Confirmed Speakers

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D.
HHMI – Investigator
Stowers Institute for Medical Research

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Ph.D.
Department of Neurological Surgery
The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

Juan Carlos Izpisύa Belmonte, Ph.D.
Roger Guillemin Nobel Chair
Professor
Gene Expression Laboratory
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Anne Brunet, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Genetics
Stanford University

Irina Conboy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering
UC Berkeley

John Crispino, Ph.D.
Professor
Northwestern University

George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D.
Samuel E. Lux, IV Professor of Hematology
Director, Stem Cell Transplantation Program
HHMI/Children's Hospital Boston

Lisa M. Ellerby, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Susan J. Fisher, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Oral Biology, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Anatomy
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Center for Reproductive Sciences
The Eli & Edythe Broad Center for Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF
Director, Human Embryonic Stem Cell Program

Rachelle J. Sells Galvin, Ph.D.
Director
Translational Sciences and Technologies
Lilly Research Lab
Eli Lilly and Company

Joel M. Gottesfeld, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
The Scripps Research Institute

Jing-Dong Jackie Han, Ph.D.
Director of Laboratory
Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology
Shanghai, China

Ole Isacson, M.D.
Professor of Neurology (Neuroscience)
Harvard Medical School
Director of Neuroregeneration Laboratories and Neuroregeneration Institute at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Heinrich Jasper, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
University of Rochester

Leanne Jones, Ph.D.
Associate Adjunct Professor
Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, UCSD
William Scandling Developmental Chair Laboratory of Genetics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Kwang-Soo Kim, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Harvard
Director, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean

Arnold R. Kriegstein M.D., Ph.D.
John G. Bowes Distinguished Professor in Stem Cell and Tissue Biology
Director, The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, UCSF
UCSF School of Medicine

Deepak Lamba, M.B.B.S., M.S., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Victoria V. Lunyak, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Huck Hui Ng, Ph.D.
Senior Group Leader
Associate Director, Biology
Genome Institute of Singapore

Thomas A. Rando, MD, Ph.D.
Director, Glenn Laboratories for the Biology of Aging
Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Stanford University School of Medicine

Arvind Ramanathan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Mahendra Rao, M.D., Ph.D.
Director - NIH Center for Regenerative Medicine
Laboratory Chief - Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology

Michael Geoffrey Rosenfeld, M.D.
Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
UCSD

Johannes Schwarz, M.D.
Professor of Neurology
Dept. of Neurology, Technical University of Munich and German Research
Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders
Head Movement Disorder Clinic, Geriatric Hospital Haag
Honorary Professor, Cha-Pochon University Seoul

Alan O. Trounson, Ph.D.
President
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Xianmin Zeng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Buck Institute for Research on Aging