8:15 Registration and light breakfast
8:50 Welcome
9:00 Keynote: FDA Expedited Pathways and Regenerative Advanced Therapy Designation
Tejashri Purohit-Sheth, US Food and Drug Administration
Session 1: Stem Cell Therapies in Cardiovascular Medicine
Conveners: John Cooke, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Jane Grande-Allen, Rice University
9:30 Interventional Strategies to Delay Aging Related Diseases & Conditions of the Musculoskeletal System
Johnny Huard, Steadman Philippon Research Institute
10:00 Stem Cell Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure
Emerson Perin, Texas Heart Institute
10:20 RNA-enhanced NextGen Cell Therapies John Cooke, Houston Methodist Research Institute
10:40 Selected Abstract: Zebrafish hoxb5b, a Posterior Hox Factor, Increases Neural Crest Localization and Migratory Extent During Embryogenesis
Adam Howard, Rice University
10:50 Break
Session 2: Stem Cell Therapies in Neuroregeneration
Conveners: Phil Horner, Houston Methodist Research Institute Laura Smith Callahan, University of Texas Health Science Center
11:05 Targeting CSPG Signaling in HUMAN iPSC Neural Grafts for SCI Repair
Ying Liu, University of Texas Health Science Center
11:35 Methodical Reconstruction of Human Neural Networks with Pluripotent Stem Cells
Robert Krencik, Houston Methodist Research Institute
11:55 Selected abstract: In Vivo Imaging Demonstrates Posterior to Anterior Pattern of Early Neuronal Differentiation in the Zebrafish Enteric Nervous System
Philip Baker, Rice University
12:05 Data blitz – 1 min invitations to posters
12:20 Lunch and poster session
1:30 Poster Session (presenters at posters)
2:30 Session 3: Cell-Based Therapies for Tissue Engineering of Digestive Tissues
Conveners: Cindy Farach-Carson, University of Texas Health Science Center
Mary Estes , Baylor College of Medicine
2:30 Engineering a Stem-Cell Based Salivary Gland Neotissue for Relief of Xerostomia (Dry Mouth)
Cindy Farach-Carson, University of Texas Health Science Center
2:55 Stem-Cell Based Intestinal Organoid Cultures for Understanding Gastrointestinal Infections and Repair
Mary Estes, Baylor College of Medicine
3:15 Clonogenic Epithelial Cell Variants Drive Inflammation and Fibrosis in Pediatric Crohn’s
Frank McKeon, University of Houston
3:35 Break
4:00 Keck Seminar: Clinical and Commercial Application of Scaled Human Stem Cell Derivates
Hans Keirstead, AIVITA Biomedical
5:00 Reception