KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Fiona WOOD
University of Western Australia
The evolution and challenges introducing cell based therapies into burn care and scar therapy
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
Firdaus Abdul Aziz
University of Malaya
Expedited regulatory pathways for stem cell-based products in Malaysia: ethical and legal considerations
Antonio Bertoletti
Duke-NUS Medical School
T cell therapy as a localized modulator of tumor immune environment
Christine Cheung
Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Endothelial instability predisposes ischemic stroke patients to recurrent vascular events
Bryan Choi
ATEMS
Development of an injectable cartilage gel using chondrogenic progenitor cells
John Connolly
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
Virus specific T cells as platform for solid tumor immunotherapy
Justin Cooper-White
CSIRO
Softer, faster, better! – Substrate mechanics drives superior somatic cell reprogramming outcomes
Anthony Davis
Dark Horse Consulting
Effective & cost-effective, but unaffordable? The future of cell and gene therapy
Alicia Henn
Biospherix
The patient in the incubator: the cytocentric approach to avoiding suboptimal transients
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
Ohad Karnieli
ADVA Biotechnology
Bringing immune cell therapies to patients, innovative solutions for CAR T manufacturing, enabling scalability and cost reduction
Shin Kawamata
Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation
In process monitoring for mass production of pluripotent stem cells
Antonio Lee
MEDIPOST Co., Ltd
Commercialization of advanced allogeneic cell therapy product in Korea and beyond
Mayasari Lim
RoosterBio Inc.
Radically simplifying scale-up and clinical translation of hMSCs and extracellular vesicles
Wendy Lipworth
University of Sydney
The oversight of clinical innovation in a medical marketplace
Michael Lotze
University of Pittsburgh
Expansion of human tumor infiltrating γδ T cells for cancer therapy
Maksim Mamonkin
Baylor College of Medicine
Engineering off-the-shelf therapeutic T-cells to resist host immune rejection
Charlotte Morgan
Regeneus Ltd
Regeneus’ novel allogeneic stem cell platform for Osteoarthritis
Lee Lee Ong
Health sciences authority
Regulatory updates on cell and gene therapy products in Singapore
Jaichandran Sivalingam
Bioprocessing Technology Institute
Future of transfusion medicine – Human induced pluripotent stem cells derived blood?
Arthur Sampaio
Stemcell technologies
Characterization of extracellular vesicles produced by human mesenchymal stromal cells in an improved extracellular vesicle-free medium
Cameron Stewart
University of Sydney
The use of professional disciplinary systems to regulate innovation: lessons from stem cell practice in Australia
Satoshi Takahashi
University of Tokyo
Stem cell expansion of cord blood graft” vs “bridging support with 3rd party hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells
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
Drew Titmarsh
Scaled Biolabs Inc
Closing the loop: a software hypervisor to direct a structured, data science approach to cell process development
Monica Tjin
Duke-NUS
Cellular therapy for burns/skin injuries: Laminin-based epidermal keratinocytes culture system in xeno-free and chemically defined condition
Andre van Wijnen
Mayo Clinic
The Science of stem cell therapy – parameters affecting dosing and efficacy
Wen Bo Wang
Fate Therapeutics
Developing allogeneic cellular immunotherapies with iPSC technology