2023 CONFIRMED COURSE AND SUMMIT SPEAKERS
Angeli Maun Akey, MD
Founding medical director of North Florida Integrative Medicine, Ageless Medical Solutions
Ernesto Algaba
Hogan Lovells Partner - Mexico City
Kersti Alm, PhD
CSO at Phase Holographic Imaging (PHI), Lund, Sweden
Graca Almeida-Porada, MD, PhD
Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Jane Andrews, PhD
Founder and CEO of Cell Bridge Strategies
Anthony Atala, MD
Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Steven Bauer, PhD
Chief Regulatory Science Affairs Program Officer for WFIRM
National Institute of Health
National Institute on Aging
Isabel Beerman, PhD
Stadtman Investigator - Translational Gerontology / Epigenetics and Stem Cell Aging Unit - National Institute on Aging
Gregory Brewer, PhD
Professor, MIND Institute, Center for Neuroscience of Learning and Memory and Dept. Biomedical Engineering, Univ. California
Arnold Caplan, PhD
Professor, Biology; Director of the Skeletal Research Center at Case Western Reserve University
V. Celeste Carter, PhD
Program Director, Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), National Science Foundation (NSF)
Kyle Cetrulo
Co-Founder of the International Perinatal Stem Cell Society, Founder and CEO of Heiwa Bushido Enterprises
Karen L. Christman, PhD
Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine; Associate Dean for Faculty, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California San Diego
Allen Comer, PhD
Senior Director of Research at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
Roy Cooper
Governor of North Carolina
Dr. Desirée Cox, MD, PhD
Director of Health Equity and Distributive Justice Initiatives at Healthspan Action Coalition
Abla Creasey, PhD
Vice President of Therapeutics Development at CIRM
Tracy Criswell, PhD
Associate Professor Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Stephanie Dainow
Executive Director at Lifespan.io (Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation)
Charlotte Damiano
Hogan Lovells Partner - Paris
Vishwa Deep Dixit, DVM,, PhD
Professor at Yale University and Director of Yale Center for Research on Aging
Aslan (Mehdi) Dehghani, PhD
Scientist/Bioengineer for Extracellular Vesicles Applications, Corporate Research, Sartorius Stedim North America
Shiri Gur-Cohen, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Regenerative Medicine at the University of California San Diego
Aubrey de Grey, PhD
President & Chief Science Officer LEV Foundation
Jyothi Devakumar, PhD
Director of International Regulatory Affairs Healthspan Action Coalition
Michael Druckman
Partner and Chair of Hogan Lovells’ Cell, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Industry Group
George Eastwood
Board Chair for The Emily Whitehead Foundation
Kevin Engelbert
NASA Portfolio Manager for In Space Production Applications (InSPA)
Daniel Garcia, LLM
Hogan Lovells Senior Associate - Houston, TX
Jaime R. Garza, MD, DDS, FACS
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Director of Human Regenerative Cell Trials at Tulane University School of Medicine; Former NFL Player; Member, NFL Alumni
Kaitlin Geran
Research Program Manager for the Alliance for Regenerative Rehabilitation Research and Training (AR3T)
Dr. Charles A. Gersbach
Professor and Director for Biomolecular & Tissue Engineering, and Director for the Center for Advanced Genomic Technologies at Duke University
Marc Giulianotti, PhD
Senior Program Director, CASIS
Florina Gobel
President, Center for Contemporary Sciences and Executive Advisor, Methuselah Foundation
Dane Gobel
Co-founder of the Methuselah Foundation
Dr. Benjamin Goehl
Hogan Lovells Senior Associate - Munich
Vijay Saradhi Gorantla, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Director of the VCA Program at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Raphael Gorodetsky, PhD
Head of the Laboratory of Radiobiology and Biotechnology, Sharett Institute of Oncology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem
Gary Green, EdD
Assistant Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Paula Grisanti, DMD, MBA
CEO and a founding member of the National Stem Cell Foundation
Andrei Gudkov, PhD, DSc
Professor of Oncology,
SVP and Garman Family Chair of Department of Cell Stress Biology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Buffalo, NY, USA
Joshua M. Hare, MD
Director, Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Ellen Heber-Katz, PhD
