Registration Now Open for Stem Cell Symposium StemCONN 2011
March 22 in Farmington

Registration is now open for StemConn 2011.

The full-day scientific symposium, highlighting the most recent discoveries in stem cell research, will take place Tuesday, March 22, in Farmington, Conn, at the Marriott Hotel (scientific session) and the UConn Health Center (commercial session and tour).

To register, visit the official website at http://stemconn.org/.

StemConn 2011 will feature a scientific session, a panel discussing stem cell commercialization, a scientific poster session, and a tour of the newly renovated Cell and Genome Sciences Building at the UConn Health Center in Farmington.

Also included is a poster session at which academic research entities both within and outside of Connecticut are invited to share their work. Poster session deadline: January 21, 2011. See the website for more information and for instructions on submitting abstracts.

Featured speakers include Fiona Doetsch of Columbia University, Kevin Eggan of Harvard University, and Shahin Rafii of Cornell University. Connecticut Scientific Speakers include Gordon Carmichael of UConn and Valerie Horsley and Laura Niklason of Yale. The panel discussion on stem cell commercialization, "Stem Cells for Profit?", includes Caroline Dealy of Chondrogenics and UConn and Timothy Shannon of Canaan Partners. See the website for updates and further details.

Additional Sponsorships and Exhibitor Space are available. See the website for details.

The organizers of StemConn 2011 are CURE (Connecticut United for Research Excellence), the Connecticut Department of Public Health, the University of Connecticut Stem Cell Institute, Wesleyan University, and the Yale Stem Cell Center. For a full list of sponsors, see the website.