iForum™ 2021 Virtual User Group

The Premier Virtual Differentiated iPSC Meeting - From Ideation to Implementation
Join us for the first virtual iForum™ meeting where innovators from academia, government, biotech, and pharma will detail breakthrough applications enabled by differentiated human iPSCs. Register now for this free, two-day, online event.
Dates
Wednesday, January 27th - Thursday, January 28th
Speakers
The full list of speakers, talk titles and abstracts will be announced soon. The current list of confirmed speakers includes:
- Caroline Archer, PhD - AstraZeneca
- Silvia Cainarca, PhD - AXXAM, S.p.A.
- Yasunari Kanda, PhD - National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan
- Tomohiro Kawamoto, PhD - Axcelead Drug Discovery Partners
- Camille Nicoleau, PhD - IPSEN
- Francesca Pistollato, PhD - European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Frederick Sannajust, PhD - Independent Safety Pharmacology/Toxicology Consultant, Former Executive Director of Safety and Exploratory Safety Pharmacology at MERCK Research Laboratories, West-Point, PA, USA.
- Ilyas Singeç, MD, PhD - Director, Stem Cell Translation Laboratory, NIH Regenerative Medicine Program, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
- Takahiro Tanaka, PhD, RPh - Axcelead Drug Discovery Partners
- Marija Usenovic, PhD - Merck & Co
- Alison Walker, PhD - AstraZeneca
- More to be announced soon!
Research-focused Agenda
iForum 2021 Meeting agenda is packed with thought-provoking and visionary scientific presentations. This 2 half-day event will highlight the use of human iPSC-derived cells for disease modeling, drug discovery and predictive toxicology in the cardiac and neural fields.
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iPSC-Derived Cardiomyocytes |
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9:10 am - 11:10 am | Cardiac Predictive Toxicology |
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11:15 am - 12:10 pm | Cardiac Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery |
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12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Closing Statements |
Day 2 |
iPSC-Derived Neural Cells |
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9:00 am- 9:10 am | Welcome | |||
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9:10 am - 12:30 am | Neural Discovery, Disease Modeling and Toxicology |
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12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Closing Statements |
Partners
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Event Details:
Event Date: 2021-01-27 To 2021-01-28
Organizer: FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics