The Conference was organized by the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology, CAS, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, GIBH-CUHK Joint Research Laboratory on Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine and GIBH-HKU Guangdong-Hong Kong Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research Centre.  28 scientists from China, South Korea, New Zealand, U.K., U.S.A. and other European countries were invited as speakers in the Conference. Please refer to the official website of the Conference for more details.

The Conference was immediately followed by Hong Kong and Guangzhou International Conference on Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine co-organized by GIBH of CAS and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) in Hong Kong on 20 December 2015.  Prof. Chan Wai-yee, Director of SBS was also invited to take part in the event by giving a closing remarks and Prof. Kenneth K. H. Lee, Chief of the Stem Cell and Regeneration Thematic Research Program, was the moderator of a discussion panel in the Conference. 

Indeed, our School and GIBH of CAS have established the CUHK-GIBH CAS Joint Research Laboratory on Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine since August 2012.  Through this joint establishment and participation in the above annual conference, our School members can be better enabled to reach out and connect with mainland and overseas scientists renowned in stem cell and regenerative medicine, hence yielding more academic collaborations in this broad area in future.