International Conference on
Emerging Cell Therapies
October 1-3, 2012 DoubleTree by Hilton Chicago-North Shore, USA
Cell Therapy-2012

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    Deryl Troyer
    Professor
    Department of Anatomy and Physiology
    Kansas State University
    USA
    Tel: 785-532-4509
    Fax: 785-532-4557
     
     
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    Jagat R Kanwar
    Associate Professor
    Department of Immunology
    Deakin University
    Australia
    Tel: 03-52271148
    Fax: 03-5227-1103
     
     
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    Lee Buckler
    Founder & Managing Director
    The Cell Therapy Group
    Division of CTG Consulting, Co.
    USA
    Tel: 778-278-6311
     
     
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    Jimmy Thomas Efird
    Associate Professor
    Center for Health of Vulnerable Populations
    University of North Carolina
    USA
    Tel: 650-248-8282
     
     
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    Prakash S. Bisen
    Professor: DRDE, DRDO
    Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India
    India
     
     
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    Vasiliy Galat
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Pathology
    Feinberg School of Medicine
    USA
    Tel: 773-755-6598
    Fax: 773-755-6385
     
     
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    Christian Drapeau
    Chief Science Officer
    Stemtech Health Sciences Inc.
    USA
    Tel: 949-542-8600
    Fax: 949-542-8617
     
     
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    Ben C Valdez
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Stem Cell Transplantation
    & Cellular Therapy
    UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
    USA
    Tel: 713-745-4370
    Fax:713-792-5673
     
     
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    Samy L Habib
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Medicine
    The University of Texas Health Science Center
    USA
    Tel: 210-567-4699
    Fax: 210-567-4712
     
     
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    Samir A. Farghaly
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Medicine
    Weill Medical College Of Cornell University
    USA
    Tel: 210-567-4699
    Fax: 210-567-4712
     
     
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    Shihuan Kuang
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Animal Sciences
    Purdue University
    USA
    Tel: 765-494-8283
    Fax: 765-494-6816
     
     
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    Morayma Reyes
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Pathology
    University of Washington
    USA
    Tel: 206-616-5004
    Fax: 206-897-1540
     
     
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    Shyamal Dilip Desai
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Biochemistry
    & Molecular Biology
    Louisiana State University
    USA
    Tel: 504-568-4388
    Fax: 504-568-3370
     
     
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    Nady Celine Golestaneh
    Director
    Department of Ophthalmology
    Georgetown University School of Medicine
    USA
    Tel: 202-687-4309
    Fax: 202-687-1823
     
     
    Research Interest :
    Dr. Golestaneh′s lab is committed to researching how aging mechanisms affect the cells and induce diseases such as aged-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among people over 55 years of age in the western world. Recent generation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from somatic cells has the potential to accelerate the implementation of stem cells for clinical treatment of degeneration diseases by bypassing immune rejection and ethical problems using patient-specific iPS cells. Using patient-specific iPS cells Dr. Golestaneh is investigating the mechanisms that induce the AMD and is developing ways to stop this disease from occurring. One of the essential reasons for the lack of understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of human AMD is the absence of reliable experimental models that recapitulate all features of the disease. Generation of AMD patient-specific hiPS cells and subsequent differentiation into retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) would provide in vitro models that are otherwise experimentally unattainable. Golestaneh’s lab has shown that the iPS cells can be differentiated into functional RPE that could be prominent candidates for regeneration therapies inAMD. In addition, the patient-specific iPS cells are used in her lab as an in vitro model to study the genetics of AMD disease and to eventually develop targeted drugs for treatment of AMD. In addition, Golestaneh’s lab is interested in using the human iPS (hiPS) cells as an in vitro model of human aging and has created hiPS cells from young and aged donors to subsequently differentiate them into somatic cells in order to study human aging mechanisms. The iPS cells would be of great interest to elucidate the genetics of human aging mechanisms, since recent studies have shown that telomeres are elongated in iPS cells compared to the parental differentiated cells, and the somatic mitochondria within hiPS cells revert to animmature ESC-like state and hiPS and hES cells, although not identical, share similar mitochondrial properties. In addition she investigates the influence of human KL gene in normal and pathological aging to understand the mechanisms of KL-induced human aging.
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    Bin Hu
    Professor
    Departments of Clinical Neurosciences
    Cell Biology & Anatomy
    University of Calgary
    Canada
    Tel: 403-210-8640
    Fax: 403-283-8731
     
     
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    Chulso Moon
    Director
    Department of Medical Oncology
    The South Western Medical Center
    USA
    Tel: 1-580-531-6400
    Fax: 1-580-531-4681
     
     
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    Gary Guishan Xiao
    Director
    Genomics and Functional
    Proteomics Laboratories
    Creighton University, USA
    Tel: 402-280-5911
    Fax: 402-280-4284
     
     
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    Yujing Li
    Assistant Professor
    Department of Animal Sciences
    Purdue University
    USA
    Tel: 765-494-8283
    Fax: 765-494-6816
     
     
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