DAIBR Workshop: Recent Developments in Human-Based Models
NIH Neuroscience Center Building, 6001 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852
About
NIH investigators will examine gaps in human-based models for basic biomedical research, disease mechanisms and translation. The programme covers human development and evolutionary specializations, transformative experimental models, integration of laboratory and computational methods including AI, and disease applications. Talks address stem cells, organoids, tissue architecture, vascularized models, mechanistic digital twins and reproducible disease platforms. Session discussions conclude with research priorities and next steps; medical phantom demonstrations illustrate imaging validation.
In-person attendance: NIH Neuroscience Center Building, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rockville, MD 20852. October 22: 08:30–18:00 EDT; October 23: 08:30–12:30 EDT (America/New_York). The agenda includes a day-two introduction at 08:25 and remains subject to change. Register by October 13 at 17:00 EDT; valid identification is required. Attendees arrange meals at their own cost.
Guest speakers
- Tomasz Nowakowski — University of California San Francisco
- Alex Rives — Biohub
- Amander Clark — University of California Los Angeles
- Annie Kathuria — Johns Hopkins University
- Brenda Ogle — University of Minnesota
- Fred Gage — Salk Institute
- Huilin Li — New York University
- In-Hyun Park — Yale
- James Cherry — NIH Standardized Organoid Modeling Center, NIAID
- Jason Meyer — Indiana University School of Medicine
- Jennifer Lewis — Wyss Institute, Harvard University
- Jimena Andersen — Emory University
- Joseph Wu — Stanford University
- Kimberly Homan — Genentech
- Lena Smirnova — Johns Hopkins University
- Lorenz Studer — Memorial Sloan Kettering
- Marc Ferrer — NIH
- Olivier Gevaert — Stanford University
- Ruchi Sharma — National Eye Institute/NIH
- Sharad Ramanathan — Harvard University
- Zev Gartner — University of California San Francisco
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