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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.
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