#  Symposium on Ocular Regeneration: Cell Therapy and Regeneration in the Retina 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 23, 2014** 

 08:00AM - 05:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop 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](https://www.cvent.com/events/cell-therapy-and-regeneration-in-the-retina-symposium/registration-3ee6fb09ca2f489aacd0aa24e9bb11a1.aspx) 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: $150.00  
 Free 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](http://web.mit.edu/bcs/sinha/home.html)**  
*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 Biology**University 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 Dermatology**Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine* **Bruce R. Ksander, PhD**  
 A*ssociate 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,   
 The University of Iowa*  ***Sponsored by:*** *Beryl David & Harry N. Gorin Foundation • NeoStem • ReNeuron • Janssen • Genentech*

 

 



 

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