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Conference organizers: Deepak Srivastava, MD and Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD
Confirmed Participants
Mick Bhatia, PhD
McMaster Cancer & Stem Cell Biology Research Institute
Helen Blau, PhD
Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Robert Blelloch, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Benoit Bruneau, PhD
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Bruce Conklin, MD
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Kimberly Cordes, PhD
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Natalie Dewitt, PhD
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
John Dimos, PhD
iPierian Inc.
Sheng Ding, PhD
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Steve Finkbeiner, M.D., PhD
Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease
John Gurdon, Kt, DPhil, DSc, FRS
The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
University of Cambridge
Yadong Huang, MD, PhD
Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and UCSF
Melanie Ott, MD, PhD
Gladstone Institute of Virology and UCSF
Kathrin Plath, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine
Renee Reijo Pera, PhD
Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Austin Smith, PhD
Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research
University of Cambridge
Deepak Srivastava, MD
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Lorenz Studer, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Atsushi Suzuki, PhD
Kyushu University
Masayo Takahashi, M.D., PhD
RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology
Marius Wernig, MD, PhD
Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD
Center for iPS Research and Application, Kyoto University and
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease
Richard A. Young, PhD
Whitehead Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panel:
Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD
University of California San Francisco
Mahendra S. Rao, MD, PhD
National Institutes of Health Center for Regenerative Medicine
Beth Seidenberg, MD
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Irving Weissman, MD
Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD
Center for iPS Research and Application, Kyoto University and
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease