BSCRC 21st Annual Stem Cell Symposium

BSCRC 21st Annual Stem Cell Symposium

February 7, 2025

8:00am – 4:30pm

Lung Stem Cells, Their Niches, and the Initiation of Lung Cancer

Mark Krasnow, MD, PhD

Professor, Biochemistry, Stanford University

Understanding Cell Types in the Developing Human Brain

and Glioblastoma

Aparna Bhaduri, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry,

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Advancing Stem Cell Differentiation and Human Disease

Modeling with Organ Chips

Samira Musah, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

Engineering Biomaterial Microenvironments to Scale Stem

Cell Expansion and Differentiation for Clinical Translation

David Schaffer, PhD

Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Bioengineering, and Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Heart Generation: Peeling an Onion?

Chuck Murry, MD, PhD

Professor and Chair, Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, USC

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Organoids and Drug Screening

Shuibing Chen, PhD

Associate Professor, Chemical Biology in Surgery and Chemical Biology in Biochemistry, Weill Cornell School of Medicine

Prenatal Therapies for Single Gene Disorder

Tippi MacKenzie, MD

Professor, Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

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Hematopoietic Lineages from Pluripotent Stem Cells

George Daley, MD, PhD

Professor, Medicine, Biological Chemistry, and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Contact – Noushing Karpanian – nkarpanian@mednet.ucla.edu

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