8th World Congress and Expo on Cell & Stem Cell Research March 20-22, 2017 Orlando, Florida, USA

Drapeau holds a Bachelor’s degree in Honors Neurophysiology and a Master’s degree in Neurology and Neurosurgery from Canada’s McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, with work performed at the Montreal Neurological Institute. His thesis was on epileptogenesis and the role of eicosanoids in long-term potentiation and he completed further scientific training in variable projection microscopy at Bradford Research Institute and in ion-selective microelectrode recordings at St-Anne Hospital in France. Mr. Drapeau has been the Director of Research and Development at Cell Tech International and then Desert Lake Technologies, before co-founding STEMTech HealthSciences and becoming its Chief Science Officer. He is the author of the Stem Cell Theory of Renewal, detailed in his book Cracking the Stem Cell Code.

His interest focuses on basic and clinical research pertaining to adult stem cells, and more specifically the natural role of stem cells in the body and clinical potential of Endogenous Stem Cell Mobilization (ESCM).

Mahendra Rao joins The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute as the Vice President for Regenerative Medicine. Dr. Rao brings decades of experience in stem cell science and business development to NYSCF's mission to translate stem cell research into cures. Dr. Rao was the Director of the NIH Center for Regenerative Medicine since its founding in 2010. Prior to joining the NIH, Dr. Rao spent six years as the vice president of Regenerative Medicine at Life Technologies, Inc.

He has over twenty years of experience in all aspects of the stem cell field including government, academia, and business.

Davis is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and had his postgraduate medical training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the NIH. His academic positions have included Chair, Department of Medicine, Albany Medical College. He has served as President, American Thyroid Association, as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine and he is Co-Head, Faculty of 1000 – Endocrinology. He serves on multiple Editorial Boards of His scientific interests include molecular mechanisms of actions of nonpeptide hormones, particularly, thyroid hormone. He and his colleagues described the cell surface receptor for thyroid hormone on integrin v3 that underlies the pro-angiogenic activity of the hormone and the proliferative action of the hormone on cancer cells. He has co-authored more than 200 original research articles and 30 textbook chapters and he has edited three medical textbooks.

Paul J. Davis's scientific interests include molecular mechanisms of actions of nonpeptide hormones, particularly, thyroid hormone. He and his colleagues described the cell surface receptor for thyroid hormone on integrin v3 that underlies the pro-angiogenic activity of the hormone and the proliferative action of the hormone on cancer cells

Haval Shirwan is Dr. Michael and Joan Hamilton Endowed Chair in Autoimmune Disease, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Director of Molecular Immunomodulation Program at the Institute for Cellular Therapeutics. He conducted his Graduate studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara, CA, and Postdoctoral studies at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA. He joined the University of Louisville in 1998 after holding academic appointments at various academic institutions in the United States. He is member of several national and international societies and recipient of various awards.

Dr. Haval Shirwan research focuses on the modulation of immune system for the treatment of immune-based diseases with particular focus on type 1 diabetes, transplantation, and development of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines against cancer and infectious diseases. He is an inventor on over a dozen of worldwide patents, widely published, organized and lectured at numerous national/international conferences, served on study sections for various federal and non-profit funding agencies, and is on the Editorial Board of a dozen of scientific journals.

Khalid Shah is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and directs the Molecular Neurotherapy and Imaging Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. He is also the Director of the Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging program in MGH's Center for Translational Research, and is a Principal Faculty at Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Boston. Dr. Shah's recently published works are two books featuring current groundbreaking insights into stem cell therapies for cancer, Stem Cell Therapeutics for Cancer (Wiley-Blackwell 2013), and Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Cancer Therapy (Elsevier 2014). The potential of developing novel cancer therapies by him and his team has been recognized by many cancer alliances and associations. Based on this, he has received the young investigator award from Alliance for cancer gene therapy (ACGT), Research fellow award from American Cancer Society (ACS), Distinguished research award from Academy of Radiology and Innovation awards from James McDonnell Foundation, American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA) and Goldhirsh foundation. Additionally, Dr. Shah has participated in the training of numerous undergraduate, graduate students and residents at MGH and the potential of his mentoring has been recognized by Harvard Medical School, who recently awarded him the Harvard Young Mentor Award.

In recent years, Dr. Shah and his team have pioneered major developments in the cancer research field, successfully developing experimental models to understand basic cancer biology and therapeutic stem cells for cancer, particularly brain tumors. These studies have been published in a number of very high impact journals like Nature Neuroscience, PNAS, Nature Reviews Cancer, JNCI, Stem Cells and Lancet Oncology, validating the use of therapeutic stem cells alone and in combination with clinically approved drugs for cancer therapy.

