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8:00 am |
| 8:45 am Opening Remarks Ilse Treurnicht Chief Executive Officer, MaRS Discovery District, Canada |
| 9:00 am Annemarie Moseley Acting Chief Executive Officer, Aggregate Therapeutics Inc., Canada "The Commercialization of Stem Cell Research: Historic and Current Challenges" |
| 9:30 am Thomas B. Okarma President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director, Geron Corporation, USA "Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Promise and Progress" |
| 10:00 am Laura Grey Vice President, Research Strategy and Business Development, Insception Biosciences Inc., Canada "Harnessing the Potential of Stem Cells from Cord Blood" |
| 10:20 am Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am Cheryl V. Reicin Partner, Torys LLP (Practice Leader of the Technology and Life Sciences Group), Canada "The Venture Capital Perspective: Canada and the USA" |
| 11:30 am |
| Ross Tubo Senior Director, Stem Cell Biology, Genzyme Corporation, USA "Cellular Therapies: Genzyme's History and Perspective" |
| 11:50 am Jan Alfheim President, StemPath Inc., Canada "Developing Regenerative Medicines for Cardiac and Skeletal Myopathies" |
| 12:20 pm Lunch |
| 1:45 pm Stephen L. Minger Director, Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, Wolfson Centre for Age Related Diseases, King's College, England "Therapeutic Applications of Human Stem Cells" |
| 2:15 pm Janet Rossant Research Institute, Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, Canada "Stem Cells from the Blastocyst: Mouse-Human Comparisons" |
| 2:45 pm Mick Bhatia Director and Scientist, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, The Krembil Centre for Stem Cell Biology, Robarts Research Institute, Canada "Unique Challenges of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines" |
| 3:15 pm Coffee Break |
| 3:45 pm Michael A. Rudnicki Senior Scientist and Director, Molecular Medicine Program, Ottawa Health Research Institute, Canada "Molecular Regulation of Myogenic Stem Cell Function during Regenerative Myogenesis" |
| 4:15 pm Closing Remarks Christian Burks President and Chief Executive Officer, Ontario Genomics Institute, Canada |
| 5:00 pm Reception |
