The unique symposium, taking place 22-24 September 2023, is designed to highlight progress in the continuum of stem cell science from early development into clinical applications. Scientists from Latin America and across the globe are convening to share their latest stem cell research in areas such as pluripotency and early development and its adult counterpart, tissue stem cells and regeneration. Advances in understanding cellular plasticity through reprogramming and directed differentiation will be showcased as will the emerging field of tissue self-organization dynamics and innovative new technologies and tools that are driving the field forward. The program will be capped by sessions on the advances in modeling and treating disease and some of the ethical issues that scientists (and the public) are confronting.
Opening Session
Welcome: Keith Alm, CEO, ISSCR
Keynote: Malin Parmar, PhD, Lund University, Sweden
Eftychia Apostolou, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Pluripotency and Reprogramming
Nissim Benvenisty, MD, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Lygia da Veiga Pereira, PhD, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Juliane Viegas, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Keynote: Amander Clark, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Development
Dieter Egli, PhD, Columbia University, USA
Kieran Harvey, PhD, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
Guillermo Lanuza, PhD, Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina
Zsuzsanna Izsvák, PhD, Max Delbrück Center (MDC), Germany
Adult Stem Cells and Regeneration
Fiona Doetsch, PhD, University of Basel, Switzerland
Sophie Jarriault, PhD, Institute of Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, France
Rosalia Mendez-Otero, MD, PhD, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
Carlos E. Da Silva Goncalves, MSc, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of São Paulo, Brazil
Directed Differentiation and Transdifferentiation
Esteban O. Mazzoni, PhD, New York University, USA
Marius Wernig, MD, PhD, Stanford University, USA
Iván Velasco, PhD, National Autonomous University, Mexico
Xi Wang, PhD, Harvard University, USA
Leveraging Tools to Study Stem Cell Biology
Knut Woltjen, PhD, CiRA, Kyoto, Japan
Stevens Rehen, PhD, D’Or Institute for Research and Education, Brazil
Maria Carolina Marchetto, PhD, University of California, San Diego, USA
Jian Shu, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard University, USA
César Meléndez, MS, Instituto de Fisiología Celular UNAM, Mexico
Self-Organization of Structures
Jose Polo, PhD, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Nicolas Rivron, PhD, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Science, Austria
Jun Wu, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Disease Modeling
Marimélia Porcionatto, PhD, Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil
Alysson Muotri, PhD, University of California, San Diego, USA
Verónica Palma, PhD, Universidade de Chile, Chile
Thomas Hutschalik, MSc, Ncardia Services B.V., Netherlands
André Teles E. Silva, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Brazil
Ethics and Unproven Stem Cell Therapies in South and Latin America
Fernando Pitossi, PhD, Fundación Instituto Leloir, Argentina
María de Jesús Medina-Arellano, PhD, Institute of Legal Research UNAM, Mexico
Megan Munsie, PhD, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mairim Solis, PhD, Gorgas Memorial Institute for Health Studies/National Bioethics Research Committee in Panama, Panama
Clinical Applications of Stem Cell Biology
Mahendra Rao, MBBS, PhD, panCELLa, Canada
Antonio Carlos Campos de Carvalho, MD, PhD, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil
Nayara Leite, PhD, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, USA
Quinn Peterson, PhD, Mayo Clinic, USA
In combination with this meeting, the ISSCR has partnered with the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and The Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) to develop and present the São Paulo School of Advanced Science in Stem Cell Biology in the week leading up to the International Symposium. The program consists of 100 undergraduate and graduate students, and post-doctoral scholars from across Brazil and the world. The ISSCR is proud to support this course and make stem cell science accessible to students worldwide.
To register to attend virtually, visit this link. The program will be available for all registrants on demand following the meeting. Media should contact kkilbourne@isscr.org to request complimentary access.