Symposium on Stem Cell Therapies: From Degeneration to Regeneration

Program

Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Lister Hill Building (Building 38A)
8:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Time	Title
8:00 AM	Registration and coffee
8:15 AM - 8:30 AM	Sheldon Miller Welcome remarks
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM	Ronald McKay, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Functional Genetics through Control of Pluripotent Human Cells
9:15 AM- 10:00 AM	Thomas Reh, University of Washington Stem Cell Approaches for the Treatment of Retinal Diseases
10:00 AM - 10:30	Discussion
10:30 AM - 10:45	BREAK
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM	Peter Coffey, University College London Stemming Vision Loss using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM	Eyal Banin, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center Directed Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells into Functional Retinal Pigment Epithelium Cells
12:30 AM - 1:00 PM	Panel Discussion Moderators : Sally Temple, New York Neural Stem Cell Institute, Sheldon Miller, NEI, Anand Swaroop, NEI
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Lunch