Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund: Events

7:30am -8:30am	Breakfast / Registration
Opening Remarks
8:30am - 9:15am	Dan Gincel Director, Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund Marcia Welsh Interim President, Towson University Margaret Conn Himelfarb Chairwoman, Maryland Stem Cell Research Commission John L. Bohanan, Jr. Delegate, St. Mary's County, State of Maryland
Plenary session I - Ethics in Stem Cell Research
9:15am - 10:15am	Moderator: Jeremy Sugarman Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics Kevin T. FitzGerald Georgetown University Medical Center Audrey Chapman University of Connecticut School of Medicine Jeffrey Kahn Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics Debra Mathews Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
10:15am - 11:00am	Break, Poster Viewing & Networking
Plenary session II - Translating Stem Cell Research to the Clinic
11:00am - 12:20pm	Chair: Elias Zambidis Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Aaron Rapoport Professor of Medicine and Associate Director, BMT Program, University of Maryland School of Medicine CELLULAR IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR BLOOD CANCERS: HONEST-T IS THE BEST POLICY Jessica Carmen Lonza Walkersville THE SCIENCE BEHIND CELL THERAPY MANUFACTURING Richard J. Jones Director, Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION USING MISMATCHED DONORS Anne Comi Hugo Moser Kennedy Krieger Research Institute SYSTEMIC INJECTION OF CD34+ ENRICHED HUMAN CORD BLOOD CELLS MODULATES POST-STROKE NEURAL AND GLIAL PROGENITOR RESPONSE IN A SEX-DEPENDENT MANNER IN CD1 MICE Tea Soon Park Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions NON-INTEGRATED CORD BLOOD-DERIVED IPSC GENERATE ANGIOBLASTS WITH AUGMENTED ENGRAFTMENT POTENTIAL IN A RETINAL ISCHEMIA MODEL
12:20pm - 1:45pm	Lunch and Poster Viewing
Plenary session III - The John L. Kellermann III Memorial Lecture
1:45pm - 2:30pm	Kevin Kamenetz County Executive, Baltimore County Curt I. Civin Associate Dean for Research, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics and Physiology CD34 STORIES AND Micro RNA MAESTROS OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM-PROGENITOR CELLS
2:30pm - 2:50pm	Break
Plenary session IV - Induced Pluripotent stem cells: disease modeling and treatment
2:50pm - 4:10pm	Chair: Linzhao Cheng Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Xianmin Zeng, Ph.D. Buck Institute for Research on Aging DEVELOPING A CELL REPLACEMENT THERAPY FOR PARKINSON'S DISEASE USING HESC/IPSC Ricardo A. Feldman, PhD. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine GENERATION OF PATIENT-SPECIFIC INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS FOR MODELING AND TREATING TYPES 1, 2 AND 3 GAUCHER DISEASE Feyruz Rassool University of Maryland School of Medicine EFFICACY OF REMODELING THE DNA DAMAGE RESPONSE IN INDUCED PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS ENGINEERED BY DIFFERENT METHODS Jizhong Zou Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions GENETIC AND FUNCTIONAL CORRECTION OF DISEASE MUTATIONS IN PATIENT-SPECIFIC IPSCS BY ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE MEDIATED GENE TARG ETING
4:10pm - 6:00pm	Reception Poster Viewing & Networking