| Tuesday 20 September 2016 | |
| 08:30 | Registration and Refreshments |
| Welcome and Opening Address | |
| 09:00 | Professor Melanie Welham Chief Executive BBSRC  |
| Session 1: Pluripotent and reprogrammed cells for regenerative medicine Chair: Professor Fiona Watt, King’s College London |
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| 09:10 | Professor Martin Pera Stem Cells Australia Keynote Lecture: Human pluripotent stem cells: basic biology matters  |
| 09:40 | Professor Kevin Docherty University of Aberdeen Topic Specific Talk: Generation of Functional Islets from Human Exocrine Pancreas  |
| 10:00 | Professor David Williams Centre for Biological Engineering, University of Loughborough Topic Specific Talk: Translational research in regenerative medicine manufacturing: A personal reflection on progress and outstanding challenges |
| 10:20 | Dr Ivana Barbaric Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield Short Presentation: Genetic stability of human pluripotent stem cells  |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Session 2: Regenerative medicine approaches for endogenous repair, transplantation and regenerative biology Chair: Professor Kevin Park, University of Liverpool |
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| 11:00 | Professor Stuart Forbes MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh Keynote Lecture: Regenerating severely damaged liver  |
| 11:30 | Dr Sajjad Ahmad Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool Topic Specific Talk: Cell therapy approaches to reconstruct the front surface of the human eye  |
| 11:50 | Professor Martin Birchall University College London, Ear Institute Topic Specific Talk: Translating complex Regenerative Medicine surgical therapies: more steeplechase than Valley of Death  |
| 12:10 | Dr Giorgia Fanelli MRC Centre for Transplantation, King’s College London Short Presentation: Collectin 11 expression by hypoxia-stressed iPSC-derived RPE cells is linked to complement activation  |
| 12:20 | Dr Wei-Yu Lu MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Edinburgh Short Presentation: The niche of Hepatic Progenitor Cells mediated liver regeneration  |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Session 3: In vivo assessment of regenerative medicine approaches Chair: Professor Francesco Dazzi, King’s College London |
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| 13:30 | Professor Molly Stevens Department of Materials, Imperial College London Keynote Lecture: Raman and other tools to analyse the cell-material interface  |
| 14:00 | Professor Matthew Rosseinsky Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool Topic Specific Talk: Nanoprobe development and application in the evaluation of cell therapy safety and efficacy  |
| 14:20 | Professor Mark Lythgoe University College London, Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging Topic Specific Talk: Limits of perception: advances in cellular imaging  |
| 14:40 | Ms Lauren Scarfe Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, University of Liverpool Short Presentation: Multi-Modal Imaging for Assessing Safety, Efficacy, and Mechanisms of Action of RMTs  |
| 14:50 | Dr Philip Starkey Lewis MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Edinburgh Short Presentation: Alternatively-activated macrophage therapy for drug-induced liver injury  |
| 15:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| Session 4: Posters | |
| 15:30 | Poster Session
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| 18:00 | Drinks Reception Sponsored by the BioIndustry Association  |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
The full programme for both days can be downloaded through the link here
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