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Megan McDevitt, CMP
Director of Communications and Marketing
Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
Summary Sentence: Registration open now!
Full Summary: Annual meeting which attracts leading scientists, engineers, clinicians and industry participants to discuss the latest cutting edge research in the regenerative medicine field.
Annual Hilton Head Workshop
The 2013 workshop will once again be held at the beautiful Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Island. The goals of the workshop are to bring together academic & corporate scientists and their students working at the cutting edge of regenerative medicine technologies and provide an intimate forum for sharing the latest insights and discoveries in this rapidly progressing field. Active researchers, graduate, postdoctoral student researchers, and those interested in keeping pace with the latest developments in regenerative medicine are encouraged to participate.
Nerem Lecturer
Robert Lanza, MD - Chief Scientific Officer, Advanced Cell Technology
Keynote Speakers
Elliot Chaikof, MD, PhD - Chairman of the Roberta and Stephen R. Weiner Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Johnson and Johnson Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Antonios G. Mikos, PhD - Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Director of John W. Cox Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Director of Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering, Rice University
David J. Mooney, PhD - Robert P. Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Kenji Sunagawa, MD, PhD - Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University
James G. Tidball, PhD - Director, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Center, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Integrative Biology and Physiology, Chair of Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology IDP, University of California Los Angeles
Thomas N. Wight, PhD - Member and Director, Hope Heart Matrix Biology Program, Benaroya Research Institute, Virginia Mason Medical Center
Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Workshop information/registration
