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2021 WSCS AND RME COURSE SPEAKERS

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Julie Allickson, PhD — Julie Allickson, PhD
Director for Mayo Clinic's Center for Regenerative Medicine

Kersti Alm, PhD — Kersti Alm, PhD
CSO at Phase Holographic Imaging (PHI), Lund, Sweden

Graca Almeida-Porada, MD, PhD — Graca Almeida-Porada, MD, PhD
Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Daniel Anderson, PhD — Daniel Anderson, PhD
Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology; David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research

Anthony Atala, MD — Anthony Atala, MD
Director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Snady Barker — Sandy Barker
President and Co-Founder of Gold Rush Cure Foundation

Karen Barnes — Karen Barnes
Founding CEO of Agile City

Steven Bauer, PhD — Steven Bauer, PhD
Chief Regulatory Science Affairs Program Officer for WFIRM

Steven Becker, PhD — Steven Becker, PhD
Associate Director, Office of Regenerative Medicine, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

Frederick Blume — Frederick Blume
Consultant and Chief Business Incubator Officer, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Jake R. Boy — Jake R. Boy
Senior Application Scientist at Scientific Bioprocessing, USA

Robert Boles — Robert Boles
President of Winston Starts

Arnold Caplan, PhD — Arnold Caplan, PhD
Professor, Biology; Director of the Skeletal Research Center at Case Western Reserve University

Harry Carson — Harry Carson
Former American football inside linebacker who played for the New York Giants of the National Football League

Phil Cestaro — Phil Cestaro
Executive Director, CTN2

Dr. Nathan Chomilo — Dr. Nathan Chomilo
Medicaid Medical Director, Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS)

Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD — Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD
Director U.S. National Institutes of Health

Tracy Criswell, PhD — Tracy Criswell, PhD
Associate Professor Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Marie Csete, MD, PhD — Marie Csete, MD, PhD
Former CSO for the California Institutes of Regenerative Medicine

Leah Ke‘ala‘aumoe Dowsett, MD — Leah Ke‘ala‘aumoe Dowsett, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at University of Hawai‘i John A. Burns School of Medicine

Jyothi Devakumar, PhD — Jyothi Devakumar, PhD
Director of International Regulatory Affairs Healthspan Action Coalition

Michael Druckman — Michael Druckman
Partner and Chair of Hogan Lovells’ Cell, Tissue, and Gene Therapies Industry Group

Ysabel Duron — Ysabel Duron
President, The Latino Cancer Institute (TLCI)

Koji Eto, MD, PhD — Koji Eto, MD, PhD
Professor, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University Professor of Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan

Jennifer Elisseef, PhD — Jennifer Elisseef, PhD
Wilmer Eye Institute and BME Translational Center, Johns Hopkins

Temitayo Famoroti , MD — Temitayo Famoroti , MD
Clinical Virologist and former National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) of South Africa, Covid-19 response team (GIANT).

John P. Fisher, PhD — John P. Fisher, PhD
Professor; Department Chair, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland

Jaime R. Garza, MD, DDS, FACS — 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

Steven Gifford, AIA — Steven Gifford, AIA
Principal and Science and Technology Practice Leader at Perkins Eastman

Marc Giulianotti, PhD — Marc Giulianotti, PhD
Senior Program Director, CASIS

Marilyn Glassberg, MD — Marilyn Glassberg, MD
University of Arizona College of Medicine -Phoenix and Banner- University Medical Center Phoenix

Steven R. Goodman, PhD — Steven R. Goodman, PhD
Vice Chancellor for Research, UTHSC

Riccardo Gottardi, PhD — Riccardo Gottardi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics; Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

Sibylle Grad, PhD, PD — Sibylle Grad, PhD, PD
AO Research Institute Davos, Switzerland

Hank Greely — Hank Greely
Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University

Aubrey de Grey, PhD — Aubrey de Grey, PhD
President & Chief Science Officer LEV Foundation

Robert Guldberg — Robert Guldberg
Vice President and Robert and Leona DeArmond Executive Director Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact University of Oregon

Natalia Gulyaeva — Natalia Gulyaeva
Hogan Lovells - Moscow, Russia

Jacqueline Hantgan — Jacqueline Hantgan
Director of Outreach & Advocacy, Americans for Cures

Joshua M. Hare, MD — Joshua M. Hare, MD
Director, Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Alicia D. Henn, PhD, MBA — Alicia D. Henn, PhD, MBA
Chief Scientific Officer, BioSpherix, Ltd.

