Cell Symposia: Gene and cell-based therapies: Progress in clinical translation
Co-sponsored by the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute
November 2–4, 2025 | Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Over the past several years, gene therapies and cell-based immunotherapies have become a reality, with several products approved by global regulatory agencies and hundreds of clinical trials ongoing. Gene-editing approaches leveraging programmable nucleases and advances in the use of adeno-associated virus as a delivery vector for gene therapy have invigorated work in this area. Likewise, innovations in the biomanufacturing of cell-based products and the use of stem cells for studying and developing treatments for age-related disease have stimulated tremendous clinical progress in regenerative medicine. This meeting will bring together academic and industry scientists and clinicians working on developing and implementing gene therapy and cell-based therapy for a wide variety of conditions.

Themes include:

• Cell replacement therapy

• Gene therapy

• Therapeutic screening

• Aging and rejuvenation

• Emerging immune approaches

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Keynote speakers

• Felicia Pagliuca, USA
  Malin Parmar, Sweden

Speakers

• Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, USA
  Christine Brown, USA
  Donald Ingber, USA
  Don Kohn, USA
  Chuck Murry, USA
  Hideyuki Okano, Japan
  Thomas Rando, USA
  Sonja Schrepfer, USA
  Gerald Schwank, Switzerland
  Xiling Shen, USA
  Sheila Singh, Canada
  Simone Spuler, Germany
  Clive Svendsen, USA
  Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, USA
  Lisa Wagar, USA
  Ying Zhang, China

Organizers

• Clive Svendsen, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, CA, USA
  Thomas Rando, UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center, CA, USA
  Sheila Chari, Editor-in-chief, Cell Stem Cell
  Sara Hamilton, Editor-in-chief, Cell Reports Medicine

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