Professor at Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR)
Eve Herold
Director of Policy Research and Education at Healthspan Action Coalition
Dr. Scott J. Hollister
Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology
James Huang
Hogan Lovells Counsel - Washington, DC
Edward Hudgins, PhD
Founder, president, Human Achievement Alliance
Joshua Hunsberger, PhD
Chief Technology Officer, RegenMed Development Organization (ReMDO); Executive Director, Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing Society (RMMS)
Alan Jakimo, JD
Senior Public Policy Research Fellow Regenerative Medicine Foundation
Nancy Johnston
Executive Director of the Piedmont Triad office for the North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Junaid Mian, RPh
Pharmacist and Commercial Space Entrepreneur and Investor
Neil Kellen, MBA
Cell Bridge Strategies, CFO & Principal Consultant – Corporate Strategy
Giacomo Lanzoni, PhD
Assistant Professor Diabetes Research Institute, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Miami
Mike Lewis
Chief Innovation Officer at NanoRacks, LLC
Dylan Livingston
Founder and President of the Alliance for Longevity Initiatives (A4LI)
Jeanne Loring, PhD
Advisor to Aspen Neuroscience, Professor Emeritus Scripps Research
John Jackson, PhD
Associate Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
ARPA-H
Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)
Amy Jenkins, PhD
Director, Health Science Futures at ARPA-H
Young Min Ju, PhD
Assistant Professor Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Dobri Kaspov, MD
Member of the Board of Directors for the International Society of Apheresis, Founder Global Apherisis and Co-founder of Lyfspan
Brian Kennedy, PhD
Professor at the National University Singapore, Director of National University Health Systems Centre for Healthy Longevity
Melissa King
Chief Operating Officer and Founding Board Member of Healthspan Action Coalition
Nancy King, JD
Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine and WFIRM; Co-Director, Center for Bioethics, Health and Society and Graduate Program in Bioethics, Wake Forest University
Sharon King
Patient Advocate and State-appointed Member of the North Carolina Advisory Council on Rare Diseases
Sang Jin Lee, PhD
Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Ted Lis
Hogan Lovells Counsel - Washington, DC
Tom Karlya
Senior Vice President Diabetes Research Institute Foundation
Aaron J. Krych, MD
Orthopedic Surgeon Sports Medicine Specialist at Mayo Clinic
Keith March, MD, PhD, FACC
Professor of Medicine, UF Division of Cardiology, Director, UF Center for Regenerative Medicine
Janet Marchibroda
President, Alliance for Cell Therapy Now
Frank Marini, PhD
Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Peter Marks, MD, PhD
Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the Food and Drug Administration
Christy Martin
Former Female Boxer elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame
Josh Maxwell, PhD
Assistant Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Lisa McClellan
Senior Partner Ring Of Brotherhood, LLC
Tony Mikos, PhD
Louis Calder Professor, Department of Bioengineering, BioScience Research Collaborative, Rice University
Vincent M. Monnier MD, MSc
Professor of Pathology and Biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University
Sean Murphy, PhD
Associate Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Christopher Nagelli, PhD
Assistant Professor at Mayo Clinic
Robert Newman, PhD
Associate Professor,
Biology, NC A&T
University
Doug Oliver, MSW
Patient Advocate and founder of Regenerative Outcomes Foundation
Graham Parker, PhD
Professor Department of Pediatrics Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit, MI
Mahendra Rao, MD, PhD
CEO of panCELLa Inc and Implant Therapeutics
Russ H. Reed, BSc. Dip. Ed, Grad. Dip. Inst. Administration, MA
Executive Director National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce (NCBW)
Camillo Ricordi, MD
Professor of Surgery and Director, Diabetes Research Institute and Cell Transplant Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Rudy the Rhino
Unofficial Mascot for Endangered Odd-toed Ungulates Everywhere
Michael Roberts, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer Center for the Advancement of Science in Space - International Space Station National Laboratory
Jenifer Raub
Patient Advocate for Parkinson’s disease; President, Summit for Stem Cell Foundation, Inc.
