Presented by The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine

The 4th Annual Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa was an exclusive, one-day symposium which drew together the pioneers responsible for advancing research towards discovering cures for debilitating diseases and injuries. This one-day event featured renowned researchers...

The Harvard Stem Cell Institute marked its fifth anniversary in 2009. These conversations took place during the HSCI Stem Cell Symposium at the Harvard Club on November 6, 2009.

A Paul F. Glenn Symposium on the Biology of Aging
Four Seasons Biltmore
Santa Barbara, California
June 13 – 15

A world-renowned meeting that examines the imminent scientific, ethical and translational challenges facing stem cell research today

A world-renowned meeting that examines the imminent scientific, ethical and translational challenges facing stem cell research today

• Ethics,
• Regulation,
• Stem Cells

The Days of Molecular Medicine Forum, hosted by Roger Bingham, focuses on “Regulatory and Ethical Issues on the Use of Stem Cells: An...

• Biology,
• Ethics,
• Stem Cells

Welcome and introduction to the Basic Science panel

• Germ Line,
• Human Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Richard Scofield,
• Stem Cell Niche Hypothesis,
• Stem Cells

The Role of the Stem Cell Microenvironment in Regulating Stem Cell Behavior.

• Cardiac Differentiation,
• Embryology,
• Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Gene Expression,
• Heart Development,
• Human Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Stem Cell Differentiation,
• Stem Cells

Embryology-Based Strategies for Cardiac Differentiation of ES Cells

• Regeneration,
• Stem Cells,
• Vertebrate Regeneration

Deconstructing Vertebrate Regeneration

• Cancer,
• Cancer Stem Cells,
• Evolution,
• Leading Cause of Death,
• Oncology,
• Stem Cells

Cancer Stem Cell Research: From Bench to Bedside and Back

• Human Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Human Stem Cell Core Facility,
• Stem Cells,
• Technologies Panel,
• UCSD

Technologies Panel. UCSD Human Stem Cell Core Facility

• Human Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Modulation,
• Neurogenesis,
• Neurology,
• Osteoblasts,
• Regeneration,
• Stem Cells

Chemical and Functional Genomic Approaches Toward Regeneration

• Human Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Neurology,
• Stem Cells

Development of Functional Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Neurons in Mouse Brain

• Differentiation,
• Human Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Markers,
• Morphology,
• Stem Cells,
• Transplants

Morphology of Undifferentiated hESCs in Culture

• Burnham Institute,
• Differentiation,
• Human Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Interaction,
• Migration,
• Stem Cells

Embryoid Body Cell Migration/Interaction Models: Toward Automatic Cell-by-Cell Tracking

• Burnham Institute,
• CIRM,
• Investment,
• Proposition 71,
• San Diego,
• Stem Cells

Moderator: Roger BinghamState Senator Christine KehoeZach Hall, CIRMRobert Klein, CIRMJohn Moores, JMIMalin Burnham, Burnham Companies

• Egg Donation,
• Ethical Issues,
• Ethics,
• Human Embryonic Stem Cells,
• In Vitro Fertilization,
• Stem Cells

Clinical and Ethical Perspectives

• Association for Reproductive Medicine,
• Human Subjects,
• Informed Consent,
• Institutional Review Boards,
• Perspectives,
• Regulation,
• Stem Cells

Clinical and Ethical Perspectives

• Egg Donation,
• Human Embryonic Stem Cells,
• In Vitro Fertilization,
• Parents,
• Stem Cells

IVF in Intended Parents and Egg Donors: What Does This Mean?

• Cancer,
• Stem Cells

Technologies

• Nervous System,
• Receptor,
• Stem Cells,
• Technology

Technologies

• Neural Differentiation,
• Neural Induction,
• Retinoic Acid,
• Stem Cells

This is Your Brain on Politics

• Bioethics,
• Communication,
• Engaging the Public,
• Global Warming,
• Science Communication,
• Stem Cells,
• politics,
• science literacy

Sheril Kirshenbaum is co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future with Chris Mooney describing the growing...

