OIRM Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Symposium

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OIRM Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Symposium

By Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Date and time

Thu, May 25, 2017 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM EDT

Location

Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning

686 Bay Street Auditorium, 2nd floor Toronto, ON M5G 0A4 Canada

Description

OIRM's Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Symposium is an annual one-day event that brings together scientists, clinicians, trainees, industry, health charities and government to share advances made by OIRM's Disease Teams and discovery science that demonstrate Ontario's translational capacity in regenerative medicine.

Select trainees will have the opportunity to present their work during "Stem Cells in 60 Seconds". Apply today at http://oirm.ca/oirm-research/trainees.

The event is free but registration is required.

We would like to thank our sponsors for helping make this day possible; The Hospital for Sick Children, CCRM, BD BioSciences and Roche Diagnostics. A special thanks to SickKids Research Institute for providing the space for this event.

OIRM Annual Symposium

Thursday, May 25th, 2017

686 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning- SickKids


Morning Master of Ceremonies: Dr. Cheryle Seguin, Assistant Professor, Western University and Director of Research at OIRM

8:30-9:00 am

Registration and Breakfast (Sponsored by the SickKids Research Institute)

9:00-9:20 am

Opening Remarks:

Dr. Duncan Stewart

President and Scientific Director, Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Honourable Reza Moridi

Minster of Research, Innovation and Science (Ontario)

Novel Approaches to Regenerative Medicine

9:20-9:30 am

Control of immune tolerance toward allograft cell

Dr. Andras Nagy

Senior Investigator

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

9:30-9:45 am

Overcoming central vision loss with stem cell therapy and rehabilitation

Dr. Valerie Wallace

Director and Senior Scientist

University Health Network

9:45- 9:55 am

Injectable, tissue engineered scaffold for delivery of cardiac patches

Miles Montgomery

PhD Candidate

University of Toronto

9:55-10:15 am

A stem cell approach to regenerate the injured spinal cord

Dr. Chris Ahuja and Dr. Mohammad Khazaei

Scientific Associate Scientific Associate

University Hospital University Hospital Network Network

10:15-10:25 am

Building kidneys using stem cells and porcine decellularized kidney

Dr. Ian Rogers

Associate Scientist

Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute

10:25-10:40 am

Pluripotent and cord blood derived progenitor t-cells for immune reconstitution therapy

Dr. JC Zuniga-Pflucker

Senior Scientist

Sunnybrook Research Institute

10:40-11:00 am

Morning Coffee Break

Translation of Cellular Therapies

11:00-11:20 am

Translation of a bench-scale cardiomyocyte differentiation protocol to a scalable manufacturing platform

Dr. Janet Rothberg

Development Scientist, Advance Team, CCRM

11:20- 11:40 am

Heart regeneration with stem cell-derived heart muscle cells

Dr. Michael Laflamme

Senior Scientist

University Hospital Network

11:40-11:55 am

Preclinical evaluation of a bioengineered human islet

Dr. Cristina Nostro

Scientist

University Hospital Network

11:55-12:15 pm

INCuBATOR: Innovative Neonatal Cellular Therapy for BPD

Dr. Bernard Thebaud

Senior Scientist

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

12:15-1:15 pm

Lunch and Networking (sponsored by CCRM)

Afternoon Master of Ceremonies: Dr. Penney Gilbert, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto and Director of Education and Outreach at OIRM

Promoting Endogenous Repair

1:15- 1:35 pm

Repairing white matter in the brain following disease or injury in children or teenagers

Dr. Freda Miller

Senior Scientist

The Hospital for Sick Children

1:35-1:45 pm

Heart tissue repair via immune cell growth factors

Dr. Slava Epelman

Scientist

University Hospital Network

Moving Into the Clinic

1:45-2:00 pm

Informed Consent for Regenerative Medicine Trials

Dr. Harry Atkins

Scientist

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

2:00-2:20 pm

Cellular Immunotherapy for Septic Shock

Dr. Lauralyn McIntyre

Scientist

Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

2:20-2:40 pm

CellCAN Network: enabling multi-center clinical trials

Dr. Denis Claude Roy

Director of the Center of Research

Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital

Stem Cells in 60 sec

2:40-2:55 pm

Ghazaled Rafatian; PhD candidate (Davis lab, University of Ottawa)

Tyler Cooper; PhD candidate (Hess lab, Western University)

Dr. Mirabelle Ho; PDF (Stewart lab, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)

Haben Abraha; MASc student (Gilbert lab, UFT)

Morgan Stykel; PhD student (Ryan lab, University of Guelph)

Dr. Martin Kang; PDF (Thébaud lab, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)

Tanya Barretto; MSc student (Baker lab, UFT)

Dr. Miriel Ho; PDF (Stewart lab, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute)

2:55-3:10 pm

Afternoon Coffee Break

Keynote Address

3:10- 4:10 pm

Translating Genome and Epigenome Editing to the Clinic

Dr. Fyodor Urnov,

Associate Director, Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences

Adjunct Professor of Genetics, UC Berkeley

4:10- 4:20 pm

Dr. Bob Bell

Deputy Minister,

Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (Ontario)

4:20- 4:25 pm

Closing Remarks:

Dr. Duncan Stewart

President and Scientific Director, Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine

4:25- 5:00 pm

Networking and Snacks-to-go

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