KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Fiona WOOD
University of Western Australia



The evolution and challenges introducing cell based therapies into burn care and scar therapy
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Bruce LEVINE
The University of Pennsylvania
Genetically engineered immunity for cancer: the development and global regulatory approvals of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells and what’s coming next
INVITED SPEAKERS
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Firdaus Abdul Aziz
University of Malaya

Expedited regulatory pathways for stem cell-based products in Malaysia: ethical and legal considerations

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Antonio Bertoletti
Duke-NUS Medical School



T cell therapy as a localized modulator of tumor immune environment

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Christine Cheung
Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Endothelial instability predisposes ischemic stroke patients to recurrent vascular events
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Bryan Choi
ATEMS




Development of an injectable cartilage gel using chondrogenic progenitor cells
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John Connolly
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology

Virus specific T cells as platform for solid tumor immunotherapy
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Justin Cooper-White
CSIRO

Softer, faster, better! – Substrate mechanics drives superior somatic cell reprogramming outcomes
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Anthony Davis
Dark Horse Consulting


Effective & cost-effective, but unaffordable? The future of cell and gene therapy
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Alicia Henn
Biospherix





The patient in the incubator: the cytocentric approach to avoiding suboptimal transients
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Akitsu Hotta
Kyoto University
Minimizing immunogenicity of iPS cells by custom disruption of HLA genes utilizing CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing: towards 2nd generation iPS cell stock for cost-effective cell therapy
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Ohad Karnieli
ADVA Biotechnology



Bringing immune cell therapies to patients, innovative solutions for CAR T manufacturing, enabling scalability and cost reduction
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Shin Kawamata
Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation

In process monitoring for mass production of pluripotent stem cells

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Mickey Koh
St George's Hospital





Making the unproven proven

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Antonio Lee
MEDIPOST Co., Ltd


Commercialization of advanced allogeneic cell therapy product in Korea and beyond

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Mayasari Lim
RoosterBio Inc.



Radically simplifying scale-up and clinical translation of hMSCs and extracellular vesicles
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Xiangliang Lin
ESCO Aster





Continuous bioprocessing platform for Car T

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Wendy Lipworth
University of Sydney


The oversight of clinical innovation in a medical marketplace
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Michael Lotze
University of Pittsburgh


Expansion of human tumor infiltrating γδ T cells for cancer therapy
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Maksim Mamonkin
Baylor College of Medicine



Engineering off-the-shelf therapeutic T-cells to resist host immune rejection
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Charlotte Morgan
Regeneus Ltd





Regeneus’ novel allogeneic stem cell platform for Osteoarthritis
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May Win Naing
SIMTech





Automated cell expansion: Trends & outlook of critical technologies
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Lee Lee Ong
Health sciences authority



Regulatory updates on cell and gene therapy products in Singapore
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Jaichandran Sivalingam
Bioprocessing Technology Institute

Future of transfusion medicine – Human induced pluripotent stem cells derived blood?
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Arthur Sampaio
Stemcell technologies


Characterization of extracellular vesicles produced by human mesenchymal stromal cells in an improved extracellular vesicle-free medium
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Cameron Stewart
University of Sydney




The use of professional disciplinary systems to regulate innovation: lessons from stem cell practice in Australia
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Satoshi Takahashi
University of Tokyo





Stem cell expansion of cord blood graft” vs “bridging support with 3rd party hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells
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Lip Kun Tan
National University Hospital
Establishing the National Cell Therapy Program for process development and clinical manufacturing of cell & gene therapy products in Singapore
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Drew Titmarsh
Scaled Biolabs Inc




Closing the loop: a software hypervisor to direct a structured, data science approach to cell process development
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Monica Tjin
Duke-NUS

Cellular therapy for burns/skin injuries: Laminin-based epidermal keratinocytes culture system in xeno-free and chemically defined condition
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Andre van Wijnen
Mayo Clinic





The Science of stem cell therapy – parameters affecting dosing and efficacy
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Wen Bo Wang
Fate Therapeutics




Developing allogeneic cellular immunotherapies with iPSC technology
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Francis Wong
Singhealth


Long term clinical outcomes of stem cell therapy in cartilage repair: Are we ready for the next step?
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Lynn Yap
Duke-NUS




Cardiovascular progenitors for heart regeneration in preclinical models

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