External Speaker Series

The Medicine by Design Global Speaker Series invites established and emerging international leaders in regenerative medicine to engage with our extraordinary community of researchers and clinicians. Medicine by Design, in partnership with the McEwen Stem Cell Institute, is pleased to welcome Gordon Fishell, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and the Stanley Center at the Broad. The […]

Daniela Panáková, Ph.D. Group Leader Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany Daniela Panáková received her PhD in 2005 at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany under the supervision of Suzanne Eaton. She has worked with Drosophila model on the concept of how the hydrophobic morphogens such as Wnt can spread in […]

Derk Joester, PhD. Associate Professor Department of Materials Science & Engineering Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA Compositional And Structural Gradients In Dental Enamel: From Nano- To Mesoscale Tuesday October 11, 2022 12:00 pm Biography: Derk Joester is originally from Munich (Bavaria, Germany) and studied Chemistry in Tübingen. He travelled to the US on a Fulbright […]

About the series To what extent can we plan and design our careers? How much depends on our environment, the choices we make, the opportunities that present themselves, the networks we build, and the achievements and failures we experience along the way? Medicine by Design and Stem Cell Network have partnered to host Careers Beyond […]

The Medicine by Design Global Speaker Series invites established and emerging international leaders in regenerative medicine to engage with our extraordinary community of researchers and clinicians. Medicine by Design, in partnership with the McEwen Stem Cell Institute, is pleased to welcome Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna, PhD, Senior Scientist and Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science. The title […]

Jordi Alastruey, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London ***This is a Zoom only event Jordi Alastruey received the M.Sc. degree in civil engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from Imperial College London (ICL), London, U.K., in […]

The Medicine by Design Global Speaker Series invites established and emerging international leaders in regenerative medicine to engage with our extraordinary community of researchers and clinicians. Medicine by Design, in partnership with the McEwen Stem Cell Institute, is pleased to welcome Martin Fussenegger, PhD, Professor, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich. The title of this talk […]

Jeffery Molkentin, Ph.D. Division Director of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology and Heart Institute Co-Director, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Register for the seminar via Zoom Abstract: Collagen production in the adult heart is primarily mediated by the tissue resident interstitial fibroblast. Indeed, adult fibroblast-specific deletion of the molecular […]

The Future of Drug Development through Companion Diagnostics and Therapeutics approaches Nathan Yoganathan, President & Chief Scientific Officer JN Nova Pharma Inc.  (more info) https://jnnova.com/ Wednesday, December 7, 2022 RS 207: 2:00-3:00 PM Rosebrugh Building (RS): 164 College St, Toronto, ON M5S 3E2 https://goo.gl/maps/bVujArG4VdA7MHEo7 Abstract:  Dr. Nathan Yoganathan, President & CSO of JN Nova Pharma […]

Please join us for an ECHO webinar featuring Prof. Stephanie Willerth, who will provide an overview of Axolotl Biosciences, its technologies and the story behind its success. Axolotl Biosciences – an award-winning spin-off company from the University of Victoria – sells high quality reagents for 3D printing human tissue models. https://www.axolotlbiosciences.com/  Guest Speaker Prof. Stephanie Willerth, […]