Diana Anderson completed her PhD in the Faculty of Medicine University of Manchester, UK. She currently holds the Established Chair in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Bradford. She has published over 450 papers and eight books. She has served on 10 editorial boards, has supervised 30 PhD students and is Editor- in- Chief of the Book Series “Issues in Toxicology” for the Royal Society of Chemistry. She has hosted and participated in 56 meetings for the WHO on Chemical Safety. She has been a Vice President of the Institute of Biology.renowned nephropathologist with over 35 years of experience in renal pathology. Having received his Doctor of Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico, he has over 30 years of research on renal damage associated with multiple myeloma. Before becoming the Chair of Pathology of LSU Health Shreveport, Dr. Herrera was the Medical Director of Nephrocor, a private renal pathology laboratory. He has served as Professor and Chair at St. Louis University as well as Director of Surgical Pathology at both the University of Alabama and the University of Mississippi. Dr. Herrera is a retired Colonel with the U.S. Army. He is also a Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at LSU Health in Shreveport.

cancer, oxygen radicals, human biomonitoring, unbalanced precursor pools, dietary imbalance, male-mediated developmental defects, nanotoxicology, general toxicology

Dennis M. Lox M.D is the Director of the Sports and Regenerative Medicine Centers A Stem Cell Center of Excellence in the Washington D.C. Metro Area and the Tampa Bay Metro Area. Dr. Lox attended the University of Arizona, where he was Phi Beta Kappa studying Liberal Arts. Dr. Lox then completed his medical training at Texas Tech University, followed by his residency program in PM&R at The University of Texas Health Science Centers at San Antonio. Dr. Lox has always pursued Sports Medicine, and this led to a path into Regenerative Medicine.

Lox has always pursued Sports Medicine, and this led to a path into Regenerative Medicine.

Esma S. Yolcu is Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and the Director of Imaging Facility at the Institute for Cellular Therapeutics and member of James Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. Dr. Yolcu received her Ph.D. degree from University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey and joined the University Of Louisville School Of Medicine in Louisville, KY, to pursue her postdoctoral training. Dr. Yolcus research focuses on novel immunomodulatory approaches for the induction of tolerance to auto and alloantigens for the purpose of treating rejection and autoimmunty. Dr. Yolcu is the recipient of several awards, member of various national and international societies, serves on Editorial Board of scientific journals, and published over 67 peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, and review articles in high ranking journals, such as Immunity, Circulation, Blood, and the Journal of Immunology.

Dr. Yolcu’s research interests include developing strategies to induce tolerance to auto and alloantigens for the purpose of treating autoimmune diseases and preventing allograft rejection. She co-pioneered a novel technology described as ProtEx™ with Dr. Shirwan as a practical alternative to gene therapy to display immunoregulatory molecules on the surface of bone marrow cells and use such engineered cells as a means of immunomodulation to establish mixed allogeneic hematopoietic chimerism under non-myeloablative conditions without graft-related toxicity such as graft versus host disease.

Mei Wan is an Associate professor of the Center for Musculoskeletal Research, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She obtained her Ph.D. in Pathophysiology at Hebei Medical University in 1997. In recent years, she found that active TGFβ can be released from tissue in response to perturbations to the local environment such as bone remodeling (Nat. Med. 2009, Cell Stem Cell 2011), arterial injury (Stem Cells 2012, Stem Cell Dev. 2014), and lung injury (J. Immunol. 2014). The released active TGFβ stimulates the migration of MSCs to participate in tissue repair or remodeling. Currently, Dr. Mei Wan is an editorial board member for Journal of Bone and Mineral Research and Bone Research.

Mei Wan has a research experience from the past 17 years, her focuses is on characterizing the mechanisms by which bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are regulated in various physiological and pathological conditions such as bone remodeling, cancer development, vascular disorders, and tissue repair/remodeling. At earlier years of her career, she demonstrated that the role of proteosome degradation pathway in the regulation of TGFβ signaling. She also identified the central mechanism through which parathyroid hormone stimulates bone formation, which had been the major unresolved question in bone field.

Margarita Glazova, received the Ph.D. (1997) fromSechenovInstitute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Science and postdoctoral fellow of Adj. Professor P.Koskinen, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku/Ã…boAkademi, Finland (2001-2003). She was a Research Associate of Prof. A.K.Murashov, East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, Department of Physiology, Greenville, NC, USA (2004-2006).

She is a Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Comparative Somnology and Neuroendocrinology, Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg, Russia. She has published more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals