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Tuesday, 22 November 2011


09:00 Registration and Coffee




10:00 - 10:30 Opening Session Senate Hall


Chairperson: Adee Matan, Israel

WELCOME

Rivka Carmi, President, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Matthew Gould, British Ambassador to Israel


10:30 - 13:00 Plenary Session Senate Hall

HIGHLIGHTS OF REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

Chairpersons: Lord Naren Patel, UK
Benjamin Geiger, Israel

10:30 HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS – FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE
Benjamin E. Reubinoff, Hadassah University Medical Center,
Jerusalem, Israel


11:00 V BIO-INSPIRED MATERIALS FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

Smadar Cohen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,

Israel


11:30 Coffee Break


12:00 TISSUE ENGINEERING: AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY

Dame Julia Polak, Imperial College London, UK

Tuesday, 22 November 2011 (cont.)


12:30 EPICARDIUM-DERIVED CARDIAC REPAIR

Paul R. Riley, University College London, UK

13:00 Lunch

14:00 - 18:00 Session 2A Barkan Hall


TRANSLATIONAL CELL THERAPY IMMUNOLOGY & MANUFACTURE

Chairpersons: Tamir Ben-Hur, Israel
Julie Daniels, UK


14:00 STEM CELL THERAPIES FOR SKELETAL DISORDERS

Dan Gazit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel


14:30 HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS: IMPLICATIONS FOR BASIC

AND TRANSLATIONAL CARDIAC RESEARCH

Lior Gepstein, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel


15:00 STEM CELL THERAPY IN ALS

Daniel Offen, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel


15:30 STEM CELL THERAPY FOR BLINDING CORNEAL DISEASE

Julie Daniels, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK



16:00 Coffee Break



16:30 THE CHONDROCYTE: A FLEXIBLE TOOL FOR RECONSTRUCTION

James B. Richardson, RJAH, NHS Trust, UK


17:00 TISSUE ENGINEERING CHALLENGES IN ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY

Andrew McCaskie, Newcastle University, UK


17:30 Poster presentations



18:00 Buses return to hotel




19:00 Depart for Bedouin Style Dinner - one bus from the university and two buses from the hotel







Tuesday, 22 November 2011 (cont.)

14:00 - 18:00 Session 2B Oren Hall


STEM CELL / TRANSPLANTATION IMMUNOLOGY & MANUFACTURE


Chairpersons: Paul Fairchild, UK
Yair Reisner, Israel


14:00 MECHANISMS OF PANCREATIC BETA CELL REGENERATION

Yuval Dor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel


14:30 ALPHA-1 ANTITRYPSIN PROTECTS CELL TRANSPLANTS,

FACILITATES ANGIOGENESIS AND ENHANCES GRAFT-SPECIFIC

IMMUNE TOLERANCE IN VIVO

Eli Lewis, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel


15:00 PIG EMBRYONIC PANCREATIC TISSUE FOR CORRECTION OF

DIABETES

Yair Reisner, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel


15:30 DENDRITIC CELLS AND PLURIPOTENCY: UNEXPECTED

ALLIES IN THE PURSUIT OF IMMUNOTHERAPY

Paul Fairchild, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK



16:00 Coffee Break



16:30 MANUFACTURE AND SUPPLY OF A CELLULARISED BIOCOMPATIBLE POLYMER SCAFFOLD AS AN ADVANCED THERAPY MEDICINAL PRODUCT FOR TRACHAEAL REPLACEMENT

Mark Lowdell, University College London, UK


17:00 CELL THERAPY TO PROMOTE TRANSPLANTATION TOLERANCE: A WINNING STRATEGY?

Giovana Lombardi, King’s College London, London, UK


17:30 Poster presentations



18:00 Buses return to hotel




19:00 Depart for Bedouin Style Dinner - one bus from the university and two buses from the hotel


Wednesday, 23 November 2011

08:15 - 09:00 Optional Session A Barkan Hall


QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Questions and answers related to the BIRAX Regenerative Medicine

Initiative Call for Proposals, British Council, Israel

08:15 - 09:00 Optional Session B Oren Hall


PARTY PITCH YOUR POST-DOC

Science Communication / Networking for early career researchers

Facilitated by Aarathi Prasad, freelance science journalist, author and broadcaster, Natural Resources / Science Communication Advisor, British Council, UK

09:00 - 12:30 Session 3A Barkan Hall


STEM CELL DERIVATION, GENOMICS, GENOMICS REPROGRAMMING & EPIGENETICS


Chairpersons: Nissim Benvenisty, Israel
Paul De Sousa, UK


09:00 THE ROLE OF PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS IN MODELING HUMAN DISORDERS

Nissim Benvenisty, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel


09:30 UNDERSTANDING THE IDENTITY AND STABILITY OF

PLURIPOTENT CELL STATES

Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel


10:00 THE ROLE MIRNAA PLAY AS DEVELOPMENTAL SWITCHES

Eran Hornstein, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel


10:30 DEVELOPING SCALABLE AUTOMATION OF HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL (HPSC) EXPANSION AND DIFFERENTIATION FOR MULTIPLE SCREENING APPLICATIONS

Lorraine Young, University of Nottingham, UK


11:00 Coffee Break


11:30 PLURIOPTENT STEM CELL TRANSLATION: BASIC AND APPLIED

SCIENCE SUPPORTING HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS IN

REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

Paul De Sousa, University of Edinburgh, UK


12:00 MESODERM DIFFERENTIATION IN PLURIPOTENT MAMMALIAN

STEM CELLS

Roger Pedersen, University of Cambridge, UK


12:30 Lunch

Wednesday, 23 November 2011 (cont.)