William (Bill) Remak
Senior Advisor, Coordinator at Global Immunization Action Network Team (GIANT)
Fabien Roy
Hogan Lovells Partner - Brussels
Frances Saldana
President Emeritus and Co-founder, UCI HD-CARE
Mikael Salmela
Hogan Lovells Partner -
Paris
Joan Schanck, MPA
Chief Education Program Officer, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Carol Shao
Hogan Lovells Associate - Bejing
Amit Sharma, PhD
Group Lead, SENS Research Foundation
Dr. Arun Sharma
Assistant professor at the Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles
Adrienne Bell-Cors Shapiro
Founder and Science Administrator of the Axis Advocacy Foundation
National Institute of Standards and Technology
U.S. Department of Commerce
John Schiel, PhD
NIIMBL Federal Technical Program Manager, Office of Advanced Manufacturing, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Bernard Siegel, JD
Executive Director, Regenerative Medicine Foundation
Keshav K Singh, PhD
Founder of Mitochondria Research and Medicine Society, Founder of Yuva Biosciences
Evan Y. Snyder, MD, PhD., FAAP
Professor and Program Director, Stem Cells and Regeneration Program
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Loran Solorio, PhD
Manager of Product Research Engineering at Cook Biotech, Inc
Shang Song, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona
Stemmy the Stem Cell
Ambassador for Stem Cell Research
Jana Stoudemire, PhD
Director, In-Space Manufacturing, Axiom Space
Doris Taylor, PhD, FAC, FAHA
Founder of Organamet Bio Inc.
Jessica M. Sun, MD
Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Specialist - Duke University
Akosua Tuffuor, JD
Hogan Lovells Associate - Washington, DC
Siri Vaeth, MSW
Executive Director of the Cystic Fibrosis Research Institute (CFRI)
Bryan Walsh, JD
Hogan Lovells Associate - Washington, DC
Kai Wang, PhD
Instructor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School
Julie Watson, JD
Chief Intellectual Property Officer and Legal Counsel, WFIRM
Xiaoxi Wei, PhD
Co-founder and CEO of X-Therma Inc.
Dr. Victoria Weis
Instructor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM)
Michael D. West, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO of AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.
Ian A. White, MS., PhD, FACRM
Chief Executive Officer, Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Neobiosis
David Williams, DSc
Professor and Director of International Affairs, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Mark Wolff, MS, PhD
Advisory Industry Consultant for SAS Institute’s Global IoT Division
David W. Wood, D.Sc,
Chair of London Futurists
Amanda Wright
Board Member at Javara Research
Lili Yang, PhD
Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Pamela Yelick, PhD
Professor and Director,
Craniofacial and
Molecular Genetics,
Tufts Graduate School of
Biomedical Sciences
James Yoo, MD, PhD
Chief Operations Program Officer, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Jessie Xie
Hogan Lovells Counsel - Beijing
Lowell M. Zeta
Hogan Lovells Partner - Washington, DC
Angell Zhang
Hogan Lovells Senior Associate - Sydney
Felipe Zilly
Hogan Lovells Counsel - Dusseldorf
2023 COMBINED SUMMIT SESSIONS
2023 Public Day at Biotech Place Innovation Quarter Winston-Salem
2023 WFIRM/RMF Regenerative Medicine Essentials Course
Symposium Intersection of RegMed & Healthspan
Effective Patient Advocacy - Action Sessions &Workshops
Regenerative Medicine & The Commercial Space Economy
