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ESH, Eurocord, Netcord, EBMT, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Biology and Clinical Applications of Cord Blood Cells
October 19-21, 2007
Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France
Chairs : W.E. Fibbe, E. Gluckman, G. Kögler, E.J. Shpall
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Session 1 :
Stem cells from cord blood
Title pending
I. Weissman (USA)
Cord blood-derived very small embryonic like (VSEL) stem cells
M. Ratajczak (USA)
Title pending
G. Keller (USA)
Title pending
G. Kögler (Germany)
Title pending
B. Péault (USA)
Title pending
A. Cumano (France)
Notch signaling in stem cell differentiation
I. Bernstein (USA)
Session 2 :
Mesenchymal cells
Title pending
W.E. Fibbe (Netherlands)
Early fetal MSC and maternal and fetal tissue repair
N.M. Fisk (UK)
Session 3 :
Non haemopoietic stem cells
Tissue regeneration potential in human umbilical cord blood
A. Nagler (Israel)
Title pending (endothelial cells)
G. Uzan (France)
Therapeutic potential of epidermal stem cells derived from
both embryonic and somatic tissues
D. Aberdam (France)
Biology and in vitro studies of the non haematopoietic stem cells
from human cord blood differentiating into neuronal cells
L. Buzanska (Italy)
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Title pending (cord blood matrix)
M.L. Weiss (USA)
Re-defining human circulating endothelial progenitor cells
M.C. Yoder (USA)
Placental transfer of drugs
F. Forestier (France)
Session 4 :
Immunological properties/therapies
Cord blood T cells transduces with chimeric immune receptors
targeting B cell malignancies
L. Cooper (USA)
Immune reconstitution of cord blood recipients
K. Komanduri (USA)
Graft versus host disease of cord blood transplant patients
D. Couriel (USA)
Session 5 :
Clinical results
Role of HLA and cell dose in cord blood transplant
E. Gluckman (France)
Title pending
R. Champlin (USA)
Title pending
M. de Lima (USA)
Unrelated cord blood transplants in hereditary disorders
J. Kurtzberg (USA)
Double cord blood transplants
J. Wagner (USA)
CIBMTR comparisons of cord blood & bone marrow transplantation
M. Horowitz (USA)
Comparison of cord blood transplant to other sources of cells
V. Rocha (France)
Cord blood transplants in children
F. Locatelli (Italy)
Cord blood transplants in adults with AML
W. Arcese (Italy)
Cord blood transplant in MDS
G. Sanz (Spain)
Structure of data collection
M. Horowitz (USA) & F. Garnier (France)
Session 6 :
Graft facilitation / Homing
Mechanistic insights into engraftment
H.E. Broxmeyer (USA)
Regulation of stem cell homing, retention and mobilization
T. Lapidot (Israel)
Cell niche interaction
D. Scadden (USA)
Regulation of self-renewing divisions of HSC by
human mesenchymal stromal cells – Clinical consequences
A. Ho (Germany)
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Direct intra-bone (IBM) transplant of cord blood cells
Session 7 :
F. Frassoni (Italy)
Ex Vivo expansion
Title pending
W. Piacibello (Italy)
Copper chelator for ex vivo expansion of cord blood cells
E.J. Shpall (USA)
Ex vivo expansion of cord blood cell
I. McNiece (USA)
Session 8 :
Cord blood transplant : banking, organization, regulatory issues, data report
Title pending
P. Wernet (Germany)
Houston cord blood bank
J. McMannis (USA)
Biological resource center
P. Rebulla (Italy)
Netcord organization
J. Garcia (Spain)
US cord blood bank programme
M. Boo (USA)
Related cord blood banks
B. Lubin (USA)
Economic models of cord blood banking
G. Katz Benichou (France)
Autologous cord blood banking : a need or an illusion?
Y. Beguin (Belgium)
Asia Cord report
T. Takahashi (Japan)
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