Conference Agenda
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| START OF CONFERENCE | ||
| 8:00-8:10a | Welcome & Overview | Brian M. Culley, CEO, Lineage Cell Therapeutics |
| Presenter’s Address – The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation | ||
| 8:10-8:30a | Marco Baptista, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer | |
| Spinal Cord Injury – An Overview of the SCI Clinical Trial Landscape (Designs, Endpoints, Learnings, Ongoing Challenges) | ||
| 8:30-9:00a | Richard G. Fessler, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, RUSH Medical College | |
| 9:00-9:15a | BREAK | |
| Panel 1: Persons with Lived Experience – What Matters |
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| 9:15-10:10a | Moderator | Jack Allen, CFA, Senior Research Analyst, Biotechnology, Baird Equity Research |
| Panelists | Jake Javier, M.S.
Jerod Nieder, Positively Paralyzed, LLC |
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| Presentation – California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) | ||
| 10:15-10:45a | Lila Collins, Ph.D., Senior Science Officer | |
| Panel 2: The Future of Spinal Cord Injury Clinical Trials (Endpoints, Epidemiology and Global Considerations) | ||
| 10:50a-12:00p | Moderator | Joseph Pantginis, Ph.D., Managing Director, Research, H.C. Wainwright & Co. Inc. |
| Panelists | Endpoints – Mary Jane Mulcahey, Ph.D., OTR/L, CPPC, CLCP, FASIA, Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, Thomas Jefferson University
Epidemiology – Michael Fehlings, M.D., Ph.D., FRCSC, FACS, Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto |
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| 12:00 – 12:55p | LUNCH | |
| Corporate Presentations | ||
| 1:00-1:20p | AbbVie |
Kimberly Pfleeger, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Director, Neuroscience Development |
| 1:25-1:45p | Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. |
Brian Culley, Chief Executive Officer |
| 1:50-2:10p | Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Development America, Inc. | Konstantin Zubovskiy, M.D., M.B.A., Senior Director, Clinical Development, Global Early Development Team Lead |
| 2:15-2:25p | BREAK | |
| 2:30-2:50p | NervGen Pharma Corp. | Daniel Mikol, M.D. Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer |
| 2:55-3:15p | ONWARD | Aditi Roy, Vice President, Communications and James Guest M.D., Ph.D., FACS, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Univ. of Miami |
| 3:20-3:40p | EG 427 | Cornelia Haag-Molkenteller, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Medical Officer |
| Presentation – Spinal Cord Outcomes Partnership Endeavor (SCOPE) | ||
| 3:45-4:00p | Linda Jones, PT, PhD – Collaborating Investigator at SCOPE & Chair of the Research Committee of the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Jane Hsieh, M.Sc – Wings for Life, Accelerated Translational Program, Executive Director & SCOPE Co-Chair |
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| Concluding Remarks | ||
| 4:00-6:00p | Networking Reception on Sanford Consortium Terrace | |