09:00 - 12:30 Session 3B Oren Hall


BIOMATERIALS, TISSUE ENGINEERING


Chairpersons: Hanna Rapaport, Israel
Kevin Shakesheff, UK


09:00 NANOTECHNOLOGICAL STRATEGIES FOR MENDING BROKEN HEARTS

Tal Dvir, Tel Aviv University, Israel


09:30 NATURAL EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PLATFORMS TOWARDS ENGINEERING OF THICK CARDIAC CONSTRUCTS

Marcelle Machluf, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel


10:00 SELF ASSEMBLED ACIDIC PEPTIDES; FROM DESIGN TO

BIOMATERIALS FOR BONE TISSUE REGENERATION
Hanna Rapaport, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel


10:30 NEW MATERIALS-BASED STRATEGIES FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

Molly Stevens, Imperial College London, UK


11:00 Coffee Break


11:30 CONTROLLING CELL BEHAVIOUR USING 3D ARCHITECTURES

Kevin Shakesheff, University of Nottingham, UK


12:00 CONTROLLING CELLS FOR USE IN CLINICAL THERAPIES USING MAGNETIC NANOPARTICLES

Alicia El Haj, Keele University, UK


12:30 Lunch





















Wednesday, 23 November 2011 (cont.)


13:30 - 16:30 Session 4A Barkan Hall


STEM CELL BIOLOGY: LESSONS FROM DEVELOPMENT


Chairpersons: Sue Kimber, UK
Dov Zipori, Israel


13:30 A REGULATORY NETWORK OF TISSUE-SPECIFIC MODIFIERS UNDERLIES THE ETIOLOGY OF DIGEORGE DELETION SYNDROME

Eldad Tzahor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel


14:00 TRANSLATING HUMAN KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT TO CELL

THERAPY OF RENAL INJURY AND TARGETED THERAPY OF

RENAL CANCER

Benjamin Dekel, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel


14:30 MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS AS A PARADIGM OF THE STEM STATE: PLASTIC NATURE ENTAILING HETEROGENEITY AND CAPACITY TO DE-DIFFERENTIATE

Dov Zipori, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel


15:00 REGULATION OF NEURAL STEM CELLS BY INTEGRINS AND

EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX

Charles ffrench-Constant, University of Edinburgh, UK


15:30 TWINNING: THE ULTIMATE REGENERATION

Claudio D. Stern, University College London, UK


16:00 GENERATION OF CHONDROGENIC CELLS FROM HUMAN PLURIPOTENT CELLS

Sue Kimber, University of Manchester, UK


16:30 Coffee Break



















Wednesday, 23 November 2011 (cont.)

13:30 - 16:30 Session 4B Oren Hall

GENE THERAPY AND GENE-MODIFIED CELLS


Chairpersons: Andrew Baker, UK
Tamir Ben-Hur, Israel


13:30 DEVELOPMENT OF BETA-CELL REPLACEMENT THERAPY FOR DIABETES

Shimon Efrat, Tel Aviv University, Israel


14:00 USE OF AUTOLOGOUS VENOUS ENDOTHEIAL AND SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS MODIFIED BY GENE TRANSFER FOR INDUCTION OF ARTERIOGENESIS

Moshe Flugelman, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel


14:30 DIRECT REPROGRAMMING OF HUMAN ADULT CELLS INTO

INSULIN PRODUCING CELLS; CELL REPLACEMENT THERAPY FOR DIABETIC PATIENTS

Sarah Ferber, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel


15:00 GENE THERAPY FOR IMMUNODEFICIENCY

Adrian Thrasher, University College London, UK


15:30 Modifying vein grafts by gene therapy

Andrew Baker, University of Glasgow, UK


16:00 CELL THERAPY FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Tamir Ben-Hur, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel


16:30 Coffee Break


17:00 - 19:00 Closing Plenary Discussion Senate Hall


POSTER AWARDS

Prizes will be awarded for the 3 best posters by Simon Kay, Director, British Council Israel and Adee Matan, Science and Innovation Attache, British Embassy


REGENERATIVE MEDICINE: THE ROAD AHEAD


Moderators: Chris Mason, UK
Smadar Cohen, Israel

Panelists: Martin Birchall, UK

Anthony Hollander, UK

Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor, Israel

Michel Revel, Israel

Yosef Shiloh, Israel

Glyn Stacey, UK


CLOSING REMARKS

Simon Kay, Director, British Council Israel


19:30 Return transfer to the hotel


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