This seminar/reading and conference course is an interactive course designed to provide graduate students a basic understanding of latest developments in cellular, gene-modified cells and gene therapy, articulating basic science concepts and challenges in process development, scalability, quality control, safety, potency, and meeting evolving regulatory requirements. Each week, we will invite a leading guest speaker to present a seminar on their respective field of research related to cellular and gene therapy, science, manufacturing and regulation. The course is divided into 4 sub-categories: MSCs, iPSCs, Immunotherapy, GMP/Regulatory considerations with 3 lectures on each subcategory. An Invited Speaker will present a seminar on his/her research for 45 minutes followed by an in-depth discussion on two papers assigned by the Guest Speaker. In addition to discussing the papers, the speaker and students will discuss the 2 written questions that each student submitted prior to lecture time. A total of two hours will be dedicated to each session, which will include the seminar by the Guest Speaker and a detailed discussion of an assigned paper and submitted questions, led by the Guest Speaker.