Confirmed Speakers and Chairs
Allistair Abraham, MD
Children's National Hospital
USA
Sherry Adkins MSN, ANP-C
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
USA
Julie Allickson, PhD
Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine
USA
Vicki Antonenas, BSc, MSc
Blood Transplant and Cell Therapies Laboratory, NSW-HP, Westmead
Australia
Martha Arango-Rodriguez MSc, PhD
Multi-Tissue bank and Center of Advanced Therapies, FOSCAL
Colombia
Paul Ashford MSc
ICCBBA
United Kingdom
Medhat Askar MD, PhD, FRCPath
Baylor University Medical Center
USA
Anthony Atala, MD
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
USA
Wade Atkins, MS, MT (ASCP) SBB, CQA(ASQ)
National Institutes of Health
USA
Fouad Atouf, PhD
US Pharmacopeia
USA
Patrick Au, PhD
Ensoma
USA
Krystof Bankiewicz, MD, PhD
Ohio State University
USA
Juliet Barker, MBSS
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
USA
Frank Barry, PhD
National University of Ireland Galway
Ireland
Arie Belldegrun, MD
Allogene
USA
Reni Benjamin, PhD
JMP Securities LLC
USA
Ekatarina Berishvili, MD, PhD
University of Geneva
Switzerland
Alice Bertaina, MD, PhD
Stanford Medical School
USA
Jaap Jan Boelens, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering
USA
Catherine Bollard, MD, MBchB
Children's National Hospital
USA
Carmem Bonfim
Federal University of Paraná
Brazil
Ranieri Cancedda, MD
Università degli Studi di Genova
Italy
Sangeeta Chavan, PhD
Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
USA
Chulhee Choi, MD, PhD
KAIST Institute
South Korea
Sandra Cohen, MD
Université de Montréal
Canada
Selim Corbacioglu, MD
University Children's Hospital Regensburg
Germany
Charles Cox, MD
University of Texas Medical School at Houston
USA
Charles Craddock, MD
University of Birmingham
UK
David Curtis, MBBS, PhD, FRACP, CRCPA
Monash University
Australia
May Daher, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
USA
Saumya Das, MD, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital
USA
Paolo De Coppi
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children United Kingdom
Dominique de Kleijn, PhD
UMC Utrecht
Netherlands
Amy DeZern MD, MHS
Johns Hopkins Medicine
USA
Claudia dos Santos, MD
University of Toronto
Canada
Jason Dubovsky, PhD
Atara Biotherapeutics
USA
Matthew Durdy
Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult
UK
Samir El Andaloussi, PhD
Karolinska Institute
Sweden
Stephanie Farnia, MPH
Nimitt Consulting
USA
Jason Foster, MBA
OriBiotech
UK
Jacques Galipeau, MD
University of Wisconsin-Madison
USA
Lindsey George, MD
University of Pennsylvania
USA
Fabian Gerlinghaus
Cellares
USA
Yong Song Gho, PhD
Pohang University of Science and Technology
South Korea
Bernd Giebel, PhD
University of Duisburg-Essen
Germany
Martin Giedlin
PACT Pharma
USA
Massimiliano Gnecchi, MD, PhD
University of Pavia IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo
Italy
Farshid Giulak, PhD
Wachington University School of Medicine
USA
Michael Gustafson, PhD
Mayo Clinic Arizona
USA
Andrew Hoffman DVM, DVSc
University of Pennsylvania
USA
Patrick Hanley, PhD
Children's National Hospital
USA
Suradej Hongeng, MD
Bumrungrad International Hospital
Thailand
Mitchell Horwitz, MD
Duke University
USA
Christian Jorgensen, MD, PhD
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montpellier
Italy
Deborah Kehl
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Maroun Khoury, PhD
Cells for Cells – REGENERO
Chile
Orly Klein, MD
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
USA
Mauro Krampera, MD
University of Verona
Italy
Lawrence Lamb, PhD
Incysus Therapeutics, Inc.
USA
Margaret Lamb, MD
Nationwide Children's Hospital
USA
Arina Lazareva
Great Ormond Street Hospital
United Kingdom
Oscar Lee, MD, PhD
China Medical University Hospital
Taiwan
Bruce Levine, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
USA
Sai-Kiang Lim, PhD
Institute of Molecular & Cell Biology
Singapore
Eleuterio Lombardo, PhD
Takeda
Spain
William Maloney, MD
Stanford University
USA
Maksim Mamonkin, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
USA
Deepa Manwani, MD
The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
USA
Eduardo Marban, MD, PhD
Cedars-Sinai
USA
Peter Marks, MD, PhD
FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
USA
Ivan Martin, PhD
University Hospital Basel
Switzerland
Robert Mays, MD
Athersys, Inc.
USA
Richard Maziarz
Oregon Health & Science University
USA
John McMannis
Cellenkos
USA
Parinda Mehta, MD
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
USA
Geraldine Mitchell, MBChB
St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
USA
Maurizio Muraca, MD, PhD
University of Padova
Italy
George Muschler, MD
Cleveland Clinic
USA
Norimasa Nakamura, MD, PhD
Osaka University
Japan
Giuseppe Orlando, MD, PhD
Wake Forest University
USA
Nicole Paulk, PhD
University of California San Francisco
USA
Graziella Pellegrini, PhD
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Italy
Donald Phinney, PhD
The Scripps Research Institute
USA
Nicolas Piuzzi, MD
Cleveland Clinic
USA
Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD
Stanford University
USA
Susan Prockop, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
USA
Felipe Prosper, MD, PhD
Universidad de Navarra
Spain
Duncan Purtill, MBBS
Fiona Stanley Hospital
Australia
Sergio Querol MD, PhD
Banc de Sang i Teixits
Spain
Kanya Rajangam MBBS, PhD
Nkarta Therapeutics, Inc.
USA
Patrick Rivers, MBA
Aquilo Capital
USA
Patricia Rocco, MD, PhD
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Brazi
Eva Rohde, MD
Paracelsus Medical University
Austria
Rayne Rouce, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
USA
Annalisa Ruggeri, MD, PhD
San Raffaele Hospital
Italy
Sean Savitz
University of Texas Medical School
USA
Andromachi Scaradavou, MD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
USA
Molly Shoichet, FRS
University of Toronto
Canada
Sandeep Soni, PhD
CRISPR Therapeutics
USA
Megan Suhoski Davis, PhD
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
USA
Karin Tarte, PharmD, PhD
Université de Rennes
France
Le Thi Nguyet Minh PhD
National University of Singapore
Singapore
Alexis Thompson, MD, MPH
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
USA
Anthony Ting, PhD
Athersys
USA
Rocky Tuan, PhD
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Budd Tucker, PhD
University of Iowa Health Care
USA
Bas van Balkom, PhD
University Medical Center Utrecht
Netherlands
Sowmya Viswanathan, PhD
University Health Network
Canada
Wen Bo Wang, PhD
Fate Therapeutics
USA
Kenneth Witwer PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
USA
Robert Wynn MD, MB BChir, MRCP FRCPath
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
UK
Vicky Yang DVM, PhD, DACVIM (cardiology)
Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
USA
