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

Li Gan, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine

Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Karen Heidelberger
Deerfield Management

Karl R. Koehler, PhD
Harvard Medical School

Christina Leslie, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering
Cancer Center

John Mendlein, PhD

Sarah Millar, PhD

Grant W. Mitchell, MD, MBA
Every Cure

Daniel Paull, PhD
The NYSCF Research Institute

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
