11:00am Registration

Featured Speakers

Mechanistic Distinctions Between Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Cancer Cell Proliferation, and Their Therapeutic Implications
Sean Morrison,
University of Michigan Center for Stem Cell Biology, Ann Arbor, MI

Correction of Heart and Skeletal Muscle Defects by Injection of Embryonic Stem Cells Into Early Embryos
Robert Benezra,
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY

Microscale Hepatic Tissue Engineering
Sangeeta Bhatia,
Laboratory for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies, MIT, Cambridge

2:45pm Coffee Break

Stem Cell Renewal and Lineage Selection in Adult Mammalian Epidermis
Fiona Watt,
London Research Institute, London, UK

Regulatory Circuitry of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Richard Young,
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Cambridge

5:00pm Posters and Reception

6:30pm Dinner

HSCI + HBS:  Leveraging Human Capital at Harvard University
William Sahlman
Dimitri V. d’Arbeloff - Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Boston