Time Table
*Please note that the program is subject to change.
Program
Keynote Speech 1
September 3 (Wed), 10:00-10:45 [Room 1]
| Chair | Yoshikatsu Eto (Southern Tohoku Institute for Neuroscience/Tokyo Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan) |
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| Speaker | John Walker (MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge, UK) |
Keynote Speech 2
September 4 (Thu), 9:15-10:00 [Room 1]
| Chair | Kimitoshi Nakamura (Kumamoto University, Japan) |
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| Speaker | Vamsi Krishna Mootha (Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA) |
Keynote Speech 3
September 5 (Fri), 9:15-10:00 [Room 1]
| Chair | Fumio Endo (Kumamoto Ezuko Medical Center, Japan) |
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| Speaker | Noboru Mizushima (The University of Tokyo, Japan) |
Plenary Session 1
September 4 (Thu), 10:00-10:30 [Room 1]
| Chair | TBD |
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| Speaker | TBD |
Plenary Session 2
September 4 (Thu), 10:30-11:00 [Room 1]
| Chair | TBD |
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| Speaker | Wyatt Yue (Newcastle University, UK) |
Plenary Session 3
September 4 (Thu), 11:00-11:30 [Room 1]
| Chair | Nicholas Ah Mew (Children's National Hospital, USA) |
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| Speaker | Johannes Häberle (Division of Metabolism and Children’s Research Center, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland) |
Plenary Session 4
September 4 (Thu), 11:30-12:00 [Room 1]
| Chair | TBD |
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| Speaker | Emil D. Kakkis (Ultragenyx, USA) |
Plenary Session 5
September 6 (Sat), 9:00-9:30 [Room 1]
| Chair | Kei Murayama (Department of Pediatrics and Diagnostics and Therapeutics of Intractable Disease, Intractable Disease Research Center, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Japan) |
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| Speaker | David J. Pagliarini (HHMI/Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA) |
Plenary Session 6
September 6 (Sat), 9:30-10:00 [Room 1]
| Chair | Takashi Hamazaki (Metropolitan University School of Medicine, Japan) |
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| Speaker | Dwight Koeberl (Duke University School of Medicine, USA ) |
Plenary Session 7
September 6 (Sat), 10:00-10:30 [Room 1]
| Chair | Eva Morava (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA) |
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| Speaker | Thomas Braulke (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf; Institute of Osteology & Biomechanics; Cell Biology of Rare Diseases, Germany) |
Symposium 1 : Cutting-Edge Basic Research
September 3 (Wed), 11:00-12:30 [Room 1]
| Chair | TBD |
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| Yair Anikster (Safra Children's Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, Israel) | |
| Speaker | Hudson H. Freeze (Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, USA) |
| Hirohide Saito (RNP Synthetic Biology and Biotechnology Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, and Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Japan) | |
| Knut Woltjen (Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Japan) | |
| Yousuke Katsuda (Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, StapleBio Inc., Japan) |
Symposium 2 : Gene therapy from Japan, the Land of Tradition
September 3 (Wed), 11:00-12:30 [Room 2]
| Chair | Kimihiko Oishi (Department of Pediatrics, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan) |
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| Gerard Berry (Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA) | |
| Speaker | Masafumi Onodera (Graduate School of Engineering Osaka University, Japan) |
| Kazuhiro Muramatsu (Jichi Medical University, Department of Pediatrics and Center for Gene Therapy Research, Japan) | |
| Hiroshi Kobayashi (Division of Gene Therapy, Research Center for Medical Sciences, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan) | |
| Akihiro Kume (Jichi Medical University, Japan) |
Symposium 3 : Global Trends in Gene Therapy
September 3 (Wed), 14:00-15:30 [Room 1]
| Chair | Mireia Del Toro (Pediatric Neurology, Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain) |
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| Gerry Lipshutz (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) | |
| Speaker | Stacy E Croteau (Boston Children's Hospital, USA) |
| Haiyan Zhou (University College London, UK) | |
| J Lawrence Merritt, II (Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, USA) | |