Harvard Stem Cell Institute

• Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine,
• Heart Transplant,
• Stem Cells

Humans as Model Organisms - Regenerative Mesa Medicine: Human, Human and Human

UC San Diego

• Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine,
• Stem Cells

Introduction to the Cardiovascular Session

UC San Diego

• Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine,
• Epicardial Progenitors,
• Epigenetics,
• Stem Cells

Epicardial Progenitors: Cells for Cardiac Repair/Regeneration?

Stanford University

• Cardiac Imaging,
• Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine,
• Stem Cells

Clinical hurdles in stem cell therapy for heart disease: the role of cardiac imaging

Roger Bingham, Anthony DeMaria, Kenneth Chien

• Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine,
• Patient Registries,
• Phenotyping,
• Stem Cells

Burnham Institute for Regenerative Medicine

• Cardiomyocytes,
• Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine,
• Human Biology,
• Stem Cells

The chemical biology of stem cell cardiogenesis

The Scripps Research Institute

• Brain,
• Neurodegenerative Disorders,
• Stem Cells

Introduction to Neurodegenerative Session

UC San Diego

• Alzheimer's,
• Brain,
• Neurodegenerative Disorders,
• Stem Cells

Alzheimer's Disease

The Scripps Research Institute

• Neurodegenerative Disorders,
• Olfactory System,
• Stem Cells

Generating cell lines from post-mitotic neurons

UCLA

• Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Neurodegenerative Disorders,
• Stem Cells

Building novel neurological disease models using human ES cell-derived neurons

Floyd Bloom, Larry Goldstein, Kristin Baldwin, Yi Sun

• Neurodegenerative Disorders,
• Stem Cells

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

• CIRM,
• Cancer,
• Stem Cells,
• Transcription Factors

Special Address by the CEO of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Burnham Institute for Regenerative Medicine

• Diabetes,
• Glucose,
• Insulin,
• Obesity,
• Pancreas,
• Stem Cells

Introduction to Diabetes Session

University of Cincinnati

• Diabetes,
• Pancreas,
• Stem Cells,
• Translational Embryology

Translational embryology and Diabetes

UCLA

• Beta Cells,
• Diabetes,
• Embryogenesis,
• Stem Cell Differentiation,
• Stem Cells

Beta cell replication in adults

Novocell, Inc.

• Beta Cells,
• Cell Therapy,
• Diabetes,
• Human Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Insulin,
• Stem Cells

Engineering hESC to Create a Cell Therapy to Treat Insulin Requiring Diabetics

Fred Levine, Jason Wells, Anil Bhushan, Anne Bang

• Diabetes,
• Human Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Stem Cells

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

• Cancer,
• Stem Cells

Introduction to Cancer Session

UC San Diego

• Achilles,
• Cancer,
• Leukemia,
• Molecular Evolution,
• Oncology,
• Stem Cells

The Molecular Evolution of Leukemic Stem Cells

UCLA

• Cancer,
• Hematopoietic Stem Cells,
• Leukemia,
• Oncology,
• Stem Cells

Defining and recreating the niche for hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

• Cancer,
• Glioblastoma,
• Oncology,
• Stem Cells,
• genetics

Glioblastoma: The terminator

Inder Verma, Catriona Jamieson, Hanna Mikkola

• Cancer,
• Oncology,
• Stem Cells

Alan Trounson, Neil Gibson, Stephen Laderman, Catriona Jamieson, Joydeep Goswami

• Cancer,
• Diabetes,
• Industry,
• Invitrogen,
• Pfiser,
• Stem Cells

Roger Bingham, Mary Anne Fox, Joydeep Goswami

• Proposition 71,
• Salk Institute,
• Stem Cells,
• UCSD

Evan Snyder

• Chromatin,
• DNA,
• DNA Structure,
• Differentiation,
• Epigenetics,
• Gene Expression,
• Methylation,
• Stem Cells,
• Transcription

Joel Gottesfeld

• Disease,
• Epigenetics,
• Friedreich's Ataxia,
• Neurodegenerative Disorders,
• Stem Cells,
• Therapeutical Applications of Stem Cells,
• Transcription

