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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