Levine-Riggs Diabetes Research Symposium Program
Breakfast
Session 1: Cell Therapy Management, Economics, and Regulatory Landscape of Cell Replacement For T1D
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)
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)
Lunch
Session 3: Technologies/-Omics & Metabolic Imaging: Targeted Drug Delivery In Vivo
Raghu Mirmira, MD, PhD (The University of Chicago, IL)
David Hodson, PhD (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Zhen Chen, PhD (City of Hope, CA)
Symposium Dinner
Breakfast
Session 4: Circadian Rhythm in Stem Cell Programming and Islet Function
Aleksey Matveyenko, PhD (Mayo Clinic, MN)
Juan Alvarez, PhD (University of Pennsylvania, PA)
Session 5: Immunomodulatory Therapy: Car T Regs; Beta Cell Targeting T Regs
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)
Lunch
Session 6: Immunomodulatory Therapy: Next Generation Immunotherapies
Mike Haller, MD (University of Florida, FL)
Alberto Pugliese, MD (City of Hope, CA)
C. Bruce Verchere, PhD (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
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 (University of Colorado Anschutz, CO)
Poster Session Reception
Breakfast
Session 8: 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)
Session 9: 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, PhD (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
Lunch
Session 10: Technologies/-Omics & Metabolic Imaging: Beta Cell Mass Imaging
Angela Kruse, PhD (The Ohio State University, OH)
Jordan Wright, MD, PhD (Vanderbilt University, TN)
Session 11: Cell Regenerative Therapies
Patrick Collombat, PhD (Institute of Biology Valrose, 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, CA)
Social Hour Reception
Breakfast
Session 12: 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)
Session 13: The Past and Future of the GLP-1 RA Drug Class
Meeting Adjourns