Confirmed Invited Speakers

Sir John Gurdon FRS, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, UK, Keynote Address
Rudolf Jaenisch, MD, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA, 2008 Anne McLaren Memorial Lecture
Kathryn Anderson, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Carla Bender Kim, PhD, Children’s Hospital Stem Cell Program, USA
Bradley Bernstein, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Sangeeta N. Bhatia, MD, PhD, MIT, USA
Helen M. Blau, PhD, Stanford University, USA
Dominique Bonnet, PhD, Cancer Research UK London Institute, UK
Hans C. Clevers, MD, PhD, Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands
Connie Eaves, PhD, Terry Fox Laboratory, BC Cancer Agency, Canada
Richard Gilbertson, MD, PhD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
Berthold Gottgens, DPhil, Cambridge University, UK
Thomas Graf, PhD, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain
Linda Griffith, PhD, MIT, USA
Markus Grompe, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Katherine A. High, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
Eran Hornstein, MD, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Craig T. Jordan, PhD, University of Rochester, USA
Gordon M. Keller, PhD, McEwen Center for Regenerative Medicine, Canada
Robb Krumlauf, PhD, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Peter Lansdorp, MD, PhD, BC Cancer Research Centre, Canada
Tsvee Lapidot, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Doug Lauffenburger, PhD, MIT, USA
Ihor R. Lemischka, PhD, Mt Sinai Medical Center, USA
Linheng Li, PhD, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Judi Lieberman, MD, PhD, The CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, USA
Olle Lindvall, MD, PhD, University of Lund, Sweden
Angela McNab, UK Dept of Health, UK
Douglas A. Melton, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Christine L. Mummery, PhD, Hubrecht Laboratory, The Netherlands
Hiromitsu Nakauchi, MD, PhD, University of Tokyo, Japan
Shin-Ichi Nishikawa, MD, PhD, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Japan
Hitoshi Niwa, MD, PhD, CDB RIKEN, Japan
Mark Noble, PhD, University of Rochester, USA
Michel C. Nussenzweig, MD, PhD, HHMI/Rockefeller University, USA
Roger K. Patient, PhD, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, UK
Thomas A. Rando, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
Wolf Reik, MD, PhD, The Babraham Institute, UK
Elizabeth Robertson, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Janet Rossant, PhD, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Mitinori Saitou, MD, PhD, CDB RIKEN, Japan
Charles J. Sherr, MD, PhD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
M. Celeste Simon, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA
Alok Srivastava, MD, FRACP, Christian Medical College, India
Toshio Suda, MD, Keio University, Japan
Jeremy Sugarman, MD, Berman Inst. of Bioethics and Dept. of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, USA
Sally Temple, PhD, New York Neural Stem Cell Institute, USA
Nobuko Uchida, PhD, Stem Cells Inc., USA
Amy Wagers, PhD, Joslin Diabetes Center, USA
Fiona M. Watt, DPhil, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, UK
Ron Weiss, PhD, Princeton University, USA
Irving L. Weissman, MD, Stanford University, USA
Anthony Whetton, MD, University of Manchester, UK
Owen N. Witte, MD, UCLA/Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, Kyoto University, Japan
Kenneth S. Zaret, PhD, Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA

Updated May 27, 2008