The 4th International Spinal Cord Injury Treatments & Trials Symposium
The IANR V and 9th GCNN Conference
Program

4 May 2012 (Friday)

10:00 - 22:00	On-Site Registration
13:30-19:00	Venue: Hall One Spinal Cord Injury Trials: Industry Perspective Moderators: Mahendra Rao & Wise Young	13:30-19:00	Venue: Hall Two
13:00 - 13:30	Human Neural Stem Cell - Karl Johe, NeuralStem. US	13:00-15:30	Neurorestoratological Youth Forum - Geoffrey Raisman - Paul R. Sanberg
13:30 - 14:00	Gene-modified Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Neural Regeneration: Translating Clinical Experience in Chronic Stroke to Spinal Cord Injury -  Casey Case, SanBio, US
14:00 - 14:30	Cethrin treatment for acute spinal cord injury: clinical trial update - Lisa McKerracher, Bioaxone Biosciences, USA
14:30 - 15:00	Neuroprotectant for treating spinal cord injury, Nogo receptor and beyond - Daniel Lee, Roche Pharmaceutical Research & Early Development Center
15:00 - 15:10	Tea Break	15:30-17:30	Round-table Meeting: neurorestoratology of stroke
15:10 - 15:40	Umbilical Cord Blood Mononuclear Cell Therapy of SCI and Stroke - Wise Young, Stemcyte, US
15:40 - 16:10	Overview on Celgene Cellular Therapeutics - Bob Hariri, Celgene Cellular Therapeutics, US
16:10 - 16:40	Spinal Cord Injury and cell based therapy - Mahendra Rao, NIH	17:30-19:00	Pain Forum: Traditions and Advances - Ling Wei - Baoliang Geng - Lin Chen
16:40 - 17:00	Discussion
17:00 - 19:00	Roundtable Meeting: advances on neurorestoratology of spinal cord injury
19:00-21:00	Dinner

5 May 2012 (Saturday)

	Topic: Opening Ceremony & Keynote Presentation Venue: Hall One
08:00 - 08:20	Opening Ceremony & Welcome Remark Xijing He Ziad AL-Zoubi Hari Sharker Sharma
08:20 - 08:50	Group Photo
08:50 - 12:10 Core Presentation	08:50 - 09:20  Challenges in Neurorestoratology - Geoffrey Raisman
	09:20 - 09:50  Developing history of Neurorestoratology - Hongyun Huang
	09:50 - 10:20  Progress of cell therapies in Neurorestoratology - Paul R. Sanberg
	10:20 - 10:40  Tea Break
	10:40 - 11:10  Pharmacotherapy Progress in Neurorestoratology - Hari Sharker Sharma
	11:10 - 11:40  Neurorestoration of spinal cord injury by electrical stimulation - Reggie Edgerton
	11:40 - 12:10  Progress on Spinal Cord Injury in Neurorestoratology - Wise Young
13:30-17:30	Venue: Hall One Endogenous and Exogenous Repair Mechanisms for Regenerative Medicine Moderators： Kwok-fai So & Pei Duanqing		Venue: Hall Two
13:30 - 14:00	Functional Significance of adult neural stem cell - Kwok-fai So, the University of Hong Kong	13:30-16:00  General Neurorestoratology • CNS Injury & repair. Role of nanomedicine, Stem Cells, Antibodies and other therapeutic agents (Hari S. Sharma,Sweden) • Plasticity of motor skill learning after brain lesions: mechanisms (Leonardo G. Cohen,USA) • Post-Genome Technologies in Neurorestoratology: from Mapping and Profiling of Stem Cell Proteome to the Development of Personalized Cell Preparations for Regenerative Therapy of Neural Disorders (Andrey S.Bryukhovetskiy, Russia) • The crosstalk between vascular and degenerative mechanism in neurocognitive disorders. Is there a place for endogenous neurogenesis? (Dafin F. Muresanu,Romania) • Why is Cognitive Neuro-rehabilitation important and what can we do to improve it? (Dajue Wang,UK) • Evaluation of stem cell transplantation for brain disorders (Nanbert Zhong,China) • Nanomedicine and Central Nervous System: the application, the perspectives and the future (Giovanni Tosi,Italy) • New data on restoration processes in traumatic brain injury, including the discovery of a new CSF hormone made by choroid plexus (Conrad Johanson,USA) • Reconstruction of spinal cord function (Jianjun Li,China)
14:00 - 14:20	Clinical Trial of Umbilical Cord Blood Cell for Spinal Cord Injury - Gilberto Leung, University of Hong Kong
14:20 - 14:40	Umbilical Cord Blood Cell for Spinal Cord Injury: From Laboratory to Operation Theatre - Kent Tsang, Chinese University of Hong Kong
14:40 - 15:00	Surgical Aspect of Umbilical Cord Blood Cell Transplant to Spinal Cord – David Sun, Chinese University of Hong Kong
15:00 - 15:20	A neonatal mouse SCI model for testing human stem cells including high throughput functional imaging of synaptic condition - Joel Glover, The Norwegian Center for Stem Cell Research, Norway
15:20 - 15:30	Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00	Stereotaxic implantation of Olfactory ensheathing cell (OECs) for stroke patients - Woei-Cherng Shyu, China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan
16:00 - 16:30	Muse cells, a novel type of adult human pluripotent stem cells that reside in mesenchymal tissues: their great possibility for regenerative medicine - Mari Dezawa, Tohoku University, Japan	16:00-18:00  Geriatric Neurorestoratology • Multiple cell transplantations of stroke patients (Hongyun Huang,China) • Clinical consequences based on the laterality in Parkinson's disease (Peter Reiderer, Germany) • Intracerebral implantation of Stem Cells Promotes the Regeneration of Corticospinal Tracts in Stroke Patients (Shinn-zong Lin,Taiwan,China) • Neurorestoration strategies in Parkinsons Disease (Barry Hoffer,USA)
16:30 - 17:00	Reprogramming the somatic cell fate to pluripotency for regenerative medicine - Duanqing Pei, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine & Health, CAS, China
17:00 -17:30	Discussion
17:30-19:00	Hereditary Neurorestoratology • Clinical results of autologous bone marrow derived adult stem cell transplantation in muscular dystrophy (Alok Sharma,India) • Myogenic cell transplantation for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients (Daniel Skuk,Canada)	18:00-19:00  Pediatric Neurorestoratology • Pathways to Protection from Pediatric Anesthetics (William Slikker,USA) • Neural precursor cell transplantation in the treatment of central visual impairment in children (Zuoluan,China) • Integrated Regenerative Therapy Program (IRTP) for management of Autism and other disabilities（Yehia Yousif, Saudi Arabia）
19:00 - 21:00	Welcome Dinner

