Symposium on Stem Cells: Biology and Applications

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Stem Cells: Biology and Applications

26th Annual International Symposium

Friday, May 31, 2013, 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Hunter College of the City University of New York

Room 714 Hunter West Building, East 68th Street at Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10065

http://genecenter.hunter.cuny.edu/symposia/stem-cells

FREE REGISTRATION

Pre-register online for a free lunch and printed name tag by Monday, May 27, 2013

Registration on site does not include lunch

POSTER SESSION WITH CASH AWARDS

Submit your poster by Monday, May 20, 2013

MORNING SESSION: PLURIPOTENCY AND DIRECTED DIFFERENTIATION

James Thomson

Director of Regenerative Biology, Morgridge Institute for Research, University of Wisconsin

Christine Mummery

Professor of Developmental Biology and Chair of the Department of Anatomy and Embryology

Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands

Lorenz Studer

Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Paul Feinstein

Associate Professor, Hunter College of the City University of New York

AFTERNOON SESSION I: APPLICATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS

Harriet Washington

Bioethicist and Author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.

Koen Van Besien

Professor of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

Paula Cannon

Associate Professor, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Pediatrics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Keck School

of Medicine, University of Southern California

Benjamin Ortiz

Associate Professor of Biology, Hunter College of the City University of New York

AFTERNOON SESSION II: TISSUE ENGINEERING AND REGENERATION

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado

Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Utah

Peter Zandstra

Professor, Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Bioengineering, Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, The Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic

Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Director, Laboratory for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering, Columbia University.

SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS

Hunter College of the City University of New York,

Center for Study of Gene Structure & Function

http://genecenter.hunter.cuny.edu

Clinical & Translational Science Center, Weill Cornell Medical College

http://www.med.cornell.edu/ctsc/index.html

including its partners: Hunter College School of Nursing, Cornell University Cooperative Extension in NYC Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Hospital for Special Surgery

Supported by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health - 8G12 MD007599-27 (formerly NCRR Grant # G12 RR003037) and the Weill Cornell Medical College Clinical & Translational Science Center - 2UL1TR000457-06 (formerly UL1-RR-024996) of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.