Symposium on Ocular Regeneration: Cell Therapy and Regeneration in the Retina

Date: 

Thursday, October 23, 2014, 8:00am to 5:00pm

Location: 

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, The Starr Center, 185 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA

Program of the Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute and Harvard Medical School, Department of Ophthalmology

Presented in partnership with the Third International Biennial Symposium on AMD

Click here to register for this event.  Registration fee of $150.00 is waived for pre- and post-doctoral fellows.

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM:
The Symposium on Ocular Regeneration: Cell Therapy and Regeneration in the Retina will present the current and future state of regeneration and stem cells in eye diseases. This one day meeting, organized by the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute, will bring together thought leaders in the field to discuss the latest advances, and the potential future of retinal regeneration.
 
Registration: $150.00
Free for pre and post doctoral trainees

ORGANIZERS:
Michael Young, PhD

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Co-director, Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute

Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Co-director, Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Pawan Sinha, PhD
Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience,
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
 
SPEAKERS:
 
Larry I. Benowitz, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Director, Laboratories for Neuroscience Research in Neurosurgery, Boston Children's Hospital
 
Constance L. Cepko, PhD
Bullard Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience,
Harvard Medical School

Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
 
Dennis Clegg, PhD
Professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
Founder and Co-Director, UCSB Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering
 
Robert M. Lavker, PhD
Jack W. Graffin, M.D. Research Professor; Professor in Dermatology
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
 
Bruce R. Ksander, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Co-director, Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology Ocular Oncology Center of Excellence; Associate Scientist, Mass. Eye and Ear/Schepens Eye Research Institute
 
Deepak A. Lamba, PhD
Assistant Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging
 
Neville Osborne, PhD
Professor of Ocular Neurobiology, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford
 
In-Hyun Park, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics; Yale Stem Cell Center
 
Susanna S Park, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California
 
Budd A. Tucker, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences,
The University of Iowa
 
 
Sponsored by: 
Beryl David & Harry N. Gorin Foundation • NeoStem • ReNeuron • Janssen • Genentech