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Stem Cells 2010
15 February - 16 February 2010
Stem Cells 2010

The conference listed on this page was held in February 2010. For information on the 2011 conference go to www.stemcells-event.com 

 

Stem Cells Conference

  

 

Dr Thomas Okarma, CEO & President, Geron  

 

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Introductions and expectations

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9:00

What makes a patentable invention?

  • Patentable subject-matter
  • Patentability requirements
     
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    9:15

    Effective Deal architecture and structure

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    9:45

    Managing partnerships to deliver on expectation - Introduction of key concepts

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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    10:45

    Morning Coffee

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    10:45

    Exceptions to patentability

  • Rules 28 and 29 EPC and the WARF Referral
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    11:00

    Managing partnerships to deliver on expectation - In depth discussion

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    12:15

    Networking Lunch

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    12:30

    Surgery - Access the workshop leaders' expertise to resolve the live issues you face today

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    12:55

    Wrap-up and close of workshop

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    13:15

    The position in Europe, UK, Japan, China and India

  • Drafting, filing and prosecution strategies for world-wide protection
  • The patent landscape for iPS cells
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    14:45

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:00

    Worked examples and discussion session

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    16:00

    End of Day

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Professor Dame Julia Polak

    Professor Dame Julia Polak, , Imperial College, London

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    9:10

    Stem Cells - Where are we now? Where are we going?

    Professor Dame Julia Polak

    Professor Dame Julia Polak, , Imperial College, London

  • Existing research
  • Current developments
  • The future
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    9:30

    Stem cells and the treatment of retinal degeneration

    Lyndon da Cruz

    Lyndon da Cruz, Consultant Vitreo-Retinal Surgeon, Moorfields Eye Hospital

  • What is dry AMD?
  • Growing RPE cells from embryonic stem cell lines
  • Progress of trials
  • Support from Pfizer
  • Applying for MHRA approval
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    10:05

    Stem cells and neurodegenerative conditions

    Roger Barker

    Roger Barker, Reader, Cambridge Institute for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge

  • Neural stem cell behaviour
  • Potential therapy development
  • Progress to date
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    10:40

    Morning Coffee

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    11:10

    Pfizer and regenerative medicine

    Paul Whiting

    Paul Whiting, Site Lead and Executive Director, Pfizer Regenerative Medicine

  • Internal and external investments
  • Platforms for regenerative medicine within a pharmaceutical company
  • Challenges of a stem cell therapy
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    11:45

    Creating bone like materials from stem cells

    Molly Stevens

    Molly Stevens, Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine, Imperial College London

  • Latest research
  • Differing cell types
  • Quality of bone like material produced
  • Next steps
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    12:20

    Developing therapies for chronic liver disease

    Stuart Forbes

    Stuart Forbes, Professor of Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh

  • Possibilities of stem cell therapy
  • Research to date
  • Liver fibrosis
  • Liver cancer
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    12:55

    Networking Lunch

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    14:10

    Magnetic targeting and imaging of stem cells

    Mark Lythgoe

    Mark Lythgoe, Director , Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging

  • Introduction to magnetic nanoparticles for imaging, targeting and hyperthermia in stem cells
  • Enhanced uptake of stem cells using magnetic targeting in vascular damage
  • High-field MRI of stem cell homing to lung metastases
  • Novel MRI contrast agents for stem cell tracking
  • MRI investigation of the therapeutic potential of Amniotic Fluid Stem cells
  • Magnetic nanoparticles as a hyperthermic therapy following stem cell delivery
     
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    14:45

    Cancer stem cells as therapeutic targets

    Malcolm Alison

    Malcolm Alison, Professor of Stem Cell Biology, Centre for Diabetes, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry

  • Normal stem cells and the origins of cancer
  • Prospective identification of cancer stem cells
  • EMT as a major force in tumour progression
  • Overcoming the radio-and chemoresistance of cancer stem cells
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    15:20

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:50

    Induced pluripotent stem cells - Potential and reliability

    Marc Lalande

    Marc Lalande, Professor and Chairman, University of Connecticut Health Centre

  • Assessing advances and research in iPS cells
  • hESC VS iPSC
  • Reliability of iPS cells as models of human disease
  • Benefits for drug development
     
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    16:25

    Cardiovascular disease modelling

    Sian Harding

    Sian Harding, Professor of Cardiac Pharmacology, National Heart and Lung Institute , Imperial College London

  • Stem cell based disease modelling
  • Cardiomyocyte function
  • Benefits of stem cell disease modelling
     
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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Cathy Prescott

    Cathy Prescott, Director, Biolatris

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    9:10

    Effective clinical trials

    Tom Okarma

    Tom Okarma, Chief Executive Officer & President, Geron

  • Developing effective trials of GRNOPC1
  • Achieving Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance
  • Phase 1 trials
  • Procedures
  • Measuring efficacy
  • Timescales and endpoints 
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    9:50

    Ethical considerations of stem cell science

    Søren Holm

    Søren Holm, Professor, Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester

  • What are the objections?
  • Embryonic stem cells
  • Therapeutic cloning
  • iPS cells
  • Reacting to public interest
  • Education
     
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    Regulatory status of stem cell science

    Glyn Stacey

    Glyn Stacey, Director, UK Stem Cell Bank

  • European regulatory developments
  • Global regulatory developments
  • How do regulations impact on research and technology?
     
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    11:40

    Boosting stem cell numbers in the blood: a pharmacological approach to regenerative medicine

    Sara Rankin

    Sara Rankin, Reader in Leukocyte and Stem Cell Biology, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London

  • Stem cell trafficking in vivo
  • Stimulating mobilization of endogenous progenitor cells from the bone marrow into the blood
  • Use of Mozobil and VEGF
  • Potential treatments
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    12:25

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    Stem cells & regenerative medicine; a licensing perspective

    Huseyin  Mehmet

    Huseyin Mehmet, Director Exploratory Biomarkers, Merck Research Laboratories

  • Knowing what Merck wants
  • Processes.
  • Opportunities & utilities.
  • Thresholds, realism & limits
     
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    14:30

    Mozobil [Plerixafor] and stem cell mobilisation

    Sunil Navani

    Sunil Navani, Medical Director - Oncology & Transplantation , Genzyme

  • Stem cell mobilisation
  • CXCR4 antagonism - clinical development and future applications
     
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    15:10

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    Developing small molecule regenerative drugs

    Yen Choo

    Yen Choo, Chief Executive Officer, Plasticell

  • Proliferation and differentiation of stem cells
  • Tissue development and repair
  • Alliances
  • Funding
     
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    16:20

    Stem cells, acquisitions and strategic alliances

    Alain Vertès

    Alain Vertès, Global Alliance Director, F.Hoffman-La Roche

  • Practicalities of alliances
  • Benefits
  • Long term plans

     

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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two

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