PROGRAM


May 4th, 2007 [download]

Cord Blood Biology
8.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.
Chairmen
Paolo Bianco and Carmelo Carlo-Stella

Non-Hematopoietic Stem Cells from Cord Blood
Gesine Köegler
Enhancing expansion and engraftment of CB Stem Cells
Hal E. Broxmeyer
Regulation of Stem Cell Homing, Retention and Mobilization
Tsvee Lapidot
The Mesenchymal Paradigm
Willem E. Fibbe

Coffee Break
10.30 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.

Banking, Quality, Regulatory
11.00 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.
Chairmen
Eduardo Fernandez-Zincke and Girolamo Sirchia

Cord Blood Banking in USA Pablo Rubinstein
Cord Blood Banking in Europe Joan Garcia
Netcord and Cord Blood Quality Peter Wernet
Regulatory and Legal Issues Paolo Rebulla

Related and Unrelated CBT in Children
for Non-Malignant Diseases
12.00 p.m. - 1.30 p.m.
Chairmen
Vanderson Rocha and Giorgio Dini

Clinical Results in Related CBT Mark C. Walters
CBT in SCID Marc Bierings
CBT in Fanconi Anemia Agnes Devergie
CBT in Metabolic Diseases Vinod Prasad

Lunch
1.30 p.m. - 2.30 p.m.

Unrelated CBT in Children for
Malignant Diseases
2.30 p.m. - 4.00 p.m.
Chairmen
Eliane Gluckman and Franco Locatelli

CBT in Europe Franco Locatelli
CBT in USA John E. Wagner
CBT in Japan Shunichi Kato

Coffee Break
4.00 p.m. - 4.30 p.m.

CBT in Adults for Malignant Diseases
4.30 p.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Chairmen
Jordi Sierra and Alberto Bosi
CBT in Europe Guillermo Sanz
CBT in USA Nelson Chao
CBT in Japan Satoshi Takahashi

Post-CBT Clinical Outcome
6.00 p.m. - 6.45 p.m.
Chairman
Miguel A. Sanz

Immune Reconstitution after CBT Rita Maccario
Infectious Complications after CBT Rodrigo Martino