Plenary Speakers

Florent Ginhoux

Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR),
Singapore

Ryotaro Hashizume

Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Matrix Biology, Mie University Hospital,
Japan

Charlotte Keung

Gastroenterologist and Research Fellow at Monash Health, Monash University, Hudson Institute of Medical Education, Monash University Hospital,
Australia

Ivan Martin

Professor of Tissue Engineering at the Department of Biomedicine, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel,
Switzerland

Tohru Natsume

CSO of the Robotic Biology Institute and Prime Senior Researcher at The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),
Japan

Hideyuki Okano

Professor, Department of Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Keio University,
Japan

President-Elect, International Society for Stem Cell Research; President of the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine

Abhay Pandit

Director of the Centre for Research in Medical Devices, University of Galway,
Ireland

President-Elect, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society

Eva Rohde

Head of the Clinical Department of Transfusion Medicine at the University Hospital Salzburg,
Austria

President-Elect, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society

Dieter Runge

Co-founder and Managing Director, PRIMACYT Cell Culture Technology GmbH,
Germany

Takeshi Saito

Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, and Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California,
United States

Raina Sasaki-Tanaka

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University,
Japan

Stephen Strom

Professor of Cell Transplantation Research at the Department of Laboratory Medicine Karolinska Institutet,
Sweden

Jun Takahashi

Director, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, CIRA,
Japan

Shusen Wang

Director, Cell Therapy, Tianjin First Central Hospital, Tianjin,
People's Republic of China

Hao Yin

Vice President, Director, Department of Organ Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital, Shanghai,
People's Republic of China