The 2009 Workshop Schedule The Spring 2009 Workshop
8:30 AM – 6:30 PM
8:30 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM Ann A. Kiessling, PhD – Welcome & Introduction
9:15 AM Hans Keirstead, PhD – hESC Derivatives for the Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury and Disease
10:00 AM Steve L. Stice, PhD – Neural, Vascular and Osteogenic Regeneration Using Combined Approaches
10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:50 AM Jose Cibelli, PhD – Neuronal Differentiation of IPS Cells
11:10 AM Keith Tansey, MD, PhD – Neural Plasticity and Repair in Spinal Cord Injury: Are We Doing What We Think We are?
12:00 PM Lunch
1:10 PM Douglas Kerr, MD, PhD – Emerging Restorative Therapies in Neurologic Disorders
2:00 PM Philip Horner, PhD – Stem Cell Transplantation into the Injured Spinal Cord: Molecular Barriers to Cell Genesis and Integration at the Lesion Core.
2:50 PM Coffee Break
3:10 PM Wise Young, MD, PhD – Spinal Cord Injury: The Next Generation of Therapies
4:00 All Faculty Panel Discussion
5:30 PM Conclusion
6:30 PM Dinner & Cocktails