Stem cells and regenerative medicine world congress 2010

The 4th annual Stem Cells World Congress and exhibition will be held in South San Francisco, the Birthplace of Biotechnology. This year there are two parallel tracks focused specifically on:

• Stem Cells in Drug Discovery and Development
• Regenerative Medicine

This year’s keynote speakers are:

• Bruce Conklin – Senior Investigator, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease – Stem cells, pharmacology and cardiovascular diagnostics
• Thomas Okarma – President, Geron – Human embryonic stem cell therapy: Pathway to the clinic
• Clive Svendsen – Professor, UW Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Centre – Modeling and treating neurological diseases with stem cells
• Alan Trounson – President, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) – Stem cells in drug discovery and development

Other speakers at the event include:

• Amit Patel, Assistant Professor, University of Utah – Cardiovascular cell therapy
• Claude Bernard, Professor of Neuroimmunology and Associate Director, MISCL, Monash University – The promise of stem cells as a neuroregenerative approach to the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS)
• Lingsong Li, Professor, Peking University Stem Cell Research Centre – S1P regulates migration of mesenchymal stem cells that contribute to liver fibrosis
• Ana Krtolica, Chief Scientific Officer, SLL Sciences – Development of the multi-stage stem cell carcinogenesis (MSCC) model/drug discovery platform
• Fang-Xu Jiang, Assistant Professor, Western Australian Institute for Medical Research – Differentiation of islet progenitor Ngn3-expressing cells into insulin-secreting b cells is promoted by inhibition of SIRT1

As well as speakers, the event will of course include an exhibition. This year’s exhibitors include:

• StemRD
• TempSys CheckPoint
• Cell Genix
• Hamilton Thorne

There are also many supporting partners of the show including:

• European Pharmaceutical Review
• StemCells.net
• LabHoo
• Cell Therapy News
• ScienceDocs
• The Tissue Engineering Pages

There will also be a poster presentation at this year’s event, the topics for these will be:

• Cancer Stem Cells
• Stem Cell Epigenetics
• Stem Cells in Drug Discovery and Development
• Regenerative Medicine
• Pluripotency, iPSC
• Biobanking

This year’s Stem Cells World Congress is to be held at The Embassy Suites in San Francisco. The Embassy Suites are less than a mile and a half from San Francisco International Airport and only nine miles south of Downtown San Francisco. For more information on the hotel and its location please visit: http://www.selectbiosciences.com/conferences/SCWC2010/Venue.aspx

The following post-conference tutorials will be held after the Stem Cells World Congress:

• Stem Cells in Drug Discovery and Regenerative Medicine – 9:00am-12:30pm, 22 January 2010, South San Francisco, California. Presented by Enal Razvi, Ph.D.
• Stem Cells-Focused Clinical Trials – 1:00pm-5:00pm, 22 January 2010, South San Francisco, California. Presented by Enal Razvi, Ph.D.

The following course takes place prior to the Stem Cells World Congress:

• Assessing Stem Cell Population Changes in Tissue for Translational Research – 1:00pm-5:00pm, 19 January 2010. Course Tutor: Daniel Peterson.

Who Should Attend?

• Research scientists planning or conducting in vivo studies
• Facility managers
• Data managers
• Executives responsible for preclinical studies
• Executives responsible for clinical trials
• Regulatory officials