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  • Friday, June 13, 2025
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM HK Time
    Toshio Suda Title Coming Soon
  • 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM HK Time
    EXHIBIT & POSTER HALL
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM HK Time
    ADVANCING ORGANOID MODELS: INTRODUCING NEW CAPABILITIES FOR INTESTINAL AND HEPATIC RESEARCH
    Showcase Presenter: Riya Sharma, BSc (she/her/hers) – STEMCELL Technologies Inc.
    Innovation Showcases
  • 4:00 PM – 5:15 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
  • 5:15 PM – 5:45 PM HK Time
    CAREER EXPLORATION TALKS
  • CONCURRENT TRACK - 8:30 AM FRIDAY
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    AGING AND REGENERATION
    Concurrent Speaker: Emi K. Nishimura, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – The University of Tokyo
    Concurrent Speaker: Anissa Widjaja, PhD – Duke-NUS Medical School
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • CONCURRENT TRACK & CAREER PANEL - 8:30 AM FRIDAY
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    AI AND CANCER EVOLUTION
    Concurrent Speaker: Jiguang Wang, PhD – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Concurrent Speaker: Nathan Palpant, PhD – The University of Queensland
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    Career Panel
    Panelist: William KC Cheung, PhD – Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
    Panelist: Stylianos Lefkopoulos, PhD – Springer Nature
    Panelist: Megan Munsie, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Panelist: Anjie Ni – McGill University
    Panelist: Janet Rossant, PhD – The Gairdner Foundation
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    CLINICAL TRANSLATION OF BIOENGINEERED TISSUE-BASED THERAPEUTICS
    Concurrent Speaker: Ryuichi Okamoto, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Institute of Science Tokyo
    Concurrent Speaker: Xin Cheng, PhD – Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
    Clinical Applications
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    FATE CHOICES IN DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION
    Concurrent Speaker: Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Weizmann Institute of Science
    Concurrent Speaker: Bhavana Muralidharan, PhD – Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine
    Pluripotency and Development
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    MANUFACTURING WITH COMMERCIALIZATION IN MIND
    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
    Global Stakeholder Initiatives
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    STEM CELLS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE
    Concurrent Speaker: Sina Bartfeld, PhD – Technische Universität Berlin
    Concurrent Speaker: Kazuo Takayama, PhD (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
  • PLENARY SESSION - 10:30 AM FRIDAY
  • 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM HK Time
    PLENARY III: ADULT HOMEOSTASIS: STEM CELLS IN PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASE
    Plenary Speaker: Hongyan Wang, PhD (she/her/hers) – Duke-NUS Medical School
    Award Winner: Paola Arlotta, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Plenary Speaker: James Hudson, PhD (he/him/his) – QIMR Berghofer
    Plenary Speaker: Toshio Suda, MD,PhD – Institute of Hematology and Blood Disease Hospital
    Plenary Session
  • INNOVATION SHOWCASE - 12:30 PM FRIDAY
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM HK Time
    INNOVATION SHOWCASE
    Innovation Showcases
  • CONCURRENT TRACK & CAREER PANEL - 2:00 PM FRIDAY
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    ENGINEERING REGENERATION
    Concurrent Speaker: Tae-Eun Park, PhD (she/her/hers) – UNIST
    Concurrent Speaker: Linna Zhou, PhD (she/her/hers) – Nuffield Department of Medicine and Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    REGULATORY FRAGMENTATION AND UNPROVEN STEM CELL THERAPIES: BEYOND HARMONIZATION
    Moderator: Misao Fujita, PhD – Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University
    Moderator: Douglas Sipp
    Concurrent Speaker: Jaime Imitola – Deparment of Neurology University of Connecticut
    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: Yaojin Peng, PhD (he/him/his) – Institution of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Global Stakeholder Initiatives
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    REPROGRAMMING AND REJUVENATION FOR DYSFUNCTIONAL ORGANS
    Concurrent Speaker: Maria Pia Cosma, PhD – Centre for Genomic Regulation
    Concurrent Speaker: Pentao Liu, PhD (he/him/his) – The University of Hong Kong
    Clinical Applications
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    STEM CELL MODELS OF TISSUE INJURY AND REPAIR
    Concurrent Speaker: Sumru Bayin, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge
    Concurrent Speaker: Patrick C.H Hsieh, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
    Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    STEM CELLS AND CELL METASTASIS
    Concurrent Speaker: Eduard Batlle, PhD – Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) & ICREA
    Concurrent Speaker: Samra Turajlic, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Francis Crick Institute, The Royal Marsden Hospital NHS Trust
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HK Time
    TECHNOLOGIES TO STUDY DEVELOPMENT AND PHYSIOLOGY
    Concurrent Speaker: Nicolas Rivron, PhD, Eng. (he/him/his) – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Science
    Concurrent Speaker: Alex Gould, PhD (he/him/his) – The Francis Crick Institute
    Pluripotency and Development
  • POSTER SESSIONS & EXHIBIT HALL EVENTS - 4:00 PM FRIDAY
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM HK Time
    POSTER SESSION 1 (ODD)
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM HK Time
    POSTER SESSION 1 (EVEN)