Siavash Kurdistani

• Cancer,
• Cancer Development,
• Chromatin,
• DNA,
• Differentiation,
• Epigenetics,
• Linker Histones,
• Stem Cells

Ryan Lister

• DNA,
• DNA Methylation,
• Differentiation,
• Epigenetics,
• Hematopoeietic Stem Cells,
• San Diego Epigenome Center,
• Sequencing,
• Stem Cells,
• genome,
• mC

Kristin Baldwin

• Fibroblasts,
• RNA,
• Reprogramming,
• Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer,
• Stem Cells,
• Totipotency,
• iPS

Richard Gregory

• Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Proliferation,
• RNA,
• Stem Cell Mechanisms,
• Stem Cells,
• Translation,
• microRNA biogenesis

Jeanne Loring

• DNA,
• DNA Methylation,
• Microarray,
• Multipotent,
• Pluripotent,
• RNA,
• Stem Cells,
• Subcellular Systems Biology,
• biomarkers

Floyd Bloom, Kristin Baldwin, Richard Gregory and Jeanne Loring

• Cell Types,
• DNA Methylation,
• Differentiation,
• Human Stem Cells,
• Methylation,
• RNA,
• Stem Cells,
• mRNA,
• microRNA

David Brenner

• CIRM,
• Degenerative Disease,
• Future of Stem Cell Research,
• Regenerative Medicine,
• Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine,
• Stem Cells

Catriona Jamieson

• Cancer,
• Cancer Stem Cells,
• Clinical Trials,
• MON,
• Myeloproliferative Neoplasm,
• Progenitor Cells,
• Proliferation,
• Stem Cells

Wendy Levin

• Breast Cancer,
• Cancer,
• Cancer Stem Cells,
• Hedgehog Pathway,
• Leukemia,
• Phenotype,
• Radiation,
• Stem Cells,
• Tumors

John Reed

• Chemical Library Screening,
• ESC Screen,
• Embryonic Stem Cells,
• Manipulating Stem Cells,
• Regenerative Medicine,
• Stem Cells,
• iPS Cells

Patricia Churchland

• Abortion,
• Church,
• Ethics,
• God's Intent,
• History of Science,
• Medical Technology,
• Opposition,
• Public Response to Science,
• Smallpox,
• Stem Cells,
• religion

Books by Patricia Churchland: Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality Brain-Wise: Studies in...

Catriona Jamieson, Wendy Levin, John Reed and Patricia Churchland

• Francis Bacon,
• Opposition,
• Religion and Science,
• Science Communication,
• Scientific Advances,
• Scientific Hypotheses,
• Stem Cells,
• religion,
• science literacy

Books by Patricia Churchland: Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality Brain-Wise: Studies in...

Alan Trounson

• CIRM,
• Genetic Engineering,
• ICAC,
• Retroviral Induction,
• Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer,
• Stability,
• Stem Cells,
• Transduction,
• iPS Cells

Lawrence Goldstein

• Alzheimer's Disease,
• Amyloid Plaques,
• Disease Model,
• Fibroblasts,
• Neurons,
• Stem Cells,
• fad iPS Cells,
• iPS Cells

Roel Nusse

• Epiblast Stem Cells,
• Gene Expression,
• Self Renewal,
• Stem Cells,
• Target Genes,
• Wnt Pathway,
• genetics,
• iPS Cells

Alan Trounson, Kristen Brennand, Lawrence Goldstein and Roel Nusse

• Degenerative Disease,
• Diagnostics,
• Disease Prediction,
• Gene Expression,
• Phenotype,
• Stem Cells,
• Therapeutic Application of Stem Cells,
• iPS Cells

Stephen Laderman and Roger Bingham

• Agilent,
• DNA,
• Stem Cells

A Conversation with Amy Wagers

• Aging,
• Disease,
• Regenerative Medicine,
• Stem Cells,
• iPS Cells,
• metabolism

Amy Wagers is Principal Investigator in the section on Developmental and Stem Cell Biology at Joslin Diabetes Center and Assistant Professor in the...

A conversation with Kenneth Chien

• Ethics,
• Immunology,
• Regenerative Medicine,
• Stem Cells,
• Transplantation,
• iPS Cells

Kenneth Chien is the Director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor in the Department of Cell...

