HSCI at 10: The Future is Now

Date: 

Friday, May 23, 2014, 8:30am to 6:00pm

Location: 

Harvard University, Northwest Lab Building, Amphitheater B103 (lower level), 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

Sorry - we are no longer able to accept registrations...this event is fully subscribed.  We will accept walk-ins on a space available basis only.

Ninth Annual HSCI Malkin Retreat

Agenda
(morning)

8:00-9:00: Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00-9:10: Welcome - Brock Reeve, MPhil, MBA
9:10-9:40: Opening Keynote - Doug Melton, PhD - "Making beta cells for diabetics"
9:40-10:10: Steve Hyman, MD - “For schizophrenia and autism, the genetics revolution has arrived: How do we make it matter for patients?”
10:10-10:40:  Ya-Chieh Hsu, PhD - "A good hair day:  Transit-amplifying cells orchestrate stem cell activity and tissue regeneration"
10:40-10:55: Break
11:00-12:10: Postdoctoral Lightning Round

(afternoon)
12:15-2:30: Lunch & Poster Session

2:30-3:00: Derrick Rossi, PhD - “Reprogramming committed blood cells to induced hematopoietic stem cells with defined factors”
3:00-3:30: Challenges/Opportunities/Resources for Cell Therapy -
Moderator: Les Silberstein, MD
Discussants: George Daley, MD, PhD, Clifford Woolf, MD, PhD and Kevin Eggan, PhD
3:30-4:00: Community Introduction:  Olivier Pourquie, PhD
4:00-4:30: Closing Keynote - David Scadden, MD
4:30-6:00: Poster Session and Special 10th Anniversary Reception

Faculty co-chairs:  
John Rinn, PhD
Harvard University Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology and
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

Andrew Brack, PhD
Center for Regenerative Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital

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See also: Annual Retreat