2025 Keynotes, Speakers & Chairs
Paola Arlotta, PhD
Harvard University
Maike Sander, MD
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Marina Bershteyn, PhD
Neurona Therapeutics
Patrick Cahan, PhD
Johns Hopkins University
Gregory Carter, PhD
The Jackson Laboratory
Andrew Dunn
Endpoints News
Valentina Fossati, PhD
The NYSCF Research Institute
Anastasia Gamick
Convergent Research
Li Gan, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine
Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Karen Heidelberger
Deerfield Management
Matthew Herper
STAT News
Karl R. Koehler, PhD
Harvard Medical School
Christina Leslie, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center
John Mendlein, PhD
Sarah Millar, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine
at Mount Sinai
Grant W. Mitchell, MD, MBA
Every Cure
Daniel Paull, PhD
The NYSCF Research Institute
Carlo Rizzuto, PhD
Versant Ventures
Lee Rubin, PhD
Harvard University
Justin Scheer, PhD
Johnson & Johnson
Innovative Medicine
Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD
Sana Biotechnology
Vega Shah, PhD
NVIDIA
Igor I. Slukvin, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin
Megan Sykes, MD
Sjoukje van der Stegen, PhD
Saul Villeda, PhD
University of California,
San Francisco
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD
Columbia University
Topics
Covering a wide range of topics, The NYSCF Conference fosters progress in stem cell research by providing a forum for scientific discussion and collaboration.
iPSC disease models
Cancer
Aging
Organoids
Autoimmunity
Neurodegeneration
Precision medicine
Computational modeling
AI in life sciences
