PhD – The Hebrew University

Concurrent Speaker: Cheng Kui Qu, MD, PHD – Emory University

Presenting Author: Maria Azkanaz, MSc. (PhD student) – Netherlands Cancer Institute

Presenting Author: Wangqing Dun, PhD – Institute of Hematology & Blood Diseases Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College

Presenting Author: Jennifer Pak Yan Ho, MS – Columbia University Medical Center

Presenting Author: Youssef Ellaithy – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Concurrent Speaker: Samra Turajlic, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Francis Crick Institute, The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust

Co-Chair: Anjie Ni, BSc (she/her/hers) – McGill University

Co-Chair: Nika Shakiba – University of British Columbia

Concurrent Speaker: Nicolas Rivron, PhD, Eng. (he/him/his) – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Science

Presenting Author: Antonio Giraldez – Yale School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Maria Giovanna Garone, BSc, MSc, PhD (she/her/hers) – Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

Presenting Author: Jia Ping Tan, PhD – Westlake University

Presenting Author: Jacqueline Larouche – Retro Biosciences

Concurrent Speaker: Alex Gould, PhD (he/him/his) – The Francis Crick Institute

Theater Speaker: Ying Zhang

Showcase Presenter: Qiuning Li