A Conversation with Doug Melton

• Mechanism,
• Stem Cells,
• Treatment,
• Type 1 Diabetes,
• iPS Cells

Doug Melton is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor in the Department of Natural Sciences at Harvard University and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes...

A conversation with George Daley

• CIRM,
• Disease,
• Ethics,
• Reprogramming,
• Stem Cells,
• iPS Stem Cells

George Daley is Samuel E Lux, IV Chair in the Department of Hematology, Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, Molecular Pharmacology and of...

Harvard Stem Cell Institute Panel

• Diabetes,
• Regenerative Medicine,
• Stem Cells,
• Treatment,
• iPS Cells

This panel was made up of  Kenneth Zaret, Douglas Melton, E. Edward Baetge, Jacob Hanna,Armand Keating and Jonathan Graff, and moderated by Amy...

Changing life as we know it

• Aging,
• Awards,
• Biology,
• Disease,
• Economy,
• Global Health,
• Public Policy,
• Robotics,
• Science in Media,
• Social Interaction,
• Stem Cells,
• Technology,
• Women,
• language,
• science

A discussion about the consequences of prolonging life and the enhanced human brain/ computer interface. Books by Patricia Churchland: ...

Newcastle University

• Aging,
• Damaged Cells,
• Death,
• Life expectancy,
• Maintenance,
• Mechanisms,
• Medical Advances,
• Mortality,
• Nature,
• Repair,
• Stem Cells,
• Systems Biology,
• genetics

Tom Kirkwood is the Director of the Institute for Ageing and Health at Newcastle University. His research is focused on evolution and genetics of...

Sleep Aging

• Aging,
• Calorie Restriction,
• Drosophila,
• Functional Senescence,
• Immune system,
• Life span,
• Restoration,
• Stem Cells,
• sleep

Paul Shaw is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. His research is...

• Aging,
• Caloric restriction,
• Diet,
• Drosophila,
• Obesity,
• Stem Cells,
• TOR,
• Technology,
• sleep

Marc Tatar is a Professor of Biology at Brown University. His research is focused on understanding the genetics, mechanisms and the evolution of...

• Aging,
• Biochemistry,
• C. Elegans,
• Caloric restriction,
• Central Nervous System,
• Development,
• Fasting,
• Stem Cells

Shilpi Khare is a Ph.D. student in the lab of Steven Clarke. She is studying the effects of oxidative stress of protein- repair deficient worms and...

Congratulations to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka on winning the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine

• Stem Cells,
• cloning

John Gurdon is a Distinguished Group Leader and an Emeritus Professor in the Zoology Department at Cambridge University. He is a Foreign Associate of...

From Roger Bingham and Alaine Maxwell

• Stem Cells

With an Introduction by Alan Trounson

• Stem Cells

John Gurdon is a Distinguished Group Leader and an Emeritus Professor in the Zoology Department at Cambridge University. He is a Foreign Associate of...

Introduction by Evan Snyder, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

• Stem Cells

Evan Snyder was recruited to the Burnham Institute for Medical Research as Professor and Director of the Program in Stem Cell & Regenerative...

University of California, San Diego

• Stem Cells

Mason Israel is a Graduate Student in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Goldstein Lab at the University of California, San Diego. His research is...

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

• Stem Cells

Ilyas Singec is a Staff Scientist and Director for Cell Reprogramming at the Burnham Institute's Stem Cell Center. His research is focused on using...

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

• Stem Cells

Jeff Price is an Associate Professor and a member of the Signal Transduction and Stem Cells and Regeneration Research Programs at the Sanford Burnham...

Introduction by Catrionia Jamieson, Moores UC San Diego Cancer Center

• Stem Cells

Catriona Jamieson is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Hematologic Malignancies Program at the University of California, San Diego. Her...

University of California, San Diego

• Stem Cells

Alysson Muotri is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Cancer Biology Program at the University of California, San Diego. His research is...

University of California, San Diego

• Stem Cells

Tannishtha Reya is an Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke University Medical Center. Her research is focused on...

