REGENAGE 2026
Programme
Provisional and may be subject to change
Day 1: January 26, 2026
08:30 – 09:00 Registration
09:00 – 09:15 Conference Opening
Keynote Talk
Chair: Manju Chandran & Yasunori Saheki
09:15 – 09:50 Mone Zaidi, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, USA
Can we treat three aging disorders — osteoporosis, obesity and Alzheimer’s disease — with a single therapeutic?
Session 1: Bone Marrow Microenvironment
Chair: Kanaga Sabapathy & Manju Chandran
09:50 – 10:10 Michael Milsom, Germany
Intrinsic, extrinsic and stochastic mechanisms underlying the evolution of aged hematopoiesis
10:10 – 10:30 Yoshiaki Kubota, Keio University, Japan
Angiocrine signaling in tissue repair
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Session 2: Regeneration across tissues
Chairs: Tan Nguan Soon & Navin Kumar Verma
11:00 – 11:20 Purushothama Rao Tata, Duke University, USA
Lung Regeneration: Cells, models and mechanisms
11:20 – 11:40 Jonathan Loh, Singapore
Cell Fate engineering for Therapy
11:40 – 12:00 Sing Yian Chew, Singapore
Scaffold-mediated gene-silencing approaches to understand and direct neural tissue regeneration, stem cell differentiation and host-implant integration
12:00 – 12:10 Short Talk
12:10 – 12:20 Short Talk
12:20 – 01:30 Lunch Break
​Session 3: Metabolic Regulation and Vascular Health
Chairs: Christine Cheung & Torsten Wuestefeld
01:30 – 01:50 Yu Huang, City University of Hong Kong, China
Cellular and molecular process in endothelial dysfunction
01:50 - 02:10 Saravana Ramasamy, Singapore
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of Cardiovascular disease
02:10 – 02:30 Gerald Watts, UWA Medical School, Perth
Vascular dysfunction: from lipid disorders to endothelial health
Short Talk Session
Chairs: Soumiya RP & Yang Yang
02:30 – 02:40 Short Talk
02:40 – 02:50 Short Talk
02:50 – 03:00 Short Talk
03:00 – 03: 30 Coffee Break
Session 4: Stem Cells & Regeneration
Chair: Tan Nguan Soon & Tom James Carney
03:30 – 03:50 Maximina Yun, China
Regeneration in Axolotls
03:50 – 04:10 Wee Wei Tee, Singapore
Epigenetic regulation in development and disease
04:10 – 04:30 Yen Choo, Singapore
Hematopoietic progenitor cell expansion
04:30 – 04:40 Short Talk
04:40 – 04:50 Short Talk
04:50 – 05:30 Networking & Discussion
​Day 2: January 27, 2026
​Session 1: Emerging Research & Future Directions
Chair: Yasunori Saheki & Rinkoo Dalan
09:30 – 09:50 Pilhan Kim, South Korea
Real-time Intravital Visualization of Dynamic Cellular-level Vascular Alteration in Pathological Condition
09:50 – 10:10 Anjali Kusumbe, Singapore
Dynamic vascular changes across lifespan
10:10 – 10:20 Short Talk
10:20 – 10:30 Short Talk
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10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
Session 2: DNA damage and genomic instability
Chairs: Kristijan Ramadan & Kanaga Sabapathy
11:00 – 11:20 Tomoo Ogi, Nagayo University, Japan
Genomic instability in diseases
11:20 – 11:40 Marco Foiani, Italy
Cellular pathways in genome integrity
11:40 – 12:00 Ira Milosevic, Portugal
Dynamins maintain nuclear envelope homeostasis & genome stability
12:00 – 12:10 Closing Remarks