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Plenary sessions showcase inspiring speakers with cutting-edge research and ideas in key areas of stem cell research and its application. Organized by the ISSCR Annual Meeting Program Committee, the plenary sessions make up the core of ISSCR 2022, co-sponsored by STEMCELL Technologies, and highlight each of the tracks running though the program.
Plenary I: Presidential Symposium
Sponsored By: Sana Biotechnology
Prisca Liberali, PhD, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland
Christine L. Mummery, PhD, Leiden University, Netherlands
Jose Polo, PhD, Monash University, Australia
Aryeh Warmflash, PhD, Rice University, USA
Leonard I. Zon, MD, Boston Children's Hospital, USA
Track: Tissue Stem Cells and Regeneration
Plenary IV: Defining Stem Cells Across Space and Time
Sponsored By: Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Sasha Mendjan, PhD, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA), Austria
Tina Mukherjee, PhD, Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), India
Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado, PhD, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA
Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, PhD, University of Oxford, UK
Track: Clinical Applications
Plenary II: Pushing the Boundaries in Stem Cell Therapy and Regeneration
Sponsored By: TAKEDA-CiRA Joint Research Program for iPS Cell Applications (T-CiRA)
Dr. Susan Lim ISSCR Award for Outstanding Young Investigator Lecture: Jennifer Phillips-Cremins, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, University of Arizona, USA
Yvonne Y. Chen, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Malin Parmar, PhD, Lund University, Sweden
Ernest McCulloch Lecture: Deepak Srivastava, MD, Gladstone Institutes, USA
Track: Modeling Development and Disease
Plenary V: Disentangling Single Cell Contributions to Organogenesis and Pathology
Muzlifah Haniffa, PhD, Newcastle University & Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
Jürgen Knoblich, PhD, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Science, Austria
April Pyle, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Xiaoqun Wang, PhD, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, China
ISSCR Achievement Award Lecture: Lorenz Studer, MD, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, USA
Track: Cellular Identity
Plenary III: Programming and Reprogramming
Sponsored By: BlueRock Therapeutics
Ruth Lehmann, PhD, Whitehead Institute, USA
Douglas Melton, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Austin Smith, FRS, FRSE, University of Exeter, UK
Fiona M. Watt, DPhil, FRS, FMedSci, King's College London/EMBO, UK
Track: New Technologies
Plenary VI: Technologies That Model and Direct Emergent Cell Behaviors in Stem Cell Biology and Regeneration
Smita Krishnaswamy, PhD, Yale University, USA
Satoshi Toda, PhD, Kanazawa University, Japan
Alexander van Oudenaarden, PhD, Hubrecht Institute - KNAW & University Medical Center, Netherlands
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD, Columbia University, USA
ISSCR Momentum Award Lecture : Joanna Wysocka, PhD, Stanford University, USA
Track: Clinical Applications
Plenary VII: Cell and Gene Therapy in the Clinic
Sponsored By: MaxWell Biosystems
Keynote Address: Priscilla Chan, MD, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, USA
John McNeish Memorial Lecture: Masayo Takahashi, MD, PhD, Vision Care Inc, Japan
Gary Meininger, MD, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, USA
Luigi Naldini, MD, PhD, SR-TIGET San Rafaele, Italy
Bahram (Bob) Valamehr, PhD, Fate Therapeutics Inc, USA