Salk Institute

• Stem Cells

Inder Verma is a Professor and Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science in the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute for...

Scripps Research Institute

• Stem Cells

Peter Schultz is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute. His research is focused on combining the tools and...

University of California, San Diego

• Stem Cells

Louise Laurent is an Assistant Professor of Genomics of human embryonic stem cells in the Department of Reproductive Medicine at the University of...

Salk Institute

• Stem Cells

Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte is a Professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. His focused on how...

Agilent Technologies

• Stem Cells

Laurakay Bruhn is a Project Manager of the Biomedical Assays Group for Molecular Diagnostics at Agilent Technologies. Her research is focused on...

J. Craig Venter Institute

• Stem Cells

J. Craig Venter is the Founder, Chairman and President of the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) a not-for-profit research and support organization...

Salk Institute

• Stem Cells

Fred “Rusty” Gage is a Professor and Vi and John Adler Chair for Research on Age- Related Neurodegenerative Diseases in the Laboratory of...

Disease in a dish - Will it translate?

• Stem Cells

Panelists:  Fred "Rusty" Gage, Salk Institute Mason Israel, UC San Diego Jeff Price, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research...

Cancer and Stem Cell Degenerative Disorders - Are there common themes?

• Stem Cells

Panelists: Alysson Muotri, UC San Diego Tannishtha Reya, UC San Diego Inder Verma, Salk Institute Panel Chair: Catrionia Jamieson, Moores UC San...

• Stem Cells

Panelists: Dani Grady, Thriving Concepts, Michael Kalichman, UC San Diego Lorraine Stiehl, California Institute for Regenerative...

Differentiation of Human Embryonic and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells - Can it be controlled?

• Stem Cells

with Roger Bingham

• Stem Cells

with Jonathan Thomas

• Stem Cells

Dr. Thomas majored in biology and history at Yale, where he graduated summa cum laude. As a George C. Marshall Scholar at Oxford, he then earned a...

Rudolf Jaenisch, Keynote

• Stem Cells

Dr. Jaenisch received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Munich in 1967. Before Whitehead, he was head of the Department of Tumor...

Edward Holmes, Martin Friedlander, Fred Gage, Lawrence Goldstein, Evan Snyder

• Stem Cells

Edward Holmes: Dr. Holmes received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the executive deputy chairman of the Biomedical Research...

Introduction by Jeanne Loring, Center for Regenerative Medicine

• Stem Cells

Dr. Loring was co-director of one of the first NIH-supported human embryonic stem cells centers at SBMRI, prior to joining TSRI. Earlier in her...

Getting There – Translating the Science of Stem Cells

• Stem Cells

Dr. Gregory has served as chief scientific officer of Sangamo since July 2009 and vice president, research since October 2005. He joined Sangamo in...

Getting There – Translating the Science of Stem Cells

• Stem Cells

Dr. Piper received his B.S. in biophysics and B.A. in biochemistry from the University of Illinois before earning his Ph.D. in neuroscience at the...

Getting There – Translating the Science of Stem Cells

• Stem Cells

Dr. Rao is internationally renowned for his research involving human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and other somatic stem cells. He has worked in the...

Getting There – Translating the Science of Stem Cells

• Stem Cells

Jeanne Loring: Dr. Loring was co-director of one of the first NIH-supported human embryonic stem cells centers at SBMRI, prior to joining TSRI....

Introduction by Patricia Olson, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)

• Stem Cells

Dr. Olson is responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of the research funding program of CIRM. She is a former vice president...

CIRM Disease Team Reports

• Stem Cells

Dr. Carson earned his medical degree from Columbia University and received postgraduate training at The Salk Institute, NIH and UC San Diego. He has...

CIRM Disease Team Reports

• Stem Cells

Dr. Marsala has developed and characterized several models of spinal traumatic and ischemic injury and brain ischemia models using rodents and...

CIRM Disease Team Reports

• Stem Cells

Dr. Robins received a B.S. with honors in biochemistry and a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Adelaide in Australia. He followed his...

CIRM Disease Team Reports

• Stem Cells

Dr. Verma received his Ph.D. from Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, in 1971. He continued his postdoctoral training with David...

