10th Royan International Congress on Stem Cell Biology and Technology
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September 3-5, 2014
Tehran-Iran
Confirmed invited speakers
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Name
Titles
1. Epigenetic Regulation of Stem
Cells during Reprogramming and
Differentiation:
Histone
Deacetylases and Centrosomes
1.
Gerald P.
Schatten
2. Manufactured Oocytes and
Sperm from Human Stem Cells:
Just how Promiscuous are Cells
in Vitro?
1.
The Origin of the Brain
2.
2.
Ali Brivanlou
Recapitulation of early
embryonic spatial patterning in
human embryonic stem cells
using micropatterned control of
colony architecture.
1. Design and operation of a
multi-product cell therapy GMP
manufacturing facility in the USA
3.
Adrian Gee
2. Large scale production of
human mesenchymal stromal
cells for use in the treatment of
stroke
Institute
Director, Pittsburgh Development Center
Deputy Director, Magee-Womens Research
Institute
Professor & Vice Chair of Obstetrics,
Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences,
and Cell Biology and Physiology, University
of
Pittsburgh
Director of the Division of Developmental
and Regenerative Medicine, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine
USA
Robert & Harriet Heilbrunn Professor
Head of Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology
and Molecular Embryology
The Rockefeller University
And Professor Columbia Graduate School
of Architecture, Adjunct
New York, NY 10065
Professor of Pediatrics & Medicine
GMP Facilities Director
Center for Cell & Gene Therapy
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
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September 3-5, 2014
Tehran-Iran
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Titles
1. Bioengineer attempts to (re)generate new nephrons and the
kidney
4.
Ariela Begnini
2. Mesenchymal Stem cells as a
cure for acute kidney injury
1. Role of Polycomb epigenetic
repressors in stem cells, cancer
and development
5.
Maarten van
Lohuizen
Rui L. Reis
6.
2. Epigenetic cancer therapy:
Unexpected results of prolonged
Ezh2 inhibition in an in vivo
model for Glioblastoma
1. New Approaches for Tissue
Engineering of Different Tissues
Using Adult Stem Cells and
Natural Origin Materials"
2. Bioinspired Scaffold, Hydrogel
and Stem Cell Based Strategies
for Engineering Distinct Tissues
Institute
Head, Department Molecular Medicine
IRCCS - Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche
"Mario Negri"
Centro Anna Maria Astori
Science and Technology Park Kilometro
Rosso
Via Stezzano, 87 - 24126 Bergamo, Italy
Research, division Molecular Genetics - H4
The Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni
van Leeuwenhoek hospital
Plesmanlaan 121
1066 CX AMSTERDAM
The Netherlands
Full Professor of Tissue Engineering, Regenerative
Medicine & Stem Cells
(Professor Catedrático)
Director of the 3B´s Research Group
Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics
Dept. of Polymer Engineering, University of Minho
Headquarters of the European Institute of
Excellence on Tissue Engineering and
Regenerative Medicine AvePark, Zona Industrial da
Gandra
S. Cláudio do Barco
4806-909 Caldas das Taipas
Guimarães
Portugal
Director of the PT Government Associate Laboratory
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September 3-5, 2014
Tehran-Iran
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Name
Florian
Grahammer
Institute
1.
Kidney
regeneration
glomerular perspective
–
2. Kidney regeneration – tubular
perspective
7.
Douglas Sipp
8.
Titles
1)
The
landscape
products
global
for
regulatory
cell-based
2) Stem cell clinical applications
– uses and abuses
Assistant Professor
Clinical Research Centre
Renal Division - Department of Medicine
University Hospital Freiburg
Breisacher Straße 66
79106 Freiburg im Breisgau
Germany
Science Policy and Ethics Studies Unit
Leader
Division of Human Stem Cell Technology
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology
2-2-3 Minatojima-minamimachi
Chuo-ku
Kobe, Hyogo
650-0047, Japan
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September 3-5, 2014
Tehran-Iran
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Name
Titles
Institute
Chiara Bonini
1) Cancer immunotherapy with
genetically modified T cells
Head of Experimental Hematology Unit
Ospedale San Raffaele
Italy
2) Memory T cells with stem-cell
like features in health and
disease
9.
Stefan
Scheding
of primary human bone marrow
mesenchymal stem cells.
2) Processing of peripheral blood
progenitor cell products using a
novel acoustophoresis platform
10.
Olivier
Pourquie
11.
1) Isolation and characterization
1)
Development of the
vertebrate musculo-skeletal axis
2) Making muscle in vitro from
embryonic stem cells
Assoc. Professor, Senior Consultant
Section Head, Hematology, Univ. Hospital Lund
Division Head, Stem Cell Center, Univ. of Lund
Lund University Hospital, Hematology
& Lund Stem Cell Center
Lund University BMC B-10
Klinikgatan 26
SE-221 84 Lund SWEDEN
Team leader
Development of muscle and vertebrae
Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular
Biology, University of Strasbourg
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September 3-5, 2014
Tehran-Iran
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Name
Titles
Roger
Pedersen
1) Mechanisms of mesodermal
12.
Jaroslav
Michalek
1. Neuronal reprogramming of T
lymphocytes
fate
&
neuroinflammation
2. Neuronal program death
ligand 1/PD-L1 central in limiting
glioblastoma
Stromal vascular fraction cells in
therapy
of
degenerative
osteoarthritis: a case-control
clinical study.
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Professor
Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative
Medicine, Wellcome Trust-Medical
Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell
Institute, and Department of Surgery,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
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Professor
Group Leader Neuroinflammation unit
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
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MD PhD, president, International
Consortium for Cell Therapy and
Immunotherapy
Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
and CEO, Cellthera, Ltd. (www.cellthera.cz)
2) Directed differentiation and
programming
of
human
pluripotent stem cells into
clinically relevant mesoderm
Shohreh
Issazadeh13. Navikas
14.
differentiation and patterning in
pluripotent mammalian stem
cells
Institute
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September 3-5, 2014
Tehran-Iran
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Gilson Khang
Natural
Polymer
Based
Substrata for Reconstruction of
Corneal Endothelium
15.
Institute
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Professor
TERMIS-AP Continental Chair-Elect
Founding International Fellow TERM
Co-Editor-in-Cheif, Int J Tissue Regen
Dept Head, Dept PolymerNano Sci Tech
Chonbuk Natl Univ Jeonju 561-756 Korea
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Mauro Alini
Endogenous versus exogenous
approach
to
regenerate
intervertebral disc damage
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Vice Director & Head
Musculoskeletal Regeneration Program
AO Research Institute
7270 Davos Platz
Switzerland
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