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Full Schedule

Full Schedule

  • Friday, June 13, 2025
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    Aging and Regeneration
    Concurrent Speaker: Emi Nishimura, MD, PhD – The University of Tokyo
    Concurrent Speaker: Anissa Widjaja, PhD – Duke-NUS Medical School
    Organ Generation and Regeneration
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    AI and Cancer Evolution
    Concurrent Speaker: Bissan Al-Lazikani, PhD – University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Concurrent Speaker: Jiguang Wang, PhD – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Somatic Stem Cells and Cancer
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM HK Time
    Clinical Translation of Bioengineered Tissue-based Therapeutics
    Concurrent Speaker: Ryuichi Okamoto, MD, PhD – Institute of Science Tokyo
    Concurrent Speaker: Xin Cheng
    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
    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
  • 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
    Plenary Speaker: Paola Arlotta, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Plenary Speaker: James Hudson, PhD (he/him/his) – QIMR Berghofer
    Plenary Speaker: Toshio Suda
    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
    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
    Reprogramming and Rejuvenation for Dysfunctional Organs
    Concurrent Speaker: Maria Pia Cosma, PhD – Centre for Genomic Regulation
    Concurrent Speaker: Pentao Liu, PhD – 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 Turajilic, PhD – The Francis Crick Institute
    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 – The Francis Crick Institute
    Pluripotency and Development
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM HK Time
    Poster Session 3 (Odd)
  • 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
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM HK Time
    Poster Session 3 (Even)
  • 5:15 PM – 5:45 PM HK Time
    Career Exploration Talks