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Conference

Program

Six sessions with scientific talks and discussions from nine world-leading experts

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Friday, October 18, 2024                                       
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Registration, Breakfast, & Poster Setup

Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Exhibit Hall - 2nd Floor, 209 Victoria Street

9:00 - 11:00 AM

Poster Session

Unity Health Toronto Trainees & Research Associates

11:00 - 12:30 PM

Panel Discussion - Workshop: From Lab to Leadership - Scientist Insights 

12:30 - 1:30 PM

Lunch - Mingling with Mentors 

1:30 - 3:00 PM

Poster Session with Mentors

 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Keynote Session: Fundamental Processes of Organ Repair After Injury

3:00 - 4:15 PM

Badge Pick-Up

Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Exhibit Hall - 2nd Floor, 209 Victoria Street

4:15 - 4:40 PM

Opening Remarks and a Commemoration to Pat Keenan

Dr. Ori Rotstein (Unity Health Toronto)

Sean Keenan on behalf of the Keenan Family

4:40 - 4:45 PM

Speaker Introduction

Dr. Boris Hinz (Unity Health Toronto)

4:45 - 5:35 PM

Keynote Lecture: Wound healing: from fly to fish to mouse to man to cancer

Dr. Paul Martin (University of Bristol, UK)

5:35 - 5:50 PM

Session Discussion

6:00 - 6:30 PM

Guided Walk to Networking Event* Venue

7:00 PM

Networking Event*

*Ticket required – will be obtained with conference badge at check-in.

Saturday, October 19, 2024                                       
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Opening Session: Single Cell Contributions to Organ Repair and Fibrosis - the Big Picture

8:10 - 8:20 AM

Chair 1: Dr. Boris Hinz (Unity Health Toronto)

Speaker Introduction

8:20 - 9:00 AM

Using single cell genomics and spatial profiling to decode human liver injury and repair

Dr. Neil Henderson (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Session 1: Mechanical Aspects of Organ Repair and Fibrosis

9:00 - 9:10 AM

Chair 2: Dr. Andras Kapus (Unity Health Toronto)

Speaker Introduction

9:10 - 9:50 AM

Mechano-therapies to treat lung fibrosis

Dr. Dan Tschumperlin (Mayo Clinics, USA)

9:50  - 10:30 AM

New insights into nuclear mechanobiology in physiology and disease

Dr. Jan Lammerding (Cornell University, USA)

10:30 - 11:10 AM

Coffee Break

Session 2: What a Wounderful World: Skin and Kidney Repair and Fibrosis

11:10 - 11:20 AM

Chair 3: Dr. Darren Yuen (Unity Health Toronto)

Speaker Introduction

11:20 - 12:00 PM

Molecular pathways that drive diabetic kidney disease

Dr. Katalin Susztak (University of Pennsylvania, USA )

12:00 - 12:40 PM

12:40 - 2:10 PM

Lunch Break (including Conference Photograph on LKSKI Stairs)

Session 3:  The Good and Bad of Regeneration

2:10 - 2:20 PM

Chair 4: Dr. Kelsie Thu (Unity Health Toronto)

Speaker Introduction

2:20 - 3:00 PM

3:00 - 3:40 PM

Cancer and its associated fibroblasts

Dr. Ellen Puré (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

3:40 - 4:10 PM

Coffee Break

Session 4:  Hearts: All You Need to Heal

4:10 - 4:20 PM

Chair 4: Dr. Kim Connelly (Unity Health Toronto)

Speaker Introduction

4:20 - 5:00 PM

5:00 - 5:45 PM

Wrap up: Open Discussion and Closing of the Symposium

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