| Kent Lai (University of Utah, USA) |
Symposium 4 : Transformation in Newborn Screening
September 3 (Wed), 14:00-15:45 [Room 2]
| Chair | Susan Berry (University of Minnesota, USA) |
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| Sarah Viall (Oregon Health & Science University, USA) | |
| Speaker | Patrick Forny (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA) |
| Osamu Ohara (Kazusa DNA Research Institute, Japan) | |
| Rohit Sharma (Massachusetts General Hospital, USA) | |
| Dau-Ming Niu (Institute of Clinical medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University / Rare Disease Medical Research Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan) | |
| Yin-Hsiu Chien (National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan) |
Symposium 5 : Cutting-Edge Advances in Lysosomal Disorders
September 4 (Thu), 15:15-17:30 [Room 1]
| Chair | Marc Patterson (Mayo Clinic Rochester MN; IntraBio Inc, USA) |
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| Nicola Brunetti-Pierri (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Italy) | |
| Speaker | Pramod K. Mistry (Yale University School of Medicine, USA) |
| Priya S. Kishnani (Duke University Medical Center, USA) | |
| Roberto Giugliani (UFRGS, HCPA, DASA, CASA DOS RAROS, Brazil) | |
| Aurora Pujol (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Insitute (IDIBELL), Spain) | |
| Maurizio Scarpa (Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale, Italy) | |
| Isaac Canals (University of Zurich - Kinderspital Zürich, Switzerland) |
Symposium 6 : Frontiers in Amino Acid Metabolism Disorders
September 4 (Thu), 15:15-17:30 [Room 2]
| Chair | Tetsuya Ito (Department of Pediatrics, Fujita Health University School of Medicine, Japan) |
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| Philippa Mills (University College London, Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UK) | |
| Speaker | Nicola Longo (University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA) |
| Johan L.K. Van Hove (University of Colorado, USA) | |
| Verónica Cornejo (Laboratory of Genetics and Metabolic Diseases, INTA, University of Chile, Chile) | |
| Yukihito Ishizaka (Japan Institute for Health Security, Japan) | |
| Ayelet Erez (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) | |
| Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas (The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
Symposium 7 : Advances in iPS Cell Research
September 5 (Fri), 10:15-11:45 [Room 1]
| Chair | Hiroshi Kobayashi (Division of Gene Therapy, Research Center for Medical Sciences, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan) |
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| Andrea Dardis (University Hospital of Udine, Italy) | |
| Speaker | Hideyuki Okano (Keio University Regenerative Medicine Research Center (KRM), Japan) |
| Haruhisa Inoue (Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University, Japan) | |
| Takumi Era (Department of Cell Modulation, Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University, Japan) | |
| Norifumi Shioda (Kumamoto University, Japan) |
Symposium 8 : Frontiers in Organic Acidemias and Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders
September 5 (Fri), 10:15-11:45 [Room 2]
| Chair | Chong Kun Cheon (Pusan National University School of Medicine, Republic of Korea) |
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| Shirou Matsumoto (Kumamoto University Hospital, Japan) | |
| Speaker | Jerry Vockley (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA) |
| Stefan Kölker (Heidelberg University Hospital and Heidelberg University, Medical Faculty, Centre for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Germany) | |
| Sufin Yap (Sheffield Children’s Hospital, UK) | |
| Sean Froese (University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland) |
Symposium 9 : Late-Breaking Research
September 6 (Sat), 10:30-12:00 [Room 1]
Symposium 10 : Asian Young Investigator Award
September 6 (Sat), 10:30-12:00 [Room 2]
| Chair | TBD |
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| Speaker | Yu-Ting Chiang (Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan) |
| Mai Thi Thanh Do (Vietnam National Children's Hospital, Vietnam) | |
| Mildrid Yeo (Genetics Service, Department of Paediatrics, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore) | |
| Ji-Hee Yoon (Department of pediatrics, Bundang Jesaeng Hospital, South Korea) | |
| Parith Wongkittichote (Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Thailand) | |
| Swasti PAL (Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, India) |