12:30-13:30

Registration & Reception

13:30-13:50

Opening Remarks

Session I- Stem Cell Therapy & Regenerative Medicine
Moderator: Ching-Feng Cheng鄭敬楓 主任
Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan

13:50-14:30

The Opportunities and Challenges in Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy
Patrick C.H. Hsieh 謝清河
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

14:30-15:10

Therapeutic Benefit of Urocortin in Intracerebral Hemorrhage Rats
Chih-Wei Hsu 許智偉
Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan

15:10-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-16:10

Chemically Induced Liver Fibrosis Can Be Alleviated by Stem Cell
Transplantations
Tzyy-Wen Chiou 邱紫文
National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan

16:10-16:50

Strategies in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
Hung-Chuan Pan 潘宏川
Taichung Veterans General Hospital & National Chung Hsing University,
Taichung, Taiwan

16:50-17:30

Cell Therapy for Liver Diseases
Chun-Hsien Yu 余俊賢
Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

18:00-20:00

Welcome Banquet (Sphere of Lazuli Dining Hall)

09:00-09:40

Registration & Reception

Session II- Advances in Stem Cell Research
Moderator: Ing-Ming Chiu邱英明 教授
National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan

09:40-10:20

Axon Formation in the Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Motoneuron
Hong-Lin Su 蘇鴻麟
National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

10:20-11:00

Application of Umbilical Cord-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Dah-Ching Ding 丁大清
Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan

11:00-11:40

Blood Born Cells Promote Peripheral Nerve and Spinal Cord Axon
Regeneration and Neurological Recovery while Reducing / Eliminating
Neuropathic Pain
Damien P Kuffler
University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

11:40-13:30

Lunch (He Qi Conference Room)

Session III- Keynote Lectures
Moderator: Dr. Tzu-Yung Chen陳子勇 院長
Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

13:30-14:10

Neural Stem Cells and Therapy in Peripheral Nerve Injury
Ing-Ming Chiu 邱英明
National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan

14:10-14:50

Mechanisms of Lithium Effects on Neural Stem Cells
Wise Young 楊詠威
W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience and Rutgers the State
University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA

14:50-15:10

Coffee Break

15:10-15:50

Round Table Discussion & Closing Remark