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All times in Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)

8:00am – 8:30am

BREAKFAST

8:30am - 8:40am

WELCOME REMARKS
Daniel Geschwind, MD, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor, Precision Health
UCLA

Steven M Dubinett, MD
Interim Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine
UCLA

Dr. Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg
Honored Guests

8:45am - 9:20am

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy-Add it or Edit?
Donald Kohn, MD
Distinguished Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics
UCLA

9:25am - 10:00am

Engineering Next-Generation CAR-T Cells for Cancer Immunotherapy
Yvonne Chen, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
UCLA

10:00am - 10:15am

BREAK

10:15am - 11:00am

PLENARY SPEAKER
Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precision Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks
David Liu, PhD 
Professor and Director of the Merkin Institute of Transformative Technologies in Healthcare
Broad Institute

11:00am - 12:00pm

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
CRISPR Cures: Genome Editing as a New Biomedical Frontier
Jennifer Doudna, PhD
Li Ka Shing Chancellor's Chair in Biomedical and Health Sciences
Professor, Depts. of Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry
UC Berkeley

12:00pm - 12:15pm

ANNOUNCEMENT: 2022 GINSBURG FELLOW
Dr. Dan Geschwind, MD, PhD and Dr. Allen Ginsburg, MD

12:15pm - 1:00pm

LUNCH

1:00pm - 1:30pm

LIGHTNING ROUND: Trainee Presentations (3)

  • Person 1: Kelsey Jarrett, PhD - Manipulating Hepatic Bile Acid Production using Genome Editing to Modulate Cardio-Metabolic Disease Risk
  • Person 2: George Chen, PhD - Targeting enhancers of autism risk genes CHD8 and SCN2A using CRISPR-A corrects mutant gene expression and phenotypes in developing brain organoids
  • Person 3: Grace McAuley - Base Editing of Hematopoietic Stem Cells Rescues T-Cell Development for CD3 Severe

1:35pm - 2:10pm

Fetal Therapy for Single-Gene Disorders
Tippi C. Mackenzie, MD
Professor and Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Institute for Regenerative Medicine
UCSF

2:15pm - 2:50pm

Ethics and Governance of Human Genome Editing
R. Alta Charo, JD
Professor Emerita of Law & Bioethics
University of Wisconsin – Madison

2:50pm - 3:00pm

BREAK

3:00pm - 3:20pm

Disrupting Duchenne:  Advancing Precision Genetic Medicine through Science, Policy, and Practice
Diane Berry, PhD
Senior Vice President, Global Policy, Government & Patient Affairs 
Sarepta Therapeutics

3:20pm - 3:40pm

Development of Treatments for Rare Diseases  
Emil D. Kakkis, MD, PhD
Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Ultragenyx

3:40pm - 4:00pm

FDA’s Efforts to Advance Gene Therapy
Peter Marks, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
U.S. Food and Drug Administration

4:00pm - 4:10pm

BREAK

4:10pm - 4:50pm

Meet the Experts: Frontiers in Ethical and Regulatory Perspectives 
Panelists: R. Alta Charo, JD, Diane Berry, PhD, Emil D. Kakkis, MD, PhD, Peter Marks, MD, PhD
Moderator: Carrie Miceli, PhD, Professor of Microbiology Immunology and Molecular Genetics, UCLA

4:50pm - 5:00pm

CLOSING REMARKS

5:00pm - 6:30pm

WINE RECEPTION

 

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