Alex Ng

Dr. Alex Ng is a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at GCTx, and co-invented GCTx’s core TFome™ technology. He is a pioneer in cell programming technologies and has developed many core synthetic biology approaches that have been published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Science and Cell family publications. With over a decade of experience in the field of synthetic biology and stem cells, he is a co-inventor on many issued or pending patents and has been invited to present at numerous top international and national conferences, including ISSCR, Keystone Symposia, and the Human Genome Project: Write. He received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Templeton Independent Fellowship, Carolyn & Peter Lynch Fellowship and NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Fellowship and has been featured by media outlets such as CBS’s 60 Minutes, ABC News, Der Spiegel, Nature Biotechnology, Harvard Gazette, among others. He is a Canadian raised in Vancouver, BC and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BSc(Hons) in biochemistry and statistics. He moved to Cambridge, MA, USA for his PhD at Harvard University with Prof. George Church, where he co-invented the TFome™ technology, and post-doctoral fellowship with Prof. Michael Elowitz at Caltech.

GC Therapeutics
Tuesday
May 06
AI 'Cheat Codes' Speed Therapeutic Cell Creation via Transcription Factors
4:30 PM

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5:15 PM

One of the biggest challenges faced by the regenerative medicine field today is the ability to efficiently and scalably generate therapeutic cells. This session explores cutting-edge transcription factor-based approaches for rapid and efficient differentiation of stem cells into therapeutic cell types. We will examine how synthetic biology techniques are revolutionizing cell therapy by enabling faster production of clinically relevant cells. Speakers will discuss recent advances, challenges, and future directions in harnessing transcription factors for directed differentiation, with a focus on applications in regenerative medicine and drug discovery.

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