UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center 22nd Annual Stem Cell Symposium

UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center 22nd Annual Stem Cell Symposium

February 6, 2026

8:00am – 5:00pm

Welcome Remarks

Tom Rando, MD, PhD – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Cellular Reprogramming in Human Disease

Deepak Srivastava, MD – University of California, San Francisco

Listening to the Niche: How Neural Stem Cells Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out

Aileen Anderson, PhD – University of California, Irvine

Engineering Microphysiological Systems to Model Human Cardiac Disorders

Megan McCain, PhD – University of Southern California

Instructions Included: Assembling Human Neural Circuits to Study Disease

and Develop Therapeutics

Sergiu Pasca, MD – Stanford University

Generation of Therapeutic T Cells from iPS Cells

Shin Kaneko, MD, PhD – Kyoto University

The Next Frontier of Surgical Neuro-Oncology: Cells, Vaccines, and Viruses

Linda Liau, MD, PhD, MBA – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Hypoimmune Cell Therapy From Mice to Men

Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center     – and –

Engineering the Future of Cell Therapy: Strategies for Optimized, Safe,

and Universal Off-The-Shelf Stem Cell Products

Andras Nagy, MD, PhD – University of Toronto

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