CIRM Disease Team Reports

• Stem Cells

Patricia Olson: Dr. Olson is responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of the research funding program of CIRM. She is a former...

Introduction by Catriona Jamieson, Moores UC San Diego Cancer Center

• Stem Cells

Dr. Jamieson received her BS.c. in biology (genetics), Ph.D. in microbiology and M.D. from the University of British Columbia. After completing a...

Stem Cells in Clinical Trials

• Stem Cells

Dr. Boulis is a physician scientist whose research interests include biological neurorestoration and neuromodulation through the use of cell, protein...

Stem Cells in Clinical Trials

• Stem Cells

Dr. Deans holds degrees from MIT and the University of Michigan, and conducted his postdoctoral training in molecular immunology at UCLA. He is...

Stem Cells in Clinical Trials

• Stem Cells

Dr. Schwartz’ primary areas of research include early diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), diabetic...

Stem Cells in Clinical Trials

• Stem Cells

Catriona Jamieson: Dr. Jamieson received her BS.c. in biology (genetics), Ph.D. in microbiology and M.D. from the University of British Columbia....

Sir Ian Wilmut, Keynote

• Stem Cells

Dr. Wilmut obtained a B.Sc. in agricultural science at the University of Nottingham before studying at the University of Cambridge, where he was...

with Roger Bingham

• Stem Cells

Roger Bingham is Co-founder and Director of The Science Network, an Affiliate of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for...

with Alan Trounson

• Stem Cells

Alan Trounson was appointed president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in 2008 and is responsible for the management of the $3...

Cancer and Cancer Stem Cells

• Cancer,
• Stem Cells

 Luke Lairson received a B.Sc. in biochemistry from the University of Guelph, prior to completing a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of...

Cancer and Cancer Stem Cells

• Cancer,
• Stem Cells

Ben Spike is a senior research associate in the laboratory of Dr. Geoffrey M. Wahl at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies. He is currently...

Cancer and Cancer Stem Cells

• Cancer,
• Stem Cells

Catriona Jamieson studies the mutant stem cells and progenitor cells in myeloproliferative neoplasms, cells that can give rise to cancer stem cells....

Stem Cells in Development and Disease

• Stem Cells,
• audition

Ulrich Mueller has been with the Scripps Research Institute since 2003 and prior to that he was at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel,...

Stem Cells in Development and Disease

• Parkinson's,
• Stem Cells

Birgitt Schuele joined The Parkinson’s Institute in 2005. She and her team are developing a new model of “Parkinson’s disease in a...

Stem Cells in Development and Disease

• Development,
• Stem Cells

Kristin Baldwin is an associate professor of cell biology and an investigator of the Dorris Neuroscience Institute at the Scripps Research Institute....

Stem Cells in Development and Disease

• Development,
• Disease,
• Stem Cells

Kristin Baldwin is an associate professor of cell biology and an investigator of the Dorris Neuroscience Institute at the Scripps Research Institute....

Technology and Genomic Integrity

• Stem Cells

Roger Lasken has been a professor at the J. Craig Venter Institute since 2006. He and his group have investigated MDA reaction mechanisms and...

Technology and Genomic Integrity

• Stem Cells

Kun Zhang joined the UC San Diego Department of Bioengineering in 2007 and is currently associate professor of bioengineering. His current group is...

Tissue Engineering and Extracellular Influences

• Stem Cells

David Schaffer joined UC Berkeley in 1999 and is currently professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, bioengineering, and neuroscience at UC...

Tissue Engineering and Extracellular Influences

• Stem Cells

Darryl D'Lima currently serves as director of orthopedic research at Scripps Clinic. His major research interests include biomechanics of the hip and...

Tissue Engineering and Extracellular Influences

• Stem Cells

Alessandra Sacco joined the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in 2010. Her laboratory is interested in understanding the molecular...

Tissue Engineering and Extracellular Influences

• Stem Cells

Adam Engler is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UC San Diego as well as a resident scientist at the Sanford Consortium...

Guy Sauvageau, Keynote

• Stem Cells

Guy Sauvageau is the chief executive officer and founding scientific director of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) in...

