STEM CELLS IN DRUG DISCOVERY: FROM CONCEPT TO APPLICATION

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Concurrent Speaker(s)

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  Benedetta Artegiani, PhD and Delilah Hendriks, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Princess Maxima Center, Netherlands
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  Paul Pang, PhD

  Greenstone Biosciences, United States

Presenting Author(s)

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  Yuting Fu, PhD

  Westlake University, China
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  Lotta Oikari, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Brain and Mental Health
  QIMR Berghofer, Australia
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  Liam Reed

  University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
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  Luciani Silveira de Carvalho, MD, PhD

  Endocrinology
  University of São Paulo, Brazil

Stem cell-based models have advanced several drug compounds to the clinic. This session will feature investigators from academia and industry discussing approaches for screening, testing, and developing novel drugs for clinical application using stem cell-derived disease models.

Presentations:

• CLINICAL TRIAL IN A DISH WITH INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS FOR DRUG DISCOVERY AND PRECISION MEDICINE
  

  Concurrent Speaker: Paul Pang, PhD – Greenstone Biosciences
• SCALABLE GENERATION OF PATIENT-SPECIFIC 3D HUMAN NEUROMUSCULAR ORGANOIDS IDENTIFIES A NOVEL THERAPEUTIC CANDIDATE FOR AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
  

  Presenting Author: Yuting Fu, PhD – Westlake University
• COMBINING COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES AND DISEASE-SPECIFIC IPSC MODELS TO ACHIEVE DRUG REPURPOSING FOR CHILDHOOD DEMENTIA
  

  Presenting Author: Lotta E. Oikari, PhD (she/her/hers) – QIMR Berghofer
• MODELLING RESPIRATORY FIBROSIS USING INTEGRATED, MULTICELLULAR HIPSC-ALVEOLAR ORGANOIDS
  

  Presenting Author: Liam Allen Reed – University of Nottingham
• STRATEGIC IPSC AND HESC APPROACH TO GENERATE DIFFERENTIATED PITUITARY CELLS FOR DISEASE MODELING AND DRUG SCREENING FOR NEW THERAPY
  

  Presenting Author: Luciani Renata Silveira de Carvalho, MD, PhD – University of São Paulo
• ADVANCED HUMAN ORGANOID MODELS FOR DISSECTING TUMOR BIOLOGY
  

  Concurrent Speaker: Benedetta Artegiani, PhD and Delilah Hendriks, PhD (she/her/hers) – Princess Maxima Center