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THE GLOBAL STEM CELL EVENT
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21-26 JUNE, 2021

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PLENARY SESSIONS

Seven plenary sessions make up the core of ISSCR 2021, and focus on key areas of stem cell research and its application. Plenary sessions showcase speakers who can inspire and invigorate attendees with their cutting-edge research and ideas. Award lectures and other featured lectures are also presented in the plenary sessions. Organized by the ISSCR Annual Meeting Program Committee. 

Featured Speakers

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Keynote Address: Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, CiRA, Kyoto University, Japan

Presidential Symposium

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Elaine Fuchs, PhD, Rockefeller University, USA
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Ernest McCulloch Lecture: Sean Morrison, PhD, UT Southwestern, USA
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Meritxell Huch, PhD, Max Planck Dresden, Germany
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Anne McLaren Lecture: Susana Chuva da Sousa Lopes, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
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Charles Murry, MD, PhD, University of Washington, USA
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John McNeish Memorial Lecture: Viviane Tabar, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
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Lorenz Studer, MD, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, USA

All Plenary Sessions and Plenary Invited Speakers

Plenary I: Presidential Symposium: What's in a Germ Layer?

Elaine Fuchs, PhD, Rockefeller University, USA
Meritxell Huch, PhD, Max Planck Dresden, Germany
Charles Murry, MD, PhD, University of Washington, USA
Lorenz Studer, MD, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, USA


Plenary II: Stem Cell Niches

Ernest McCulloch Lecture: Sean Morrison, PhD, UT Southwestern, USA
Anne McLaren Lecture: Susana Chuva da Sousa Lopes, PhD, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Hans Clevers, MD, PhD, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands
Diane Mathis, PhD, Harvard Medical School, USA


Plenary III: Enabling Technologies/Emerging Technologies

Runwanthi Gunawardane, PhD, Allen Institute for Cell Science, USA
David R. Liu, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Matthais Lutolf, PhD, EFPL, Switzerland
Timm Schroeder, PhD, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


Plenary IV: Self-Organization of Developmental Processes

Melissa Little, PhD, Murdoch Children's Research Hospital, Australia
Nicolas Rivron, PhD, IMBA, Austria
James Sharp, EMBO, PhD,  Barcelona, Spain
Takanori Takebe, MD, Children's Hospital Cincinnati, USA
Yi Arial Zeng, PhD,  Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences, China

 
Plenary V: Cellular Identity

Amanda Fisher, PhD, FRS, Imperial College London, UK
Samantha Morris, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
John Ngai, PhD, NIH Brain Initiative, USA
Ramesh Shivdasani, MD, PhD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, USA


Plenary VI: Cellular Therapy and Tissue Engineering

Shuibing Chen, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Sonja Schrepfer MD, PhD, UCSF and Sana, USA
Paul Tesar, PhD , Case Western Reserve University, USA
Wolfram Zimmerman MD, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany


Plenary VII: Breakthroughs in Therapy Development

Keynote Address: Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD,  CiRA, Kyoto University, Japan
John McNeish Memorial Lecture: Viviane Tabar, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA
James E. Bradner, MD, Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research, USA
Sergiu Pasca, MD, Stanford University, USA

 

 

 

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