Akitsu Hotta, PhD — Akitsu Hotta, PhD
Junior Associate Professor at CiRA, Kyoto University

Joshua Hunsberger, PhD — Joshua Hunsberger, PhD
Chief Technology Officer, RegenMed Development Organization (ReMDO); Executive Director, Regenerative Medicine Manufacturing Society (RMMS)

John Jackson, PhD — John Jackson, PhD
Associate Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Mandi Jacobson — Mandi Jacobson
Hogan Lovells - Sydney, Australia

Deepak Jain, PhD — Deepak Jain, PhD
Chief Operating Officer at ProKidney

Amritha Jaishankar, PhD — Amritha Jaishankar, PhD
Executive Director Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund

Alan Jakimo, JD — Alan Jakimo, JD
Senior Public Policy Research Fellow Regenerative Medicine Foundation

David Jin, MD, PhD — David Jin, MD, PhD
President and CEO of Avalon Globocare Corp

Tom Kalil — Tom Kalil
Chief Innovation Officer at Schmidt Futures

Y. James Kang, PhD — Y. James Kang, PhD
Chief Scientist, TennIRM

Babak Kateb, MD — Babak Kateb, MD
Founding Chairman of the Board of SBMT and Brain Mapping Foundation

Brian Kennedy, PhD — Brian Kennedy, PhD
Professor at the National University Singapore, Director of National University Health Systems Centre for Healthy Longevity

Nancy King, JD — 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

Melissa King — Melissa King
Chief Operating Officer and Founding Board Member of Healthspan Action Coalition

Robert Klein — Robert Klein
Chairman and Author, California Stem Cell Research, Treatment & Cures Initiative of 2020, Chairman and President, Klein Financial Corporation

Danielle Guttman Klein — Danielle Guttman Klein
Co-Chair of The California Stem Cell Research, Treatments, and Cures Initiative of 2020

Robert N. Klein III — Robert N. Klein III
Director of Public Policy and Governmental Affairs – Americans for Cures, Deputy Campaign Manager – YES on CA Prop-14, Director of Governmental Affairs & Asset Manager – Klein Financial Corporation

James Kovach MD, JD — James Kovach MD, JD
Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of California Davis Health System, Chief Innovation Officer of Aggie Square

Bradford Kuhlman, MS — Bradford Kuhlman, MS
Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Joanne Kurtzberg, MD — Joanne Kurtzberg, MD
Professor of Pediatrics & Pathology, Director, Marcus Center for Cellular Cures (MC3), Director, Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Director, Carolinas Cord Blood Bank at Duke

Robert LeBoyer — Robert LeBoyer
Senior Equity Research Analyst, Noble Capital Markets, Biotechnology

Laura Lee — Laura Lee
Senior Vice President of Economic Development for Winston-Salem, NC

Sang Jin Lee, PhD — Sang Jin Lee, PhD
Associate Professor (Tenured), Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine Deputy Director, Tissue Engineering Program; Director, Biofabrication Core Wake Forest School of Medicine

Terri A. Lewis, PhD — Terri A. Lewis, PhD
Director General (GIANT)

Daniel Kracov — Daniel Kracov
Co-chair of Arnold & Porter’s global Life Sciences and Healthcare Regulatory practice

Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD — Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Connecticut, CEO Connecticut Convergence Institute for Translation in Regenerative Engineering at UConn

Diana Lim — Diana Lim
PhD candidate in Molecular Medicine and Translational Science program at Wake Forest

Jeanne Loring, PhD — Jeanne Loring, PhD
Advisor to Aspen Neuroscience, Professor Emeritus Scripps Research

Peihua (Peggy) Lu, MD — Peihua (Peggy) Lu, MD
Medical Executive President of Lu Daopei Hospital and Lu Daopei Institute of Hematology

Steven Lynum — Steven Lynum
Vice President Corporate Development & Strategy Epredia - Executive Director, Global Business Development PHC Corporation

Yo Mabuchi, PhD — Yo Mabuchi, PhD
Assistant professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, JAPAN.

