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PRELIMINARY AGENDA

Tuesday, February 26

Opening Comments

8:00 am - 8:10 am

Overall Welcome

Robin R. Young, CFA
President and Publisher
RRY Publications

PearlDiver Data, Inc.

8:12 am - 8:32 am

The Art and Science of Stem Cell Therapies

Arnold I. Caplan, PhD
Professor of Biology and
General Medicine Sciences (Oncology)
Case Western Reserve University

 

Cardiovascular

8:34 am - 8:44 am

Harvest Technologies Corp.

Gary D. Tureski, Co-Founder & President

8:46 am - 8:56 am

Cytori Therapeutics , Inc.

ChristopherJ. Calhoun, MBA
Co-Founder & CEO

8:58 am - 9:08 am

Bioheart, Inc.

Howard J. Leonhardt, Founder
Executive Chairman & CTO

9:10 am - 9:20 am

Arteriocyte, Inc.

Vincent Pompili , CEO
Chief Medical Officer

9:22 am - 9:32 am

Athersys, Inc.

William (BJ) Lehmann,
President & COO

9:34 am - 9:44 am

Gamida Cell Ltd.

Yael Margolin, PhD, CEO

9:46 am - 9:56 am

Aastrom Biosciences, Inc.

Sheldon Schaffer, PhD,
VP, Corporate Development
& Intellectual Property

9:58 am - 10:08 am

Geron Corp.

Jane S. Lebkowski, PhD,
Sr. VP - Regenerative Medicine
 
Autoimmune and Anti-Inflammatory

10:10 am - 10:20 am

Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.

C. Randal Mills, PhD
President, CEO & Director

10:22 am - 10:32 am

Genzyme Corporation

Stephen W. Potter, Sr., Vice President

10:34 am - 10:44 am

Progenitor Cell Therapy, Inc.

Robert A. Preti, PhD,
President and Chief Scientific Officer

 

20-Minute Break

 
Hematology / Oncology

11:04 am - 11:14 am

Cleveland BioLabs, Inc.

Michael Fonstein, PhD,
President & CEO

11:16 am - 11:26 am

Aldagen, Inc.

Ed Field, President & COO

11:28 am - 11:38 am

INCELL Corp.

Mary Pat Moyer, PhD
Founder, President, CEO &
Chief Science Officer

11:40 am - 11:50 am

AllCells, LLC

Eric Martinelli ,
Business Development Manager

11:52 am - 12:02 pm

BioE Corp.

Michael Haider, President & CEO

12:04 pm - 12:14 pm

MaxCyte, Inc.

Madhusudan V. Peshwa, PhD,
VP - Research & Development

 
Luncheon Keynote Speakers
12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
Wise Young, MD, PhD, Professor II
Richard H. Shindell Chair in Neuroscience
Founding Director, W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

12:55 pm - 1:15 pm
Thomas R. Lyon, MD
Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery
Asst. Professor Orthopaedic Surgery
Lutheran Medical Center

 
Musculoskeletal

1:30 pm - 1:40 pm

3DM Inc.

Zen Chu, President & Co-Founder

1:42 pm - 1:52 pm

SpineSmith Partners

Robert Johnson, MD

1:54 pm - 2:04 pm

Blackstone Medical /
Orthofix International

Raymond J. Linovitz, MD, FACS
Medical Director

2:06 pm - 2:16 pm

MesoBlast Limited

Silviu Itescu, PhD
Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

2:18 pm - 2:28 pm

TiGenix NV

Luc Dochez, VP Business Development
 
Neurology / Nerve Repair and Regeneration

2:30 pm - 2:40 pm

PrimeGen Biotech LLC

John S. Sundsmo, President

2:42 pm - 2:52 pm

StemCyte Inc.

Kenneth J. Giacin, Chairman & CEO

2:54 pm - 3:04 pm

Stemagen

Samuel H. Wood, MD, PhD
CEO

3:06 pm - 3:16 pm

Tissue Genesis, Inc.

Stuart Williams, PhD
Chief Science Officer

3:18 pm - 3:28 pm

Regenetech, Inc.

David C. Bonner, PhD
Chairman & CEO

3:30 pm - 3:40 pm

Neuronyx, Inc.

Anne Faulkner Schoemaker, CEO

3:42 pm - 3:52 pm

ReNeuron Group

Michael Hunt, CEO
 

Mid-Afternoon Break

 
Expanding the Range of Stem Cell Therapies

4:02 pm - 4:12 pm

Vet-Stem, Inc.

Robert J. Harman, DVM, MPVM
CEO & Founder

4:14 pm - 4:24 pm

Stemina, Inc.

Gabriela Cezar, DVM, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer

4:26 pm - 4:36 pm

Cognate BioServices, Inc.

Aaron H. Heifetz , PhD
VP Business Development

4:38 pm - 4:48 pm

VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc.

H. Ralph Snodgrass, PhD
President & CEO

4:50 pm - 5:00 pm

Novocell, Inc.

Alan J. Lewis, PhD
President, CEO & Director

5:02 pm - 5:12 pm

NeoStem, Inc.

Robin Smith, PhD
President & CEO
 
5:15 pm - 5:30 pm
New York's Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson
5:32 pm - 5:42 pm
Closing Remarks
"Problems, Challenges and Promises"
Robin R. Young, CFA
 

5:45 pm - 7:00 pm Reception and Networking

 

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