International Regeneration Medicine Research Conference 2007 Held in GIBH

GIBH International Regeneration Medicine Research Conference was successfully held on March.3rd, 2007 at International Business Incubator, Guangzhou Science City. The Conference was sponsored and organized by Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH), Chinese Academy of Sciences.

At the opening ceremony of the conference, Dr. Chen Ling, Director General of GIBH delivered a speech introducing the development of the institute and announced the opening of the Stem Cell and Regeneration Medicine Center at GIBH.

It was a grand gathering of scholars and experts of generative medicine. The conference had the honor to have the attendance of many distinguished scientists from both at home and abroad as keynote speakers, e.g., Dr. Xiangzhong(Jerry) YANG, Professor and Director of Center for Regenerative Biology, University of Connecticut, who is famous for his recent success in cattle and pig cloning, Dr. Lingsong LI, Professor of Medical School of Peking University, Dr. Huizhen SHENG, Professor and Principal Investigator of Shanghai Institute of Life Science, CAS, Dr. Xiaofang SUN from Clinic The 3rd Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, etc. Presentations and discussions were held extensively and respectively among these scientists regarding latest achievements with regenerative medicine, new frontiers in the discipline, and how to strengthen collaborative communications between different nations, and accelerate the development of stem cell research in China.

Besides, the conference also invited several senior editors of peer-reviewed scientific journals, such as Dr. Alan Parker and Dr. Myles Axton from Nature Genetics, Dr. Bernd Pulverer from Nature Cell Biology, Dr. Duanqing Pei from JBC, and Dr. Dangsheng Li from Cell Research. They gave speeches on “how to publish high-quality scientific papers”.

Regeneration medicine is closely related to almost every area within life science, playing more and more significant roles in basic and clinical researches. It has great prospects for future applications in such fields as cell therapy, tissue organ repairing, developmental biology, and pharmacology, etc.

The Conference received a great deal of attention from the superiors. Also present at the conference were Prof. Yixin ZENG, academician of CAS and President of Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center; Mr. Shu MA, Deputy Director of Guangzhou Science and Technology Department and some other officials from the Ministry of Science and Technology of P.R.China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangdong Science and Technology Department, and Guangzhou Sciences and Technology Department.

The Conference had received favorable feedbacks, and had helped promote academic exchanges and communications within the community of regenerative medicine in China.