Venue: The University of Sheffield, Student Union Auditorium
Date: Tuesday 14th July 2009

The Centre for Stem Cell Biology is pleased to announce that it will be
hosting it's 8th annual, One Day International Symposium
"Human Embryonic Stem Cells - Progress Towards Cell Therapy".

Prof Sian Harding
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
“Cardiomyocytes from hESC: pathways for growth and survival”

Dr Marisa Jaconi
Dept of Pathology and Immunology, The University of Geneva, Switzerland
“Human ES cells in Switzerland: from ethico-juridical difficulties to research and potential therapies for heart repair”

Dr Majlinda Lako
Institute of Human Genetics and NESCI, The University of Newcastle
"G1 to S transition and pluripotency: two sides of the same coin?"

Dr Tushar Raina,
Cardiovascular Sciences, School of Medicine, The University of Sheffield
“Regenerative stents to treat coronary artery disease”

Dr Marcelo Rivolta
CSCB, Dept of Biomedical Science, The University of Sheffield
"Human Auditory Stem Cells: Developing the tools for a stem cell-based therapy for deafness"

Prof Peter Zandstra
Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
“Non-Cell Autonomous Control of Stem Cell Fate”

Dr Bart Vandekerckhove
Dept of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, The University of Ghent, Belgium
"Generation of T Cells from Human Embryonic Stem Cells"

Registration details available from side bar, or here