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Schedule at a Glance (Tentative)

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To

Day 1

14:30

15:00

Registration

15:00

15:30

Conferment of Honorary Degree and Opening Ceremony of the 3rd Macau
Symposium of Biomedical Sciences

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To

SESSION 1

15:30

16:30

Doctor honoris causa Lecture
Mario R. Cepecchi
Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics
University of Utah School of Medicine, USA

Gene Targeting into the 21st Century:
Mouse Models of Human Disease from Cancer to Neuropsychiatric
Disorders

16:30

16:50

Coffee Break / Posters

16:50

17:20

Yixian ZHENG
Investigator
Department of Embryology,
Carnegie Institution for Science, USA

Cell division and genome organization in development and aging

17:20

17:50

Kathy LUO
Professor
Faculty of Health Sciences,
University of Macau, China
Study the Integrative Role of Manganese Superoxide Dismutase in
Supporting Breast Cancer Cell Survival in Circulation, Metastasis and
Resistance to Doxorubicin

17:50

18:10

Ruiyu XIE
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Health Sciences,
University of Macau, China
TBC

18:10

18:30

Qi ZHAO
Therapeutics Fully Human T cell Receptor-like antibodies against the
intracellular Protein WT1

18:30

21:00

Gala Dinner

Day 2

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SESSION 2

09:00

09:30

Registration

09:30

10:30

Keynote Speaker
Raghu KALLURI
Professor and Chairman
Department of Cancer Biology,
Olla S. Stribling Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research,
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

TBC

10:30

11:00

Duanqing PEI
Professor and Director General
Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Cell Fate Decisions during Somatic Cell Reprogramming

11:00

11:30

Coffee Break / Posters

11:30

12:00

Minoru TANAKA
Associate Professor
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics for Reproduction,
National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan
Sex of germline stem cells

12:00

12:30

Xin CHEN
Professor
Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences,
University of Macau, China
Targeting of TNFR2 is a novel strategy in
cancer immunotherapy

12:30

13:00

Greta MOK
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Faculty of Science and Technology,
University of Macau, China
Respiratory motion artifacts reduction for
improved ECT/CT

13:00

14:30

Lunch/ Posters

SESSION 3

14:30

15:00

Karl MUNGER
Professor
Department of Developmental, Molecular & Chemical Biology,
Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences,
Tufts University, USA
Carcinogenic activities of human papillomaviruses

15:00

15:20

Huanxing SU
Associate Professor
Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences,
University of Macau, China

Using gene modified patient iPSCs as drug screening models for Parkinson’s disease

15:20

15:40

Zhen YUAN
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Health Sciences,
University of Macau, China
Early Intervention for Children With Down Syndrome by Simultaneously
Modulating Low and High-Frequency Brain Oscillations based on Fused EEG and fNIRS In Functional Neuroimaging

15:40

16:00

Henry KWOK
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Health Sciences,
University of Macau, China

Regulation of PD-L1 by KRAS and p53 in colon cancer cells

16:00

16:30

Coffee Break / Posters

16:30

17:00

Songdong MENG

17:00

17:30

Xuyu ZHOU

17:30

17:50

Douglas ZHANG
Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Data Analysis

17:50

18:10

Selected Poster Presentation

18:10

18:20

Best Poster Awards

18:20

18:25

Closing Ceremony

End of Event