Symposium on Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine

Agenda

7:00 a.m.

Registration

8:00 a.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Manfred Boehm, M.D.
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Keynote Address
Susan B. Shurin, M.D.
Acting Director
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

NIH Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Therapies
Mahendra S. Rao, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
NIH Center for Regenerative Medicine

Questions and Answers

9:00 - 10:25 a.m.

Session I: New Advances in IPS-cell Technology
Moderator: Sean M. Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
                 Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

A Chemical Approach to Controlling Cell Fate
Sheng Ding, Ph.D.
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease

Insights Into the Mechanisms Underlying iPSC Generation
Kathrin Plath, Ph.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine

Modified mRNA: A Powerful New Tool for Cardiovascular Research
Derrick J. Rossi, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School

Questions and Answers

10:25 a.m.

Break

10:55 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Session II: Reprogramming for Cardiovascular Regeneration
Moderator: Joseph C. Wu, M.D., Ph.D.
                 Stanford School of Medicine

Epigenetic Regulation of Cardiac Regeneration
W. Robb MacLellan, M.D.
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Medicine

Reprogramming Approaches for Cardiovascular Disease
Deepak Srivastava, M.D.
Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and
University of California, San Francisco

Cardiogenesis from Pluripotent Human Stem Cells: Mechanisms and Applications
Charles E. Murry, Ph.D., M.D.
University of Washington

Questions and Answers

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:30 - 3:25 p.m.

Session III: Stem Cells and in vitro Disease Modeling
Moderator: Deepak Srivastava, M.D.
                 Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and University of California,
                 San Francisco

Capturing Disease Genomes in iPS Cells
George Q. Daley, M.D., Ph.D.
Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School

Pursuing Pluripotency
Ihor R. Lemischka, Ph.D.
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Modeling Inherited Cardiogenic Disorders With Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Lior Gepstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Rappaport Institute (Israel)

miRNAs and Cellular Reprogramming
Edward E. Morrisey, Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Questions and Answers

3:25 p.m.

Adjourn

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Poster Session

6:30 p.m.

Networking Dinner at Tragara Ristorante (register and pay separately)