Keith March, MD, PhD, FACC — Keith March, MD, PhD, FACC
Professor of Medicine, UF Division of Cardiology, Director, UF Center for Regenerative Medicine

Janet Marchibroda — Janet Marchibroda
President, Alliance for Cell Therapy Now

Frank Marini, PhD — Frank Marini, PhD
Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Zubin Master, PhD — Zubin Master, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Ethics Biomedical Ethics Research Program and Center for Regenerative Medicine Mayo Clinic

Michael H. May PhD — Michael H. May PhD
President & CEO Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine

Andrea Mazzocchi, PhD — Andrea Mazzocchi, PhD
Co-founder and CEO of Known Medicine, an oncology diagnostics company

Tony Mikos, PhD — Tony Mikos, PhD
Louis Calder Professor, Department of Bioengineering, BioScience Research Collaborative, Rice University

Maria Millan, MD — Maria Millan, MD
President and CEO of California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM)

Milan Mishkovikj, Msc. — Milan Mishkovikj, Msc.
ELPA Board Director, Vice President of the Alliance of Patients' Organizations in Macedonia – APO, Member of Advisory Board Project HAREACT

Ron Mix — Ron Mix
Former professional football player that played as Offensive Lineman for the Los Angeles Chargers

Claude T. Moorman, III, MD — Claude T. Moorman, III, MD
President, Atrium Health Musculoskeletal Institute; Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery

Lorenzo Moroni, PhD — Lorenzo Moroni, PhD
Professor at Maastricht University, MERLN Institute, Dept. of Complex Tissue Regeneration, The Netherlands

Ann Murphy, PhD — Ann Murphy, PhD
founding editor for STEM CELLS, The Oncologist, and STEM CELLS Translational Medicine

Sean-Murphy — Sean Murphy, PhD
Associate Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Kiran Musunuru — Kiran Musunuru, MD
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Genetics Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania

Karina Nakayama, PhD — Karina Nakayama, PhD
Professor, Oregon Health and Science University

Gail Naughton, PhD — Gail Naughton, PhD
Chairman and CEO, Histogen, Inc.

Jan A. Nolta, PhD — Jan A. Nolta, PhD
Director of the Stem Cell Program at University of California Davis School of Medicine

Bart Oates — Bart Oates
President, NFL Alumni Association

Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD — Hideyuki Okano, MD, PhD
Dean and Professor, Keio University Graduate School of Medicine, President of Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine

Christopher Porada, PhD — Christopher Porada, PhD
Professor, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Graham Parker, PhD — Graham Parker, PhD
Professor Department of Pediatrics Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit, MI

Gary M. Pigeau, PhD — Gary M. Pigeau, PhD
Director Centre for Advanced Therapeutic Cell Technologies Cytiva

Tina D. Purnat, MS — Tina D. Purnat, MS
Technology Director EU CDC, formerly with Emergency Response and Technical Director of the Infodemic Management program at the World Health Organization in Geneva (WHO)

Wenchun Qu, MD, MS, PhD — Wenchun Qu, MD, MS, PhD
Vice-Chair, Research and Innovation, Department of Pain Management and Director of Regenerative Pain Medicine, Mayo Clinic

Shefali Raichaudhuri, AIA, LEED AP — Shefali Raichaudhuri, AIA, LEED AP
Associate Practice Leader for Science & Technology and Senior Associate / Registered Architect with Perkins Eastman

Mahendra S. Rao, MD, PhD — Mahendra S. Rao, MD, PhD
Ceo panCELLa & Consultant-Regenerative Medicine

Jenifer Raub — Jenifer Raub
Patient Advocate for Parkinson’s disease; President, Summit for Stem Cell Foundation, Inc.