A conversation with Michele DeLuca

• Stem Cells

Michele De Luca is full professor of biochemistry, director, Centre for Regenerative Medicine and Interdepartmental Centre for Stem Cells and...

A conversation with Robert Wechsler-Reya

• Stem Cells

Robert Wechsler-Reya joined Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute in 2010. His research focuses on the signals that control growth and...

A conversation with Alan Trounson

• Stem Cells

Alan Trounson was appointed president of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in 2008 and is responsible for the management of the $3...

A conversation with Karen Christman

• Stem Cells

Karen Christman is currently assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering and a member of the Institute of Engineering and Medicine at UC...

A conversation with Guy Sauvageau

• Stem Cells

Guy Sauvageau is the chief executive officer and founding scientific director of the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) in...

A conversation with Vanessa Hayes

• Stem Cells

Vanessa Hayes is professor of genomic medicine at the J. Craig Venter Institute in San Diego. Her research interest is in defining the extent of...

Roger Bingham

• Stem Cells

Co-founder & Director, The Science Network; Member, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Member,...

Ann Tsukamoto

• Stem Cells

EVP, Scientific & Strategic Alliances, StemCells, Inc. 

Eros Lazzerini Denchi, Panel I: Stem Cells and Aging

• Aging,
• Stem Cells,
• telomeres

Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute

Irina Conboy, Panel I: Stem Cells and Aging

• Aging,
• Stem Cells

Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC Berkeley 

Lawrence Goldstein, Panel I: Stem Cells and Aging

• Aging,
• Alzheimer's Disease,
• Stem Cells

Distinguished Professor, Departments of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Neurosciences; Director, UC San Diego Stem Cell Program; Scientific...

Adam Engler, Panel I: Stem Cells and Aging

• Aging,
• Stem Cells,
• muscular dystrophy

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego

Adam Engler, Irina Conboy, Eros Lazzerini Denchi, Lawrence Goldstein

• Aging,
• Stem Cells

Luke Lairson, Panel II: Drug discovery and endogenous stem cells

• Stem Cells,
• drug discovery,
• multiple sclerosis

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute; Principal Investigator, California Institute for Biomedical Research

Jay Schneider, Panel II: Drug discovery and endogenous stem cells

• Stem Cells,
• drug discovery

Associate Professor, Internal Medicine; Dallas Heart Ball Chair in Cardiac Research, UT Southwestern Medical Center

Shoutian Zhu, Panel II: Drug discovery and endogenous stem cells

• Stem Cells,
• drug discovery

Principal Investigator, California Institute for Biomedical Research 

Sendurai Mani, Panel II: Drug discovery and endogenous stem cells

• Stem Cells,
• drug discovery

Associate Professor, Department of Translational Molecular Pathology; Co-Director, Metastasis Research Center, The University of Texas MD Anderson...

Eric Ahrens, Panel III: Tracking stem cells using in vivo imaging

• Stem Cells,
• in vivo imaging

Professor of Radiology, Director of Stem Cell Molecular Imaging, UC San Diego

Christopher Contag, Panel III: Tracking stem cells using in vivo imaging

• Stem Cells,
• in vivo imaging

Professor of Pediatrics, Radiology, and Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University

Fred Gage, Panel IV: Disease modeling

• Stem Cells

Adler Professor, Laboratory of Genetics; Vi and John Adler Chair for Research on Age-Related Neurodegenerative Disease, Salk Institute for Biological...

Robert Kass, Panel IV: Disease modeling

• Stem Cells

Vice Dean for Research, Alumni and Hosack Professor of Pharmacology & Chair; Columbia University Medical Center

Winner Beatriz Freitas, Presented by Lawrence Goldstein and Sylvia Evans

• Stem Cells

Winner: Beatriz Freitas, Postdoctoral Fellow with Alysson Muotri, UCSDPresenters: Sylvia Evans, Professor, Skaggs School of...

Eric Ahrens

• Stem Cells,
• in vivo imaging

Eric Ahrens discusses transition from the physical sciences to the biological sciences and his work adapting MRI to track groups of cells, e.g. stem...

