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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. Organized by the ISSCR Annual Meeting Program Committee.
Featured Speakers
Presidential Symposium
Award Lectures
Janet Rossant, PhD, FRS, FRSC, Gairdner Foundation/The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
Valentina Greco, PhD, Yale Stem Cell Center, USA
Madeline Lancaster, PhD, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Stuart H. Orkin, MD, Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, USA
Plenary I: Presidential Symposium: What's in a Germ Layer?
Sponsor: BlueRock Therapeutics
Elaine Fuchs, PhD, Rockefeller University, USA
Meritxell Huch, PhD, Max Planck Dresden, Germany
Charles Murry, MD, PhD, University of Washington and Sana Biotechnology, USA
Lorenz Studer, MD, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, USA
Plenary II: Stem Cell Niches
Sponsor: ROCHE and GENENTECH
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
Ya-chieh Hsu, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Plenary III: Enabling Technologies/Emerging Technologies
Sponsor: T-CiRA Joint Research Program
Ruwanthi 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, Basel, Switzerland
Plenary IV: Self-Organization of Developmental Processes
Sponsor: Bio-Techne
Melissa Little, PhD, Murdoch Children's Research Hospital, Australia
Nicolas Rivron, PhD, IMBA, Austria
Anne Grapin-Botton, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Germany
Takanori Takebe, MD, Children's Hospital Cincinnati, USA
Yi Arial Zeng, PhD, Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences, China
Plenary V: Cellular Identity
Sponsor: Vision Care, Inc.
Amanda Fisher, PhD, UKRI-MRC & 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
Sponsor: STEMCELL Technologies
Shuibing Chen, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD, UCSF and Sana Biotechnology Inc., USA
Paul Tesar, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Wolfram Zimmermann, MD, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany
Plenary VII: Breakthroughs in Therapy Development
Sponsor: bit.bio
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
ISSCR 2021 Virtual Sponsors
