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OIRM Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Symposium
Date and time
Location
Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning
686 Bay Street Auditorium, 2nd floor Toronto, ON M5G 0A4 CanadaDescription
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