Highlighted below are the 2019 Featured Speakers, including keynote lecturers, named lecturers, and award winners, as well as invited speakers for our Plenary and Concurrent Sessions.
Featured Speakers
Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, Center for iPS Cell Research & Application, Kyoto University, Japan and Gladstone Institutes, USA
Keynote Address
Andrew Plump, MD, PhD, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., USA
John McNeish Memorial Lecture
Allan Spradling,
Anne McLaren Memorial Lecture
Lorenz Studer, MD, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, USA
Ernest McCulloch Memorial Lecture
Presidential Symposium
John Gurdon, FRS, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Keynote Address
Paola Arlotta,
Hans C. Clevers, MD, PhD, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
Award Lectures
Scott Armstrong, MD,
ISSCR Tobias Award Lecture
John Dick,
ISSCR Award for Innovation
Barbara Treutlein,
Dr. Susan Lim Award for Outstanding Young Investigator
Plenary Sessions and Speakers
Pluripotency and Germ Cells
- Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, PhD, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, USA
- Clodagh O'Shea, PhD, The Salk Institute, USA
- Austin G. Smith, PhD, FRS, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Mechanisms and Applications of Mesodermal Tissues I
- Golnaz Vahedi, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Hannah Mikkola, MD, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Ryuichi Nishinakamura, MD, PhD, Kumamoto University, Japan
- Irving L. Weissman, MD, Stanford University, USA
Stem Cells and Regeneration of Endodermal Organs
- Sangeeta N. Bhatia, MD PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Markus Grompe, MD, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
- Nan Tang, PhD, National Institute of Biological Sciences, China
- James M. Wells, PhD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, USA
Mechanisms and Applications of Mesodermal Tissues II
- Peter Carmeliet, MD, PhD, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, Belgium
- Denis Duboule, PhD, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Switzerland
- Charles Murry, MD, PhD, University of Washington, USA
From Bench to Bedside: Surface Ectoderm and Endocrine Organs
- Ting Chen, PhD, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China
- Hiromitsu Nakauchi, MD, PhD, University of Tokyo, Japan
- Anthony Oro, MD, PhD, Stanford University, USA
- Felicia Pagliuca, PhD, Semma Therapeutics, USA
Basics and Translation: Neural Ectoderm
- Kristin K. Baldwin, PhD, Scripps Research Institute, USA
- Claude Desplan, PhD, New York University, USA
- Sally Temple, PhD, Neural Stem Cell Institute, USA
Concurrent Sessions and Speakers
Developmental Principles for Stem Cells
- Shaorong Gao, PhD, Tongji University, China
- Olivier Pourquié, PhD, Harvard University/Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Engineering Tissues and Organs
- Takanori Takebe, MD, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center, USA and Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
- Valerie Weaver, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Epigenetic Regulation of Cell Identity
- Wei Xie, PhD, Tsinghua University, China
- Ibrahim Cissé, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Inflammation and Microbiome
- Frederic Geissmann, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
- Shruti Naik, PhD, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Lineage Choice and Asymmetric Cell Division
- Haifan Lin, PhD, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
- Yukiko Yamashita, PhD, University of Michigan, USA
Mechanisms of Pluripotency and iPS cell Reprogramming
- Sally Lowell, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Hitoshi Niwa, MD, PhD, Kumamoto University, Japan
Mechanisms of Transdifferentiation
- Thomas Graf, PhD, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, Spain
- Jongpil Kim, PhD, Dongguk University, Korea
Molecular and Cellular Dynamics
- Sebastian Jessberger, MD, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Cristina Lo Celso, PhD, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Non-mammalian Model Organisms for Stem Cell Biology
- Jenna Galloway, PhD, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
- Jessica Whited, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Organoid Models
- Frederic de Sauvage, PhD, Genentech, Inc, USA
- Emma Rawlins, PhD, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Road to the Clinic
- Koji Eto, MD, PhD, Center for IPS Cell Research and Application (CIRA), Kyoto University, Japan
- Mark Humayun, MD, PhD, Keck School of Medicine of USC, USA
Stem Cell Aging
- Salvador Aznar Benitah, PhD, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Spain
- Pura Muñoz-Cánoves, PhD, Pompeu Fabra University, ICREA and CNIC, Spain
Stem Cell Ethics
- Henry Greely, JD, Stanford Law School, USA
- Marianne Hamilton Lopez, PhD, MPA, Duke University, USA
- Douglas Sipp, BA, Riken Center for Developmental Biology, Japan
Stem Cell Heterogeneity
- Kathrin Plath, PhD, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, USA
- Bennett Novitch, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, USA
Stem Cell Metabolism
- Joshua M. Brickman, PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Weiping Han, PhD, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, Singapore
Stem Cell Niches
- Paul S. Frenette, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
- Kim B. Jensen, PhD, BRIC - Biotech Research & Innovation Centre, Denmark
Stem Cell-Based Disease Modeling
- Sandra J. Engle, PhD, Biogen, USA
- Arnold R. Kriegstein, MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco, USA
Stem Cells and Cancer
- Eduard Batlle, PhD, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, IRB Barcelona, Spain
- Dominique Bonnet, PhD, The Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom
Tissue Regeneration and Homeostasis
- Fabio Rossi, MD, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Michal Shoshkes Carmel, PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Tools to Interrogate Stem Cells
- Long Cai, PhD, California Institute of Technology, USA
- Melike Lakadamyali, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, USA
