Current Location: Conference Programme
Programme Outline
For programme, please click here.
For details of lunchtime seminar organised by Applied Biosystems, click here. Places are limited, so you will need to register to secure your free place.
Programme Highlights
International Speakers including:
- Ron McKay (NIH, USA) Neural cell derivation from ES cells
- Shinya Yamanaka (Kyoto Univ, Japan) Fibroblast reprogramming to ES cells
- Alan Colman (Stem Cell International, Singapore) Clinical applications of stem cells
- Martin Pera (California) Renewal and Lineage Commitment of Human ES Cells
- John Davies (Toronto) High yield, immunomodulatory, mesenchymal precursors from the perivascular tissue of human umbilical cords
- Christine Mummery (Utrecht) Cardiomyocytes from human ES cells
- Geoff Raisman (UCL) Repair of spinal cord and spinal root injuries by transplantation of adult olfactory ensheathing cells
- Roger Patient (Oxford) Haematopoietic stem cell ontogeny
- Azim Surani (Cambridge) Epigenetic control of ES cells
- Stephen Minger (London) Clinical applications of stem cells
Major Sessions:
· Human ES Cell Derivation and Characterisation
· Adult/Foetal Stem Cells
· Epigenetic Regulation
· Targeted Differentiation
· Gene therapy
Clinical Applications in:
· Diabetes, Parkinsons, Musculoskeletal
and Vascular Diseases,
· Heart, Liver and Kidney Diseases
· Commercial Opportunities in Stem Cells
· Legal, Bioethical and Regulatory Affairs
· And including “Stem Cells for
Beginners” and “Stem Cell Question Time”
