Registration & Coffee

Opening Welcome from the Conference Chairman – Karl Tryggvason, Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School & Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

Using functional genomics to understand neural degeneration
Lawrence Stanton, Associate Director, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

Therapeutic Potential of Human Neural Crest-Derived Stem Cells
Darius Widera, Lecturer, University Of Reading, United Kingdom

Differentiation of human embryonic stem cells to endothelial progenitor cells on laminins in defined and xeno-free systems
Mien Nguyen, Research Fellow, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Cellular modelling of trisomy 21 as an approach to understand Alzheimer’s disease
Dean Nizetic, Professor of Molecular Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Lunch, Poster Session and Networking in Exhibit Hall

Aerosol-based stem cell delivery as a new strategy for treatment of lung diseases
Badrul Hisham Yahaya, Senior Lecturer/Principal Investigator/Head, Stem Cell and Gene Therapy Group, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

A phase II clinical trial in patients with Buerger’s disease using bone marrow derived, pooled, allogeneic mesenchymal stromal cells
Anoop CH, Assistant Director – Clinical Research, Stempeutics Research Pvt. Ltd., India

Clinical Application of Osteoblastic Cell-based Therapy in Spinal Fusion
Wendy Sonnet, Clinical Study Manager, Bone Therapeutics, Belgium
Sabrina Ena, Preclinical Research Supervisor, Bone Therapeutics, Belgium

Cutting Edge Aspects in Stem Cell and PRP injections in an office Setting
Joseph Purita, Medical Director of Stem Cell Centers of America, Institute Of Regenerative and Molecular Orthopedics, United States of America

End of Day One

Registration & Coffee

Adipose Stem Cell Extraction: Bridging the Gap
Teck Sin Lim, Founder, Adigenics, Singapore
Pamela Mok, Project Manager, Adigenics, Singapore

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

Mesenchymal stem cells for cartilage regeneration
Zheng Yang, Principal Investigator, NUS Tissue Engineering Program, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Ex-Vivo Expansion Of Human Cardiac Biopsy-Derived Stem Cells In Physico-Chemically Defined Nutrient Media
Silvana Bardelli, Group Leader - Technology Transfer and Product Development, Swiss Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Switzerland

Molecular Signatures of Adipose-derived Stem Cells: Potential for Metabolic Reprogramming
Shigeki Sugii, Group Leader/Assistant Professor, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium/Duke NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

Lunch Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

Need for reference standards in cell therapy
Vivek Tanavde, Principal Investigator, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore

Genome editing-mediated cell transplantations: Clinical, ethical and legal issues
Tetsuya Ishii, Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

PANEL DISCUSSION - Regulatory Landscape, Ethical Considerations & Clinical Challenges in Stem Cell Translation

Close of Conference