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SELECTBIO Conferences Clinical Applications of Stem Cells

Clinical Applications of Stem Cells Agenda


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Wednesday, 24 February 2016

08:00

Registration & Coffee

08:55

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


Session Chair: Karl Tryggvason Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School & Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm

09:00

Roy CalneKeynote Presentation

Gene/Stem cells for treatment of diabetes
Roy Calne, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

10:00

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

10:30

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area


Session Chair: Roy Calne, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

11:15

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

11:45

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

12:15

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

12:45

Lunch, Poster Session and Networking in Exhibit Hall


Session Chair: Roy Calne, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

14:15

Karl TryggvasonKeynote Presentation

Defined xeno-free laminin matrix-based differentiation protocols for making clinical quality stem cell -derived cells for regenerative medicine
Karl Tryggvason, Professor, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School & Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Singapore

15:15

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

15:45

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area


Session Chair: Roy Calne, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

16:30

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

17:00

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

17:30

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

18:00

End of Day One

Thursday, 25 February 2016

08:00

Registration & Coffee


Session Chair: Lawrence Stanton, Associate Director, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

09:00

Simon CoolKeynote Presentation

Application of glycotherapeutic agents for mesenchymal stem cell therapies
Simon Cool, Senior Principal Investigator, Institute of Medical Biology, A*STAR, & Professor (Adjunct Research), National University of Singapore, Singapore

10:00

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

10:30

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area


Session Chair: Lawrence Stanton, Associate Director, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

11:15

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

11:45

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

12:15

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

12:45

Lunch Break and Networking in Exhibition Area


Session Chair: Shigeki Sugii, Group Leader/Assistant Professor, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium/Duke NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

14:15

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

15:00

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

15:45

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area

16:30

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

17:30

Close of Conference


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