in alphabetical order:
Ian AdcockImperial College London, UK
on “Current Status of Heart and Lung Research: Towards systems medicine in airways disease”
confirmed
Jeffrey BeekmanUniversitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht, The Netherlands
on “Stem Cell Derived Organoids to Test New Therapies in CF”
confirmed
James P. ButlerHarvard Medical School, USA
on “On the potential for lung growth in the adult human”
confirmed
Willem E. FibbeLeiden University, The Netherlands
on "Control of Inflammation by Mesenchymal Stromal Cells"
confirmed
Adam GiangrecoUniversity College London, UK
on “How intrinsic cell signaling regulates airway regeneration”
confirmed
Mark GladwinUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA
on “Regeneration in Pulmonary Hypertension”
confirmed
Martin GrafHoffmann-La Roche AG, Switzerland
on "Stem Cell Applications in a Pharma Company"
confirmed
Gerhard GüntherMember of the State Parliament of Thüringen
as lung-transplant patient
confirmed
Axel HaverichHannover Medical School, Germany
on “Bio-Implants”
confirmed
Pieter HiemstraLeiden University, The Netherlands
on “Airway epithelial repair and differentiation"
confirmed
Connie C. W. HsiaUT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
on “Current status of Lung Imaging: Amplifying the Signals for Compensatory Lung Growth"
confirmed
Stefan JockenhövelRWTH Aachen, Germany
on “Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials”
confirmed
Joren Christian MadsenHarvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
on “Current Status of Heart and Lung Tolerance Studies in Large Animals”
confirmed
Philippe MenaschéDepartment of Cardiac Surgery, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, France,
on “Current Status of Tissue Engineering: Embryonic stem cells for cardiac repair - from basic science to clinical translation”
confirmed
Edward MorriseyUniversity of Pennsylvania, USA
on "Pathways regulating lung stem cells and regeneration"
confirmed
Yaakov NahmiasSchool of Engineering, Faculty of Science The Hebrew University, Israel
on "Challenges and Opportunities in Liver Tissue Engineering"
confirmed
Matthias PerlethFederal Joint Committee (Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss - G-BA), Germany
on "From innovation to reimbursement:How are new treatments introduced into the German health care system"
confirmed
Dirk van RaemdonckUniversity Hospital Leuven, Belgium
on “Current Status of Transplantation”
confirmed
Rafael RosellAutonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
on "Molecular mechanisms within bronchial carcinoma"
confirmed
Bob J. ScholteErasmus MC Cell Biology, Netherlands
on "Animal and cellular models of chronic lung disease, prospects of gene and cellular therapy"
confirmed
Werner SeegerJustus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
on “Endogenous Regenerative Therapy”
confirmed
Hans-Willem SnoeckColumbia University, New Yor, USA
on "Generation of anterior foregut derivatives from human pluripotent stem cells"
confirmed
Daniel WeissUniversity of Vermont, USA
on "Stem Cell Therapy in the Case of Acute Lung Injury"
confirmed
Tobias WelteHannover Medical School, Germany
on “Current Status of Lung Diseases and Regeneration”
confirmed
Amy WongThe Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
on "Directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into mature airway epithelia expressing functional CFTR protein"
confirmed
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