speakers

explore the list of ISSCR 2026 speakers below. speakers will be added as they are confirmed.

plenary session speakers

concurrent track session speakers

clinical applications track

Brian Bigger, PhD, The University of Edinburgh, UK

Faranak Fattahi, PhD, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Michael G. Fehlings, MD, PhD, University of Toronto & Toronto Western Hospital, Canada

Michael A. Laflamme, MD, PhD, McEwen Stem Cell Institute, University Health Network, Canada

Guy Sauvageau, PhD, Institute for Research in Immunology & Cancer, Université de Montréal, Canada 

Nobukatsu Sawamoto, MD, PhD, Kyoto University, Japan

disease modeling track

Daniela Cornacchia, PhD, AstraZeneca, Sweden

Li Gan, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA

Sasha Mendjan, PhD, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, IMBA, Austria

Samira Musah, PhD, Duke University, USA

Hongjun Song, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA

somatic stem cells track

Julia Cordero, PhD, University of Glasgow & the CRUK Institute, UK

Isabel Farinas, PhD, University of Valencia, Spain

Longhua Guo, PhD, University of Michigan, USA

Musa M. Mhlanga, PhD, Radboud Institute for Molecular Lifesciences (RiMLS), Netherlands

Pura Muñoz-Cánoves, PhD, Altos Labs San Diego Institute of Science, USA

Sandra Scharaw, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany

Yan Song, PhD, Peking University, China

capturing development track

Cantas Alev, MD, PhD, Kyoto University, Japan

Petra Hajkova, PhD, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS), UK

Myriam Hemberger, PhD, University of Calgary, Canada

Kara McKinley, PhD, Harvard University/HHMI, USA

Erez Raz, PhD, Muenster University, Germany

Ramkumar Sambasivan, PhD, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Tirupati, India

Ina Sonnen, PhD, Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands

engineering biology track

​Morgan Craig, PhD, Sainte-Justine University Hospital Azrieli Research Centre and Université de Montréal, Canada

Anna Kicheva, PhD, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria

Pulin Li, PhD, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, USA

Wendell A. Lim, PhD, University of California San Francisco, USA

Mark Skylar-Scott, PhD, Stanford University, USA

Susan N. Thomas, PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Peter Zandstra, PhD, FRSC, PEng, The University of British Columbia, Canada

Josef Penninger, MD, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany and The University of British Columbia, Canada