The 12th Takeda Science Foundation Symposium on PharmaSciences

Program

List of Invited Speakers and Tentative Talk Titles

* Alphabetical order

as of the end of June, 2025

Towards reconstituting human and non-human primate embryonic development

Cantas Alev

Cantas Alev Kyoto University Japan

From Embryos to Human Brain Organoids: the Journey to Understand Human Brain Development and Disease

Paola Arlotta

Paola Arlotta Harvard University USA

Organoids for cystic fibrosis precision medicine

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Jeffrey Beekman UMC Utrecht Netherlands

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Organoids, Disease Modeling and Drug Screening

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Shuibing Chen Weill Cornell Medicine USA

Organoids to model human diseases

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Hans Clevers Hubrecht Institute Netherlands

Organoid modeling of lung disease and lung cancer

Carla Kim

Carla Kim Boston Children’s Hospital USA

Using organoids to understand and target the human brain

Madeline A. Lancaster

Madeline A. Lancaster University of Cambridge UK

Design principles of tissue organization

Prisca Liberali

Prisca Liberali Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Switzerland

Moving from an understanding of kidney development to new therapies

Melissa Little

Melissa Little Murdoch Children's Research Institute Australia

Engineering Organoids

Matthias P. Lütolf

Matthias P. Lütolf Institute of Human Biology/Swiss Federal Institute of Thechnology Lausanne Switzerland

Cardioids unravel human heart development and disease

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Sasha Mendjan Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Austria

Periodic tissue structure formation in the respiratory system and its reconstruction using organoid culture system

Mitsuru Morimoto

Mitsuru Morimoto RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research Japan

Archaic Genomics

Svante Pääbo

Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute Germany

A Decade of Molecular Cell Atlases

Steve Quake

Steve Quake Chan Zuckerberg Initiative USA

The fate of cells carrying mutations in cancer driver genes

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Jacco van Rheenen Netherlands Cancer Institute

Mechanism and in vitro reconstitution of human germ cell development

Mitinori Saitou

Mitinori Saitou Kyoto University Japan

Understanding of human disease biology using organoids

Toshiro Sato

Toshiro Sato Keio University Japan

Spatiotemporal dynamics of sperm production

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Benjamin Simons University of Cambridge UK

Organoid-guided Precsion Hepatology

Takanori Takebe

Takanori Takebe Cincinnati Children’s/ Institute of Science Tokyo/ The University of Osaka USA/Japan

Organoids to model maternal-fetal interactions in human pregnancy

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Margherita Yayoi Turco Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research Switzerland

Engineering human tissue organoids from pluripotent stem cells to advance therapeutic discovery

James M. Wells

James M. Wells Cincinnati Children’s USA

Developmental plasticity and robustness: decoding the principles of early development

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Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Califirnia Institute of Technology USA