Confirmed Invited Speakers

Keynote Address - Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD, Baylor College of Medicine HHMI, USA
Anne McLaren Memorial Lecture - Janet Rossant, PhD, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Kari K. Alitalo, MD, PhD, University of Helsinki, Finland
Eduard Batlle, PhD, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Spain
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Spain
Paolo Bianco, MD, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Maria Blasco, PhD, Spanish National Cancer Institute, Spain
Claudio Bordignon, MD, Vito-Salute Sou Roffeeie University, Italy
Marianne Bronner-Fraser, PhD, California Institute of Technology, USA
Margaret Buckingham, DPhil, Pasteur Institute, France
Meinrad Busslinger, PhD, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Austria
Mario R. Capecchi, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute University of Utah, USA
Elena Cattaneo, PhD, University of Milano, Italy
Hans C. Clevers, MD PhD, Hubrecht Laboratory, The Netherlands
Luciano Di Croce, PhD, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain
Tariq Enver, PhD, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Sara Ferber, PhD, Endocrine Institute, Israel
Elaine Fuchs, PhD, Rockefeller University, USA
Fred H. Gage, PhD, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA
Yukiko Gotoh, PhD, University of Tokyo, Japan
Richard Gregory, PhD, Children's Hospital Boston, USA
Harry Heimberg, MD, PhD, Beta Cell Biology Consortium, Belgium
Etienne Hirsch, PhD, French National Institute for Health & Medical Research (INSERM) France
Konrad Hochedlinger, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Mark A. Krasnow, MD PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University, USA
Eric Lander, PhD, Broad Institute, USA
Haifan Lin, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Douglas A. Melton, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA
Olivier Pourquie, PhD, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Allan Spradling, PhD, Carnegie Institute, USA
Azim Surani, PhD, Wellcome Trust & Cancer Research UK Gordon Institute, UK
Elly Tanaka, PhD, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Jane E. Visvader, PhD, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, Kyoto University, Japan
Debbie Yelon, PhD, Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine, USA
Leonard I. Zon, MD, Children’s Hospital Boston, USA

Updated September 4, 2008