Conference Chairs

      Dr. Dhanansayan Shanmuganayagam, Ph.D.
      Co-Director | Center for Biomedical Swine Research and Innovation
      Assistant Professor | Dept. of Animal and Dairy Sciences
      Assistant Professor | Dept. of Surgery
      University of Wisconsin-Madison
      Madison, Wisconsin, USA

      Dr. Kyle Schachtschneider, Ph.D.
      Research Assistant Professor | Dept. of Radiology
      University of Illinois at Chicago
      Chicago, Illinois, USA

      Dr. Lawrence B. Schook, Ph.D.
      Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell
      Professor Emeritus | Dept. of Animal Science and Radiology
      University of Illinois
      Illinois, USA

Organizing Committee

       University of Wisconsin - Madison

      Dr. Dhanansayan Shanmuganayagam, Ph.D.
      Director | Biomedical & Genomic Research Group
      Assistant Professor | Dept. of Animal Sciences
      Assistant Professor | Dept. of Surgery

      Charles Konsitzke
      Associate Director | UW Biotechnology Center

       University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

      Dr. Lawrence B. Schook, Ph.D.
      Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell
      Professor | Animal Science and Radiology

      Dr. Sharon M. Donovan, Ph.D.
      Professor and Melissa M. Noel Endowed Chair in Nutrition and Health

       University of Illinois - Chicago

      Dr. Kyle Schachtschneider Ph.D.
      Research Assistant Professor | Department of Radiology

      Dr. Ron C. Gaba, MD
      Associate Professor and Director of Clinical / Translational Research
      Department of Radiology

       University of Missouri - Columbia

      Dr. Randall S. Prather, Ph.D.
      Curators’ Professor and Distinguished Professor
      of Reproductive Biotechnology
      Division of Animal Sciences

      Dr. Kevin D. Wells, Ph.D.
      Assistant Professor | Division of Animal Sciences

       Ellegaard Göttingen Minipigs A/S - Denmark

      Dr. Lars Friis Mikkelsen DVM, MLAS, EMBA
      Chief Executive Officer

Scientific Advisory Committee

      Dr. Sen Wu, Ph.D.
      Professor | State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology
      College of Biological Sciences
      China Agricultural University
      Beijing, China

      Dr. Eckhard Wolf, DVM
      Professor and Director | Center for Innovative Medical Models (CiMM)
      Gene Center and Department of Biochemistry
      Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology
      Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
      Munich, Germany

      Dr. Mark Carlson, MD
      Professor | Department of Surgery Professor | Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy
      University of Nebraska Medical Center
      Omaha, Nebraska, USA

      Dr. Lars Bolund, Ph.D.
      Professor | Department of Biomedicine
      Aarhus University
      Aarhus, Denmark

      Dr. Jorge Piedrahita, Ph.D.
      Randall B. Terry, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Translational Medicine
      Director | Comparative Medicine Institute
      College of Veterinary Medicine
      North Carolina State University
      Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

      Dr. Fabiana Kömmling Seixas, Ph.D.
      Professor | Molecular and Cellular Oncology Research Group
      Laboratory of Cancer Biotechnology
      Technology Development Center
      Federal University of Pelotas
      Pelotas, Brazil

Program Committee

      Dr. Franklin D. West, Ph.D.
      Associate Professor | Animal & Dairy Science
      E.L. Rhodes Center for Animal and Dairy Science
      University of Georgia
      Athens, Georgia, USA

      Dr. Ryan N. Dilger, Ph.D.
      Associate Professor | Department of Animal Sciences
      University of Illinois
      Urbana, Illinois, USA

      Dr. Matthew B. Wheeler, Ph.D.
      Professor | Department of Animal Sciences
      University of Illinois
      Urbana, Illinois, USA

      Dr. Harry Dawson, Ph.D.
      Diet, Genomics and Immunology Laboratory
      Agricultural Research Service, USDA
      Beltsville, Maryland, USA