The New York Stem Cell Foundation

NYSCF Conference Overview

The NYSCF conference is unique: it focuses on translational stem cell research, demonstrating the potential to advance cures for the major diseases of our time.

It is designed for all professionals with an interest in stem cell research, including physicians, researchers, clinical investigators, professors, government and health officials, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. The panels on Wednesday are designed to reach a broader audience, including the lay public.

2012 Conference Schedule

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2013
Caspary Auditorium, The Rockefeller University

11:00 – 11:05 Introduction & Welcome Remarks – Susan L. Solomon, CEO – The NYSCF Research Institute

COMMERCIAL INNOVATIONS IN STEM CELL RESEARCH

11:05 – 12:05 Panel Discussion

Chair
TBD

PANELISTS
Sridaran Natesan, PhD – Sanofi
Mark J. Powers, PhD – Life Technologies

12:05 – 1:10 Break & Poster Session

road to the clinic

1:10 – 2:30 Panel Discussion

Chair and Moderator: Lee Rubin, PhD – Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Panelists
Ashley Dombkowski, PhD – 23andMe, Inc.
Martin Friedlander, PhD – The Scripts Research Institute
Story Landis, PhD – National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, PhD – Columbia University

2:30 – 3:00 Break & Poster Session

From Cells to Organs

3:00 – 4:30 Panel Discussion

Chair and Moderator: TBD

Panelist
Edward Boyden, PhD, NYSCF – Robertson Investigator – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Donald E. Ingber, MD, PhD – Wyss Institute at Harvard University
Stephen Francis Badylak, D.V.M, PhD, MD – University of Pittsburgh

4:30 – 5:30 Break & Poster Session

programming and reprogramming stem cells

Chair and Moderator: Ihor Lemischka, PhD – Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Panelist
5:30 - 5:50 Susan Fisher, PhD – University of California, San Francisco
Human Stem Cells from Single Blastomeres Reveal Pathways of Embryonic or Trophoblast Fate Specification

5:55 - 6:15 Matthias Stadtfeld, PhD – NYU Langone Medical Center
Mechanisms of Cellular Reprogramming

6:20 - 6:40 Dieter Egli, PhD – NYSCF Robertson Investigator
Reprogramming by Human Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer

6:40 – 7:05 The 2013 NYSCf — Robertson Stem Cell Prize Recipient Address

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2013

8:15 – 8:45  Registration and Complimentary Breakfast

8:45 – 8:50  Introduction: Susan L. Solomon, CEO, The NYSCF Research Institute

8:50 – 8:55  Morning Welcome
 

DIABETES AND AUTOIMMUNITY

Chair: Allen Spiegel, MD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine

9:00 – 9:20 Hans Snoeck, MD – Columbia University
Generation of Lung and other Anterior Foregut Endoderm Derivatives from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

9:25 – 9:45 Douglas A. Melton, PhD – Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Making Pancreatic Beta Cells

9:50 – 10:10 Daniel G. Anderson, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Biomaterials for the Treatment of Diabetes

10:15 – 10:45 Break & Poster Session

CANCER AND BLOOD

Chair: Irving L. Weissman, MD – Stanford Schools of Medicine

10:45 – 11:05 Michael Sadelain, MD, PhD – Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Stem Cell Therapy for ß-thalassemia and Sickle Cell Disease

11:10 – 11:30 Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, NYSCF — Robertson Investigator
Washington University School of Medicine
All Roads Lead to Rome: Convergent Differentiation from Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Achieve Immunity.

11:35 – 11:55 Trista North, PhD – Harvard University
Metabolic Regulation of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Formation and Function

12:00 – 1:30 Complimentary Lunch & Poster Session

HEART AND MUSCLES

Chair: TBD

1:30 – 1:50 Rita Perlingeiro, PhD – University of Minnesota
From Skin to Skeletal Muscle: A Potential for Autologous Transplantation in MD

1:55 – 2:15 Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD – Stanford University
iPSCs for Cardiac Disease Modeling and Drugs Screening

2:20 – 2:40 Lee Rubin, PhD – Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Chemical Regulators of Muscle Satellite Cells

NEURODEGENERATION

Chair: Zach W. Hall, PhD — The NYSCF Research Institute

3:15 – 3:35 Arnold R. Kriegstein, MD, PhD – University of California
Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells of the Developing Human Neocortex

3:40 – 4:00 Ivar Mendez, MD, PhD – Dalhousie University
Cell Transplantation for Parkinson's Disease: Methodological and Surgical Considerations

4:05 – 4:25 Gordon Fishell, PhD – NYU Langone Medical Center
Systematic Identification of Genes that Direct the Fate of ES Cells to Cortical Interneuron Subtypes

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

4:30 – 5:00 Irving L. Weissman, MD – Stanford School of Medicine
Normal and Neoplastic Stem Cells

CLOSING RECEPTION