NYSTEM 2012

May 23 & 24, 2012
The CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York City

NYSTEM’s 4th Annual Meeting is a one and one-half day event that features some of New York’s leading stem cell researchers, includes a keynote address from Mahendra Rao of the NIH Center for Regenerative Medicine, plus plenary and poster sessions.  In addition to invited plenary speakers, other speakers will be selected from the submitted abstracts.

Keynote Speaker:

Mahendra Rao, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, NIH Center for Regenerative Medicine
Chief, Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine,
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
National Institutes of Health

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:

Lorenz Studer, M.D.
Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology, Sloan-Kettering Institute
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

John Schimenti, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Vertebrate Genomics
Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine

Fiona Doetsch, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Pathology & Cell Biology, Neuroscience, Neurology
Columbia University Medical Center

TENTATIVE AGENDA

Registration opens January; early registration closes Thursday, April 12.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Abstracts due: March 9, 2012
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND INSTRUCTIONS

VENUE/TRAVEL INFORMATION

The NYSTEM 2012 Program Committee:
Ira Cohen, M.D., Ph.D.
Steven Goldman, M.D., Ph.D.
Ruth Lehmann, Ph.D.
Ihor Lemischka, Ph.D.
Alexander Nikitin, M.D., Ph.D.
Lorenz Studer, M.D.
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Ph.D.

Contact: NYSTEM, NYS Dept. of Health
stemmtg@wadsworth.org
518 473-1394