Symposium on Ocular Regeneration: Cell Therapy and Regeneration in the Retina
Date and Time
October 23, 2014
08:00AM - 05:00PM EDT
Location
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, The Starr Center, 185 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Boston, MA
Program of the Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute and Harvard Medical School, Department of Ophthalmology
Presented in partnership with the Third International Biennial Symposium on AMD
Click here to register for this event. Registration fee of $150.00 is waived for pre- and post-doctoral fellows.
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM:The Symposium on Ocular Regeneration: Cell Therapy and Regeneration in the Retina will present the current and future state of regeneration and stem cells in eye diseases. This one day meeting, organized by the Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute, will bring together thought leaders in the field to discuss the latest advances, and the potential future of retinal regeneration. Registration: $150.00Free for pre and post doctoral trainees
ORGANIZERS:
Michael Young, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Co-director, Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute
Demetrios Vavvas, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Co-director, Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology Ocular Regenerative Medicine Institute KEYNOTE SPEAKER:Pawan Sinha, PhD
Professor of Vision and Computational Neuroscience,
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT SPEAKERS:
Larry I. Benowitz, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Director, Laboratories for Neuroscience Research in Neurosurgery, Boston Children's Hospital Constance L. Cepko, PhD
Bullard Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience,
Harvard Medical School
Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School Dennis Clegg, PhD
Professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental BiologyUniversity of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)Founder and Co-Director, UCSB Center for Stem Cell Biology and Engineering Robert M. Lavker, PhD
Jack W. Graffin, M.D. Research Professor; Professor in DermatologyNorthwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine Bruce R. Ksander, PhD
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Co-director, Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology Ocular Oncology Center of Excellence; Associate Scientist, Mass. Eye and Ear/Schepens Eye Research Institute Deepak A. Lamba, PhD
Assistant ProfessorBuck Institute for Research on Aging Neville Osborne, PhD
Professor of Ocular Neurobiology, Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford In-Hyun Park, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics; Yale Stem Cell Center Susanna S Park, MD, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, University of California Budd A. Tucker, PhD
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences,
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