Agenda

8:15 AM Registration/Check-in

9:00 AM Opening Remarks
Sangeeta Bhatia, MD, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

9:10 AM It’s Time to Eliminate Hepatitis C in the US
Francis Collins, MD, PhD – National Institutes of Health (VIRTUAL)

9:35 AM Post-transplant Alloimmune Hepatitis: What Do We Know and What’s New
Udeme Ekong, MD, MPH, FAASLD – Georgetown University

10:00 AM Trainee Microtalks  – selected from submitted abstracts 

10:15 AM BREAK
Coffee + Refreshments

10:30 AM Detecting Liver Phenotypes and Toxicity Using Cell Image Data
Anne Carpenter, PhD – Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

10:55 AM Spatial Clonal Tracing in Solid Tissues
Fernando Camargo, PhD – Boston Children’s Hospital

11:20 AM Holistic Multi-scale Molecular Imaging of Human Organs
Kwanghun Chung, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

11:45 AM Trainee Microtalks  – selected from submitted abstracts 

12:00 PM LUNCH + Poster Competition

1:30 PM Cell Identity Conversion: Liver Regeneration and Cell Therapy
Lijian Hui, PhD – Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences

1:55 PM Developing Cirrhosis Therapies: The Three Grand Challenges
Quin Wills, MD, PhD – OchreBio

2:20 PM Pediatric Liver Tumors: Clinical Context and Opportunities for Collaboration
Allison O’Neill, MD – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

2:45 PM BREAK
Coffee + Cookie Trays

3:10 PM Understanding How the Organism Monitors Liver Sufficiency to Properly Time Regeneration
Kristin Knouse, MD, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3:35 PM Cellular and molecular drivers of  Liver cancer response to immunotherapy
Miriam Merad, MD, PhD – Mt Sinai School of Medicine (VIRTUAL)

4:00 PM Closing Remarks & Poster Prizes

Irwin M. Arias, MD (Founder) – National Institutes of Health

Wolfram Goessling, MD, PhD – Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital

Lorraine Stiehl, CEO – American Liver Foundation

4:15 PM Wine & Cheese Reception

5:30 PM Event Concludes