Plenary I

0845 – 0930

Cell therapeutics: New treatment paradigms for blood disorders

Professor Dr. John E. J. Rasko AO
The University of Sydney

Symposium V – Advances in CAR-T therapy

0930 – 1000

Exploring the impact of T-cell exhaustion on CAR-T cell therapy

Dr. Leow Chiuan Yee
University Sains Malaysia

1000 – 1030

Engineering second, third and next generation CAR-T cells

Dr. Vita Golubovskaya
Promab Biotech

1030 – 1100 Coffee Break

Symposium VI – CAR-T therapy in the clinical setting (IBST Sponsored)

1100 – 1125

Managing CAR-T complications

Dr. Michaela Seng
Singapore General Hospital

1125 – 1150

CAR-T therapy in Malaysian public hospitals

Dr. Tan Sen Mui
Hospital Ampang

1150 – 1220

Overview of CAR-T therapy in haemotological malignancies

Dr. Chang Kian Meng
Sunway Medical Centre

Symposium VII – Cell therapy and nursing care

1220 – 1245

Cell Therapy : Roles and Functions of Nurses in Navigating the Patient Through The Treatment Process

Ms. Amanda Choong Jyeyi
Sunway Medical Centre

1245 – 1310

Nursing Challenges for Stem Cell Transplantation Treatment on Specific Population with Financial Implication

Ms. Seery Zaliza Azura binti Zaider
The National University of Malaysia

1310 – 1400 CryoCord Lunch Symposium
Cord blood – is it a biomedical waste or gold mine?

Moderator: Emeritus Prof. Dr Cheong Soon Keng
Speakers: Assoc. Prof. Dr Lee Bee Sun & Dr Fann Rui Jeat

Plenary II

1400 – 1440

Pelareorep as an enabling technology for both chemotherapies and I–O therapies, including checkpoint inhibitors and chimeric antigen receptors (CAR T) therapy

Dr. Houra Loghmani
Oncolytics Biotech

Symposium VIII – Cell therapies for aging joints

1440 – 1510

MSC and cartilage tissue-derived extracellular vesicles to treat osteoathritis

Dr Law Jia Xin
The National University of Malaysia

1510 – 1540

The use of platelet-derived extracellular vesicles for musculoskeletal tissue regeneration: from basic research to clinical outcome

Dr. Chong Pan Pan
The University of Malaya

1540 – 1610 Coffee Break

Symposium IX – Engineered cells for disease modeling

1610 – 1640

Application of genomic editing technology in retinal diseases

Professor Dr. Chiou Shih-Hwa
The National Yang-Ming University

1640 – 1710

Modelling heart disease from animal to in vitro models

Associate Professor Dr. Tan Jun Jie
Universiti Sains Malaysia

1710 Oral Papers

1610 – 1640

Establishment of hiPSCS derived 3D lung organoids as disease modelling for respiratory diseases

Ms Nalini Devi Verusingam
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

1640 – 1710

Multiple Dosing of Cytopeutics® Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells is Safe in BALB/c Mice Toxicity Evaluation

Dr Natasha Najwa
Cytopeutics Sdn Bhd

1610 – 1640

Analysis of Secretome Profile in Umbilical Cord-derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Co-cultured with Senescent Normal Human Dermal Fibroblast

Ms Lee Soke Sun
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

1740 Closing and farewell

See you at 2025