6 May, 2012 (Sunday)

	Venue: Hall One		Venue: Hall Two
08:00 - 12:00  Traumatic Neurorestoratology • Long-term follow-up observation on patients with spinal cord injury by Cell therapy (Xijing He,China) • Long-term follow up results for patients with spinal cord injury by cell transplantation (Ziad Al-Zoubi,Jordan) • Clinical Observation of Cell Transplantation in patients with SCI (Tiansheng Sun,China) • Cell Transplantation in the Treatment of SCI (Shiqing Feng,China) • Requirements for Interventions to prove Added Value to Neurological Recovery following Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries (Wagih S El Masri,UK) • Morbidity Aspects in Spinal Cord Injury with Insights into the Transplantation of Stem Cells in the Injured Cord (Ali Otom,Jordan) • Electromyography monitoring for complete and incomplete transections of the spinal cord in humans who received a cell therapy combined with LASERPONCTURE® or LASERPONCTURE® only. Methodology, analysis, and results (Albert Bohbot,France) • Fisical Therapy in stem cell implanted patients with spinal cord injury (María Teresita Moviglia Brandolino,Agentina) • Four essential aspects to procure the the recovery of chronic complete Spinal Cord injured patients(Gustavo Moviglia, Argentina) • Mobilization of bone marrow progenitor cells as novel marker of regenerative potential in traumatic brain injury (Elena Rem Chernykh,Russia) • Olfactory bulb ensheathing glia transplants activate a repair-specific genetic program in neurons after spinal cord injury (Almudena Ramón Cueto,Spain) • Olfactory Mucosa Transplantation for Spinal Cord Injury-Clinical Trial and Experimental Study (Koichi Iwatsuki,Japan) • Safety of granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) administration in spinal cord injury patients (Hooshang Sabri,Iran) • Clinical Cell Therapy in Spinal Cord Injury (Ming Lu,China)		08:00 - 09:00  Psychiatric Neurorestoratology
		09:00 - 10:00  Pain Neurorestoratology • Neurorestorative therapy for pain（Lin Chen,China）
		10:00 - 11:00  Neuromodulation • Neuromodulation improves Seizures and prognosis (Guoming Luan,China) • Deep Brain Stimulation and neurogenesis, and in addiiton DBS and neuroprotection in Stroke models and Huntington Disease (Harry Steinbusch,Holland) • Lumbar Spinal Cord Network processing capabilities: Spinal Cord Brain and features of motor control after spinal cord njury (Milan Dimitrijevic, Yugoslavia) • Restored motor control after spinal cord injury（Arthur M. Sherwood,USA）
		11:00 - 12:00  Tissue engineering and Bioengineering • Nanotechniques for Neurorestoration (Russell J Andrews,USA) • Tissue engineering technology for Neurorestoratology (Qunyuan Xu,China)
	Venue: Hall One		Venue: Hall Two
13:30-15:40  Surgical treatment of spinal column and spinal cord injury • (Almudena Ramon Cueto) • (Lichi Iwatsuki) • (Hooshang Sabri • (Ming Lu, China) • (Shaocheng Zhang,China)		13:30 - 14:30  Neurorestorative Pharmacotherapy • Bromocriptine prevents spinal motor neurons in vitro and in vivo (Yasuo Iwasaki,Japan) • Protein kinases as therapeutic targets for central nervous system (Stephen Skaper，Italy)
		14:30 - 15:30  Neural Prosthesis
		15:30 - 17:00 Basic Research of Neurorestoratology & Others • Neuroprotection by electroacupuncture against glutamate excitotoxicity-induced RGC death after optic nerve transection in adult rats (Siwei You,China) • Regulated Delivery of GDNF Gene Using Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cells Transduced With a Lentiviral Vector into Mouse Brain (Weiming Duan,China) • Repair rat spinal roots by transplantation of olfactory ensheathing cells (Ying Li,UK) • Directionality and bipolarity of olfactory ensheathing cells on electrospun nanofibres’ (Daqing Li,UK) • Mechanisms underlying protective effects of neural stem cells against traumatic axonal injury (Ping Wu,USA) • Neural potential of human cord blood and umbilical cord cells: a successful translation (Barbara Lukomska,Poland) • Wharton jelly - natural scaffold and the rich source of mesenchymal stem cells (Anna Sarnowska,Poland) • Neuronal spike sorting based on radial basis function neural networks (Alireza Khoshnevisan, Iran
15:40-17:00 Pediatric Neurorestoratology Willianm Slikker, USA) Zuo Luan, China Yehia Yousif, Saudi Arabia)
17:00-1800   Closing Ceremony