May 29 (Thursday)
10:00 - 12:00 Inaugural Opening Ceremony
12:00 - 13:30 Celebratory Lunch
13:30 - 16:00 Session 1. CHA-WAKE FOREST Joint Conference/Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Chairs: Kwang-Soo Kim (USA), Dong-Wook Kim (Korea)
Opening Remarks & Lecture
13:30 - 13:45 Kwang-Yul Cha (CHA Health Systems, Korea)
Insights and Lessons of Stem Cell-Based Therapies from Ongoing Human Clinical Trials:
Clinical Excellence & Proof of Concept Hospitals
13:45 - 14:15 Kwang-Soo Kim (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Protein-Based Cellular Alchemy for Personalized Cell Therapy: A Case for Parkinson’s Disease
14:15 - 14:45 King C Li (Wake Forest University, USA)
Image Guided Remote Controlled Stem Cells for Brain Tumor Therapy
14:45 - 15:15 Boris C Pasche (Wake Forest University, USA)
Targeted Treatment of Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Low and Safe Levels of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields
Amplitude-Modulated at Tumor-Specific Frequencies
15:15 - 15:45 Sarah L Berga (Wake Forest University, USA)
Opportunities in Women's Health, Sex Differences, Reproduction and Gender Medicine
15:45 - 16:00 Demin Han (Capital Medical University, China)
Stem Cell Practice in China - Process of Developing and Health Care System
16:00 - 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 - 18:40 Session 2. Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Chairs: Yong-Mahn Han (Korea), Youngsook Son (Korea)
16:10 - 16:40 Kotaro Yoshimura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Adipose Tissue and Stem Cells: Therapeutics Tool for Tissue Volumization, Harmonization, and Fertilization
16:40 - 17:10 Dong-Ryul Lee (CHA University, Korea)
Derivation and Future Application of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Human Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer
17:10 - 17:40 Erin Wolff (NIH, USA)
Oogonial Stem Cellsgenerate Mature Oocytes in An Autologous Rhesus Macaque Transplantation Model
17:40 - 18:10 Akihiro Shimosaka (Chairperson, Asian Cellular Therapy Organization, Japan)
Cellular Therapy in Asia
18:10 - 18:40 Zami Aberman (Chairman & CEO Pluristem Therapeutics, Israel)
Cell Therapy - From the Bench to Multi-National Clinical Studies
18:40 Closing