Program

Meeting Venue

Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center
One John Nolen Drive
Madison, WI 53703  

Speakers & Topics

Diabetes & Metabolic Diseases
Chris Mason, MD, PhD, AVROBIO
Doug Melton, PhD, Harvard University

Hematopoietic Diseases
Boro Dropulić, PhD, MBA, Caring Cross
Donald Kohn, MD, UCLA
Tsvee Lapidot, PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science
Igor I. Slukvin, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

In Utero Cell and Gene Therapy
Tippi Mackenzie, MD, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Charlotte Sumner, MD, Johns Hopkins University

Central Nervous System Diseases
Malin Parmar, PhD, Lund University
Catherine Priest, PhD, Neurona Therapeutics
Leslie Thompson, PhD, UC Irvine

Muscle Disorders 
Christine Mummery, PhD, Leiden University
Seng Cheng, PhD, Pfizer

Cell & Gene Therapy Manufacturing 
Melissa Carpenter, PhD, ElevetaeBio
David Dismuke, PhD, Forge Therapeutics

Visual System
Michele De Luca, MD, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Sally Temple, PhD, Neural Stem Cell Institute

Immuno-Oncology: CAR-T and NK cell therapies
Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Bob Valamehr, PhD, Fate Therapeutics

New Technologies and Future Directions 
Shuibing Chen, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College
Viviana Gradinaru, PhD, California Institute of Technology