Russ Reed — Russ Reed
Executive Director National Center for the Biotechnology Workforce (NCBW)

Beasley Reece — Beasley Reece
CEO, NFL Alumni

Brock Reeve — Brock Reeve
Executive Director Harvard Stem Cell Institute

William (Bill) Remak — William (Bill) Remak
Senior Advisor, Coordinator at Global Immunization Action Network Team (GIANT)

Camillo Ricordi, MD — Camillo Ricordi, MD
Professor of Surgery and Director, Diabetes Research Institute and Cell Transplant Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Beth E. Roxland, JD, M.Bioethics — Beth E. Roxland, JD, M.Bioethics
Senior Consultant on Law, Health Policy and Ethics

Yoji Sato, PhD — Yoji Sato, PhD
Head, Division of Cell-Based Therapeutic Products National Institute of Health Sciences, Kanagawa, Japan

Joan Schanck, MPA — Joan Schanck, MPA
Chief Education Program Officer, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Adrienne Shapiro — Adrienne Shapiro
Founder, Axis Advocacy for Sickle Cell Disease Education and Support

Bernard Siegel, JD — Bernard Siegel, JD
Executive Director, Regenerative Medicine Foundation

Professor Uwe B. Sleytr, Ph.D. — Professor Uwe B. Sleytr, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Full member, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Robin Smith, MD, MBA — Robin Smith, MD, MBA
Founder, President and Chairman Cura Foundation

Evan Y. Snyder, MD, PhD., FAAP — Evan Y. Snyder, MD, PhD., FAAP
Professor and Program Director, Stem Cells and Regeneration Program Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Stemmy the Stem Cell — Stemmy the Stem Cell
Ambassador for Stem Cell Research

Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD — Takanori Takebe, MD, PhD
Director of Commercial Innovation in Center for Stem Cell & Organoid Medicine, Associate Professor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Masayo Takahashi MD, PhD — Masayo Takahashi MD, PhD
President of Vision Care, Inc.

Arne Thiermann, LL.M, (LSE) — Arne Thiermann, LL.M, (LSE)
Hogan Lovells - Hamburg, Germany

Jonathan Thomas, PhD, JD — Jonathan Thomas, PhD, JD
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Chairman of the Board, Chair of the ICOC, Governing Board

Gabor J. Tigyi, MD, PhD — Gabor J. Tigyi, MD, PhD
Executive Director, TennIRM

Alessio Tropeano — Alessio Tropeano
Vice President at CBRE

Thomas C. Tubon, PhD — Thomas C. Tubon, PhD
Director, NSF ATE Coordination Network: Advanced Manufacturing for Cell & Tissue-based Products (DUE 1801123) Biotechnology Faculty, Madison College

Joseph P. Vacanti, MD — Joseph P. Vacanti, MD
John Homans Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD — Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD
Professor, Columbia University

Bill Wagner, PhD — Bill Wagner, PhD
Director, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Jeff Wallerstein — Jeff Wallerstein
Chief Financial Officer of NYSCF

Dr. Victoria Weis — Dr. Victoria Weis
Instructor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM)

David Williams, DSc — David Williams, DSc
Professor and Director of International Affairs, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Michael Yaszemski, MD, PhD — Michael Yaszemski, MD, PhD
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering and director Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Laboratory at Mayo Clinic

James Yoo, MD, PhD — James Yoo, MD, PhD
Chief Operations Program Officer, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Brad Zackson — Brad Zackson
Director of Development at Dynamic Star

Fanyi Zeng — Fanyi Zeng
Professor and Director , Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Medical Genetics

Feng Zhang, PhD — Feng Zhang, PhD
Member of the Broad Institute, Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Professor of Neuroscience at MIT, Howard Hughes Medical Investigator

Shuguang Zhang, PhD — Shuguang Zhang, PhD
Laboratory of Molecular Architecture Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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