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Isscr-2020-Program.Pdf Dear Colleagues, Welcome to ISSCR’s first virtual meeting! Thank you for joining us for this vibrant digital experience. While the format has changed from what we originally envisioned, what has not altered is your Society’s commitment to the global stem cell community. We continue to focus on bringing exceptional educational programming and networking opportunities to the stem cell field across the world. We believe we have achieved this with ISSCR 2020 Virtual! While much has changed this year, our commitment to constantly innovate has not. This year we created a Stem Cell Research & COVID-19 session that is particularly timely and embraces how rapidly research is moving in our field to understand and combat this virus. This session is part of an ongoing, multi-faceted strategy of the society to share resources for addressing COVID-19. You also will notice the incorporation of four themes woven throughout the meeting as they relate to individual cell types, tissues, and disease: Tissue Stem Cells and Regeneration, Cellular Identity, Modeling Development and Disease, and Clinical Applications, and you will see them noted next to sessions on the meeting platform and in this program. Popular professional development and career-building programs are incorporated into ISSCR 2020 Virtual including the Women in Science panel discussion. This session will gather leaders in STEM to share insights and provide guidance on solving challenges many women face throughout their training and careers and all voices are invited to contribute to this conversation. A new Business of Discovery workshop is an excellent addition to the program, reflecting the growth and maturation of our field as well as the possibilities of new treatments on the horizon. Unique to 2020, abstract submitters will be able to present their posters through a five-minute audio presentation integrated in our abstract platform. We encourage you to take full advantage of exploring those posters and interacting with your colleagues around their research. We know that ISSCR 2020 Virtual never would have been possible to achieve without the commitment, support, and flexibility of our world-renowned speakers, our co-sponsor, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), the dedicated ISSCR staff, and the many exhibitors, sponsors, and advertisers that patiently worked with the ISSCR to support the meeting in this digital format. We appreciate the confidence you have in the society. We hope you will seek out the myriad opportunities this year to share research, discover new scientific approaches, expand your network of colleagues, and initiate your next collaboration. For a full 30 days, you will have the opportunity to enrich your understanding of the field through our digital event platform. Each year, this annual meeting inspires us with new ideas and reveals the significant advances taking place across the breadth of stem cell science. This year, during this extraordinary time fighting a new pandemic, will be no different. Sincerely, Deepak Srivastava Kevin Eggan ISSCR President Program Chair 1 MEETING SPONSORS Welcome to the 2020 Annual Meeting of the WelcomeInternational to the Society 2020 for Annual Stem CellMeeting Research. of the We are at a pivotalInternational moment in biomedicine, Society when stemfor cellStem technologies Cell Research.are moving rapidly from bench to clinic, changing the very paradigm of drug discovery and therapeutic development. 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