Stem Cells and Regeneration (Q6)
January 22-25, 2024  | Santa Fe Community Convention Center, Santa Fe, NM, United States
Heinrich Jasper and Emmanuelle Passegué
Scholarship Deadline: Oct. 30, 2023 | Abstract Deadline: Oct. 30, 2023 | Early Registration Deadline: Nov. 21, 2023
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of August 23, 2025 8 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Monday, January 22, 2024
4:00–8:00 PM Arrival and Registration Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Sweeney Ballroom F
7:30–8:00 AM Poster Setup Sweeney Ballroom F
8:00–9:30 AM Welcome and Keynote Session (Joint) Sweeney Ballroom A-B
  Drew Weissman, University of Pennsylvania
In vivo LNP-mRNA Therapies
 
  Juan Carlos Izpisua-Belmonte, Altos Labs
in vivo Reprogramming for Rejuvenation
 
8:00–7:00 PM Poster Viewing Sweeney Ballroom F
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
9:50–11:15 AM Cell Engineering and Regenerative Therapies (Joint) Sweeney Ballroom A-B
  Yvonne Y. Chen, University of California, Los Angeles
Programming Novel Cancer Therapeutics
 
  Masayo Takahashi, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology
Cell and Gene Therapy for Retinal Regeneration
 
  Vardhman Kumar, MIT
Short Talk: Short Talk: Injectable and Modular Multicellular Liver Tissue Engineering
 
  Irene Lorenzo Llorente, Stanford University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Allogeneic Regenerative Cell Therapy for White Matter Stroke and Vascular Dementia
 
11:30–12:30 PM Lunch Sweeney Ballroom F
12:00–2:30 PM Poster Session 1 Sweeney Ballroom F
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable (Joint)
  Samik Basu, Cabaletta Bio
Chief Scientific Officer
 
  Maria Pia E. Cosma, Centre for Genomic Regulation
ICREA Research Professor and Senior Scientist
 
  Katy Rezvani, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Professor
 
  Quinton Smith, University of California, Irvine
Assistant Professor
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Retinal and Circadian Regeneration Sweeney Ballroom C-E
  Thomas A. Reh, University of Washington
in vivo Reprogramming in the Retina
 
  Maria Pia E. Cosma, Centre for Genomic Regulation
Cell Fusion and Reprogramming in the Eye
 
  David R. Hyde, University of Notre Dame
Short Talk: Short Talk: Effect of Retinal Damage and Müller Glia Reprogramming on Molecular Clock
 
  Brian Hafler, Yale University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Single-cell Cross-species Analysis Reveals Pathways Limiting Regeneration in the Human Retina
 
7:00–8:00 PM On Own for Dinner
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Sweeney Ballroom F
8:00–11:00 AM Lung Regeneration Sweeney Ballroom C-E
  Irene Wong, Harvard University/Boston Children's Hospital
Alveolar Macrophages Mediate Tissue-wide Responses to Airway Injury
 
  Nan Tang, National Institute of Biological Sciences
Alveolar Regeneration
 
  Thomas K. Waddell, University of Toronto
Stem Cell Therapies for Lung Regeneration
 
  Jason Rock, Genentech
Immune Regulation of Lung Regeneration
 
  Camilla Predella, Columbia University
Short Talk: Short Talk: Injury Repair in Regionally Conditioned Rat Lung in vivo
 
  Irit Milman Krentsis, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Short Talk: Short Talk: Lung Cell Transplantation for Pulmonary Fibrosis
 
  Marie-Thérèse Bammert, Boehringer Ingelheim
Short Talk: Short Talk: A Bittersweet Symphony - OGlcNAc Orchestrates the Progression of Pulmonary Fibrosis
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup Sweeney Ballroom F
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing Sweeney Ballroom F
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
5:00–7:00 PM Muscle and Heart Regeneration Sweeney Ballroom C-E
  James F. Martin, Baylor College of Medicine
Hippo Signaling and Cardiac Regeneration
 
  Thomas Braun, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research
Cardiac Reprogramming
 
  Pura Muñoz Cánoves, Altos Labs
Cell Therapy and Reprogramming in the Eye
 
  Fansen Meng, The Texas Heart Institute
Short Talk: Short Talk: Transient YAP-on Gene Therapy Provides Prolonged Protection against Cardiac Injury
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Sweeney Ballroom F
7:30–10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Sweeney Ballroom F
Thursday, January 25, 2024
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast Sweeney Ballroom F
8:00–11:00 AM Rejuvenation Sweeney Ballroom C-E
  Amy J. Wagers, Harvard University
Stem Cell Aging and Rejuvenation
 
  Heinrich Jasper, Genentech, Inc. and Buck Institute for Research on Aging
in vivo Reprogramming for Rejuvenation
 
  Quinton Smith, University of California, Irvine
Regenerative Vascular Tissue Engineering
 
  Melissa Proven, Columbia University Medical Center
Short Talk: Short Talk: Understanding How Metabolic Intervention Rejuvenates Aged Hematopoietic Stem Cells
 
  Semir Beyaz, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Short Talk: Short Talk: Dietary Arachidonic Acid Induces Stem Cell Plasticity to Promote Tissue Resilience
 
  Timothy Arthur, University of California, San Diego
Short Talk: An Atlas of Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Regulatory Variation in Human Induced Stem Cells and Derived Tissues
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available Sweeney Ballroom Foyer
5:00–6:45 PM HSC and Gene Therapy (Joint) Sweeney Ballroom A-B
  Emmanuelle Passegué, Columbia University
Metabolic and Stress Regulation of HSCs
 
  Raffaella Di Micco, Ospedale San Raffaele
Mechanistic Insights to Advance HSC-Based Gene and Cell Therapies
 
  Donald B. Kohn, University of California, Los Angeles
HSC Gene Therapy for Immunodeficiencies
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Joint) (Organizers) Sweeney Ballroom A-B
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Sweeney Ballroom F
8:00–9:00 PM Cash Bar Sweeney Ballroom F
Friday, January 26, 2024
7:00–11:59 PM Departure