Mark Mercola, Panel IV: Disease modeling

• Stem Cells,
• drug discovery

 Mark Mercola is Professor of Department of Bioengineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego and the Professor and Director of...

Robert Kass and Mark Mercola

• Drug Screening,
• Stem Cells,
• long QT syndrome

Mark Mercola and Robert Kass discuss their collaborative work screening existing drugs to treat long QT syndrome. Their collaboration combines Dr....

C. Randal Mills

• Stem Cells

C. Randal Mills, Ph.D., President & CEO, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)As a strong advocate for patients throughout his...

Laura Niklason

• Stem Cells

Laura Niklason, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Anesthesiology & Biomedical Engineering, Yale University; Founder, HumacyteDr. Niklason’s...

Shaochen Chen, Panel I: Engineering Microenvironments for Stem Cells

• Stem Cells

Shaochen Chen, Ph.D., Professor, NanoEngineering & Bioengineering; Co-Director, Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering Center, UC San DiegoDr....

Roger Bingham

• Stem Cells

Roger Bingham, Co-Founder & Director, The Science Network; Member, Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological...

Adam Engler, Panel I: Engineering Microenvironments for Stem Cells

• Stem Cells

Adam Engler, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC San DiegoDr. Engler is a resident scientist at the Sanford Consortium for...

Sharon Presnell, Panel I: Engineering Microenvironments for Stem Cells

• Stem Cells

Sharon Presnell, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer & EVP of Research & Development, OrganovoDr. Presnell has more than 16 years of experience...

Karen Christman, Shaochen Chen, Adam Engler, Sharon Presnell

• Stem Cells

Karen Christman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Bioengineering, UC San DiegoDr. Christman joined the Department of Bioengineering in 2007 and is a...

Lawrence Goldstein, Kevin D’Amour, Robert Henry, Martin Marsala, Joseph Ciacci, Thomas Kipps, Catriona Jamieson, Panel II

• Stem Cells

Lawrence Goldstein, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Departments of Cellular, Molecular Medicine & Neurosciences; Director, Sanford Stem Cell...

Alysson Muotri, Panel III: Epigenetics & Stem Cells In Development & Regenerative

• Stem Cells

Alysson Muotri, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics/Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UC San DiegoDr. Muotri moved to the Salk...

Allen Wang, Panel III: Epigenetics & Stem Cells In Development & Regenerative Medicine

• Stem Cells

Allen Wang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, UC San DiegoDr. Wang is a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) postdoctoral...

Pier Lorenzo Puri, Panel III: Epigenetics & Stem Cells In Development & Regenerative Medicine

• Stem Cells

Pier Lorenzo Puri, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Development, Aging & Regeneration Program, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research...

A conversation with Laura Niklason

• Stem Cells,
• tissue engineering

Laura Niklason discussion how bioengineering collaborations are getting basic science to the clinic and Niklason's lifelong interest in changing the...

Michael Boland, Panel III: Epigenetics & Stem Cells In Development & Regenerative Medicine

• Stem Cells

Michael Boland, Ph.D., Research Associate, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)Dr. Boland began his postdoctoral studies in Kristin Baldwin’s...

Joseph Wu, Panel IV: Modeling Human Disease

• Stem Cells

Joseph Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute; Professor, Department of Medicine (Cardiology) & Radiology, Stanford...

Juan-Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Panel IV: Modeling Human Disease

• Stem Cells

Juan-Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Ph.D., Professor, Gene Expression Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological StudiesDr. Izpisua Belmonte’s area of...

Inder Verma, Panel IV: Modeling Human Disease

• Stem Cells

Inder Verma, Ph.D., Irwin & Joan Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science, American Cancer Society Professor Molecular Biology, Laboratory of...

Evan Snyder, Joseph Wu, Juan-Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, Inder Verma

• Stem Cells

Evan Snyder, M.D., Ph.D., Professor & Program Director, Center for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, Sanford Burnham Medical Research...

Thomas Rando

• Stem Cells

Thomas Rando, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging, Stanford University School of MedicineDr. Rando’s research concerns...