Levine-Riggs Diabetes Research Symposium Program
7:00 AM - Breakfast
8:00 AM - Session 1: Cell Therapy Management, Economics, and Regulatory Landscape of Cell Replacement For T1D (ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION)
Matthias von Herrath, MD (Eli Lilly & Co, CA)
Piotr Witkowski, MD, PhD (The University of Chicago Medicine, IL)
Fouad Kandeel, MD, PhD (City of Hope, CA)
Lorenzo Piemonti, MD (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy)
9:15 AM - Break
9:30 AM - Session 2: Gene-Edited Stem Cells-The Emerging Research to Protect Cells
Dhavalkumar Patel, MD, PhD (Sana Biotechnology, WA)
Jonathan Kurtz, PhD (Century Therapeutics, MA)
Stephan Kissler, PhD (Vertex Pharmaceuticals, MA)
Early Career Talk: Xuejing Liu, PhD (City of Hope, Duarte)
11:15 AM - Lunch
12:45 PM - Session 3: Technologies/-Omics & Metabolic Imaging: Targeted Drug Delivery In Vivo
Raghu Mirmira, MD, PhD (The University of Chicago, IL)
David Hodson, DVM, PhD (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Zhen Chen, PhD (City of Hope, CA)
Early Career Talk: Jiawei (Joyce) Sun, PhD (City of Hope, CA)
2:30 PM - Break
2:45 PM - Hot Topic Talk
Christian Hendershot, PhD (University of Southern California, CA)
3:15 PM - Break
3:25 PM - Session 4: Circadian Rhythm in Stem Cell Programming and Islet Function
Aleksey Matveyenko, PhD (Mayo Clinic, MN)
Juan Alvarez, PhD (University of Pennsylvania, PA)
Christine Doucette, PhD (University of Manitoba, Canada)
Early Career Talk: Sushil Rane (NIDDK/NIH, MD)
6:15 PM - Symposium Dinner and Arthur Riggs Award Keynote Talk
Lori Sussel, PhD (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, CO)
7:00 AM - Breakfast
8:00 AM - Session 5: Immunomodulatory Therapy: Next Generation Immunotherapies
Michael Haller, MD (University of Florida, FL)
Alberto Pugliese, MD (City of Hope, CA)
C. Bruce Verchere, PhD (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Early Career Talk: Karoliina Tuomela, PhD (BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Canada)
9:45 AM - Break
10:00 AM - Rachmiel Levine Award Keynote Talk
David Nathan, MD (Massachusetts General Hospital, MA)
10:35 AM - Break
10:50 AM - Session 6: Immunomodulatory Therapy: Car T Regs; Beta Cell Targeting T Regs
Dalia Gaddis, PhD (GentiBio Inc., MA)
Thomas Malek, PhD (University of Miami, FL)
Leonardo M.R. Ferreira, PhD (Medical University of South Carolina, SC)
Yang Xiao, MD, PhD (Central South University, China)
1:00 PM - On Own For Rest of Day - Boxed Lunch (to go)
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7:00 AM - Breakfast
8:00 AM - Session 7: Immunomodulatory Therapy: Immune Cells/Beta Cells
Kodi Ravichandran, PhD (Washington University in St. Louis, MO)
Rachel Bonami, PhD (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, TN)
Maki Nakayama, MD, PhD (University of Colorado Anschutz, CO)
Early Career Talk: Joanna Filipowska, PhD (City of Hope, CA)
9:45 AM - Break
10:00 AM - Session 8: Intra- and Extra-Islet Communication
Per-Olof Berggren, PhD (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
Huixia Ren, PhD (Chinese Institutes for Medical Research, China)
Joana Almaca, PhD (University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL)
Hung-Ping (Ben) Shih, PhD (City of Hope, CA)
12:00 PM - Lunch
1:30 PM - Session 9: Beta Cell Regenerative Therapies
Patrick Collombat, PhD (INSERM, France)
Andrew Stewart, MD (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY)
Juan Domínguez-Bendala, PhD (University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, FL)
Mini Balakrishnan, PhD (Biomea Fusion Inc., CA)
3:30 PM - Break
3:45 PM - Session 10: Technologies/-Omics & Metabolic Imaging: Beta Cell Mass Imaging
Angela Kruse, PhD (The Ohio State University, OH)
Jason Bini, PhD (Yale School of Medicine, CT)
Jordan Wright, MD, PhD (Vanderbilt University, TN)
Early Career Talk: Jyoti Rana, PhD (City of Hope, CA)
5:45 PM - Poster Session and Social Hour Reception with Music
7:00 AM - Breakfast
8:00 AM - Session 11: Technologies/-Omics & Metabolic Imaging: Transcriptomics in T1D
Matthew Ishahak, PhD (University of Miami, FL)
Nick Owens, PhD (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
Yan Li, PhD (Case Western Reserve University, OH)
Early Career Talk: Leah Kebrom (City of Hope, CA)
9:45 AM - Break
10:00 AM - Session 12: Technologies/-Omics & Metabolic Imaging: Spatial/Metabolic Imaging in T1D
Rafael Arrojo e Drigo, PhD (Vanderbilt University, TN)
Todd Brusko, PhD (University of Florida, FL)
Francesca Spagnoli, MD, PhD (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
Early Career Talk: Xueyan Xu, PhD (City of Hope, CA)
11:45 AM - Meeting Adjourns - Boxed Lunch (to go)