REGENAGE 2026
Programme
Provisional and may be subject to change
Day 1: January 26, 2026
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:10 Opening – Anjali Kusumbe
09:10 - 09:15 Kristijan Ramadan, Cancer Discovery and Regenerative Medicine
Keynote Talk
Chairs: Yasunori Saheki & Manju Chandran
09:15 – 09:50 Mone Zaidi, Icahn School of Medicine, USA
Can we treat three aging disorders — Osteoporosis, Obesity and Alzheimer’s
disease — with a single therapeutic?
Photo session
Session 1: Bone Marrow Microenvironment
Chair: Kanaga Sabapathy & Manju Chandran
09:50 – 10:15 Michael Milsom, Germany
Intrinsic, extrinsic and stochastic mechanisms underlying the evolution of aged
haematopoiesis
10:15 – 10:40 Yoshiaki Kubota, Japan
Angiocrine signalling in tissue repair
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee Break
Session 2: Metabolic Regulation and Vascular Health
Chairs: Tan Nguan Soon & Torsten Wuestefeld
11:10 – 11:35 Yu Huang, China
Cellular and molecular process in endothelial dysfunction
11:35 – 12:00 Saravana Ramasamy, Singapore
Metabolic regulation of the bone microenvironment
12:00 – 12:25 Jonathan Loh, Singapore
Cell fate engineering for therapy
12:25 –01:25 Lunch Break
Session 3: Regeneration across Tissues & Species
Chairs: Navin Kumar Verma & Rinkoo Dalan
01:25 – 01:50 Purushothama Rao Tata, USA
Lung regeneration: Cells, models and mechanisms
01:50 – 02:15 Gerald Watts, Australia
Molecular regulation of residual risk of ASCVD
02:15 – 02:40 Yen Choo, Singapore
A platform technology for rational reprogramming of cellular identity
02:40 – 02:50 Short Talk – Su Su Htwe, Singapore
A combinatorial 3D bead -based organoid screening platform for the discovery of
tissue-specific niche signals in regenerative medicine
Short Talk Session
Chairs: Soumiya RP & Yang Yang
02:50 – 03: 00 Short Talk – Bryan Ng, Singapore
Integrating accelerated ageing in human glial cells
03:00 – 03: 10 Short Talk – Grace Lim, Singapore
Targeting stem cell plasticity in gastric cancer and metastasis
03:10 – 03: 20 Short Talk – Kye Siong Leong, Singapore
Midkine-mediated neovascularization in ischemic heart
03:20 – 03:40 Coffee Break
Session 4: Stem Cell Ageing & Regeneration
Chair: Tan Nguan Soon & Tom James Carney
03:40 – 04:05 Maximina Yun, China
Regeneration in axolotls
04:05 – 04:30 Wee Wei Tee, Singapore
Epigenetic regulation in development and disease
04:30 – 04:55 John Mamo, Australia
Ageing & Neurovascular diseases
04:55 – 05:05 Talk by Andy Tay, Singapore
Innovating tissue repair with biomaterials
05:05 – 05:45 Poster Tour & Networking
Day 2: January 27, 2026
Session 1: Emerging Research & Technologies
Chair: Yasunori Saheki & Mone Zaidi
09:00 – 09:25 Janet Rossant, Editor in Chief, Stem Cell Reports
Publishing in Stem Cell Reports
09:25 – 09:50 Pilhan Kim, South Korea
Real-time intravital visualization of dynamic cellular-level vascular alteration in
pathological condition
09:50 – 10.15 Christine Cheung, Singapore
Personalised vascular models
10.15 – 10:35 Anjali Kusumbe, Singapore
Dynamic vascular and niche changes across lifespan
10:35 – 10:45 Talk by Junyu Chen, China
Vascular regulation of osteonecrosis of jaw
10:45 – 11:05 Coffee Break
Session 2: DNA Damage and Genomic Instability
Chairs: Kanaga Sabapathy & Kristijan Ramadan
11:05 – 11:30 Marco Foiani, Italy
Cellular pathways in genome integrity
11:30 – 11:55 Ira Milosevic, Portugal
Dynamins maintain nuclear envelope homeostasis & genome stability
11:55 – 12:15 Kristijan Ramadan, Singapore
DNA-protein crosslinks as drivers of cancer and neurodegeneration
12:15 – 12:35 Talk by Gem Pharmatech
Genetically engineered mouse models and preclinical services
12:35 – 12:45 Awards & Closing
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