2025 speakers to be announced soon.
2025 Keynotes, Speakers & Chairs

Maike Sander, MD
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

Derrick Rossi, PhD
Biotech Entrepreneur
Moderna Co-Founder

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD
Columbia University

Igor I. Slukvin, MD, PhD
University of Wisconsin

Karen Heidelberger
Deerfield Management

Lee Rubin, PhD
Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Li Gan, PhD
Weill Cornell Medicine

Marina Bershteyn, PhD
Neurona Therapeutics

Megan Sykes, MD
Columbia University

Patrick Cahan, PhD
Johns Hopkins University

Sonja Schrepfer, MD, PhD
Sana Biotechnology

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

Valentina Fossati, PhD
The NYSCF Research Institute

Vega Shah, PhD
NVIDIA

Filipe Pereira, PhD
Lund University

Giorgia Quadrato, PhD
University of Southern California

Qimin Quan, PhD
NanoMosaic

Daniel Ramos, PhD
The National Institute on Aging

Sally Temple, PhD
Neural Stem Cell Institute

Paul J. Tesar, PhD
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Krystal Tsosie, PhD, MPH, MA
Arizona State University

Deepak Vashishth, PhD
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Teresa Wright-Johnson
Patient Advocate, Inspirational Speaker, Author and Consultant

Tracy Young-Pearse, PhD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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
