ESH-EHA Scientific Workshop: Biology and Clinical Applications of Mesenchymal Stem Cells

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Monday June 30, 2008

13.00 hrs Opening and Welcome
Willem Fibbe, Leiden [The Netherlands]

13.10-14.00 Key note lecture
Paolo Bianco, Rome [Italy]
“Osteoprogenitors and the hematopoietic microenvironment”

14.00-15.00 Darwin Prockop, Tulane [USA]
“MSC subsets with high cloning efficiency”

15.00–15.30 Special lecture
Hillard Lazarus, Case Western, USA
“Early clinical trials in MSC’s”

15.30–16.00 Coffee/Tea

Session I “Characterisation of MSCs I” 16.00-18.00 hrs

Chairs:
16.00-16.30
Catherine Verfaillie, Leuven [Belgium]
“The developmental potential ofmAPCs

16.30-17.00Bruno Péault, Pittsburgh [USA]
“ Myogenic endothelial cells in human skeletal muscle”

17.00-17.30 Dominique Bonnet, London [UK]
"Prospective isolation of murine MSC”

17.30-18.00 Gesine Kögler, Düsseldorf [Germany]
"Unrestricted somatic stem cells"

19.00-20.00 Drinks

20.00-22.00 Dinner

Tuesday July 2, 2008

Session I “Characterisation of MSCs II” 08.30-10.00 hrs

08.30-09.00 Keith March [USA]
“Multipotent CD34+ adipose stromal cells”

09.00-09.30 Stephen Ström, Pittsburgh [USA]
“Stem cell marker positive cells in human term ammion”

09.30-10.00 Hans-Jörg Bühring [Germany]
“Prospective isolation of mesenchymal stem cells“

10.00-10.30 Pierre Charbord, Tours [France]
" Native bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells characterization”

10.30-11.00 Coffee/Tea

Session II “Disease models ” 11.00-14.30 hrs

11.00-11.30Alain Chapel [France]
"Role of MSC’s in radiation injury”

11.30-12.00Nick Fisk, London [UK]
"Role of MSCs in animal models of osteogenesis imperfecta”

12.00-12.30Antonio Uccelli, Genoa [Italy]
"Role of MSCs in experimental auto-immunity”"

12.30-13.50 Lunch

13.50-14.20Ida Rasmussen, Stockholm [Sweden]
“MSCs and pancreatic islets”

14.20-14.50A. Atala, Winston-Salem [USA]
"Amniotic fluid derived stem cells”"

Session III “Immunomodulation” 14.50-17.00 hrs

Chairs:
14.50-15.10 Mauro Krampera, Verona [Italy]
“Expression of TLRs on MSCs”

15.10-15.30 Francesco Dazzi, London [UK]
“Immunomodulation of MSCs”

15.30-15.50 Amalia Bartholomew, Chicago [USA]
"Immunomodulatory properties of allogeneic MSCs in baboons”

15.50-16.15Jakub Tolar, Minnesota [USA]
"Immunological consequences of adult stem cell therapy after myocardial ischemia”

16.15-16.35Vito Pisotia [Italy]
"MSCs and responses to viral and tumor cell associated antigens»

16.35-17.00 Coffee/Tea

Session IV “Expansion of MSCs” 17.00-18.00 hrs

17.00-17.20 Helene Roelofs, Leiden [The Netherlands]
"The EBMT MSC expansion consortium

17.20-17.40 Elisabeth Shpall, Houston [USA]
"MSC and cord blood expansion"

17.40-18.00 Mikael Sundin [Sweden]
“MSCs as viral reservoirs”

18.00-19.00 Selected Abstracts

20.00-22.00 Dinner

Wednesday July 2, 2008

08.20-9.30 Selected abstracts

Session V “Clinical Applications” 09.30-13.00 hrs

09.20-09.50 Elisabetta Traggiai, Genoa [Italy]
“MSCs in SLE”

09.50-10.10 Lynne Ball, Leiden [The Netherlands]
"Co-transplantation of MSC in haplo-transplantation”

10.10-10.30 Bernardo, Pavia [Italy]
"Co-transplantation ofMSCs and cord blood-derived stem cells"

10.30-11.00 Coffee/Tea

11.00-13.00 Clinical Workshop
Katarina LeBlanc, Willem Fibbe, Alan Tyndall, Antonio Ucelli, EJ Shpall, Francesco Frassoni.

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