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This year's symposium will concentrate on the immunologic aspects of moving stem cells into therapies for pediatric neurodegenerative diseases. An international slate of speakers will discuss pediatric neurodegenerative diseases, bone marrow transplantation therapy, non-myeloablative techniques of BMT, stem cell neurotherapy in animal models, intrathecal approaches for enzyme neurotherapy, the immunology of stem cells, protein tolerance techniques, stem cell neuroimmunology, and clinical trials of stem cell neurotherapy.
REGISTRATION:
Click here to register. There will be no on-site registration. Registration deadline is Feb 28, 2009.
LOCATION:
An international symposium is being held in the Harold Wade Conference Center, 2nd floor CHOC West Building, Children's Hospital of Orange County, 455 South Main Street, Orange, California. Parking is best reached from Providence Street, off of Main Street. See map.
SCHEDULE:
7:30 am - Breakfast
8:00 am - Morning session of speakers
12:45pm - Lunch
2:00 pm - Afternoon session of speakers
5:00 pm - Panel discussion
6:00 pm - Reception
PROGRAM MODERATORS:
Jeanne Loring, PhD
Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute
Philip Schwartz, PhD
Director, CHOC Human Neural Stem Cell Resource, CHOC Research Institute
SPEAKERS:
Jose Abdenur, MD
Chief and Medical Director, Division of Metabolic Diseases
Children's Hospital of Orange County
Pediatric Metabolic Diseases
Diane Nugent, MD
Chief and Medical Director, Division of Hematology
Children's Hospital of Orange County
Bone Marrow Transplantation for Metabolic Diseases
Lauri Burroughs, MD
Senior Fellow in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Non-Myeloablative Approaches to BMT
Karen Aboody, MD
Assistant Professor, Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
City of Hope National Medical Center
hNSC Targeting of Brain Tumors
Amy Rosenberg, MD
Director, Division of Therapeutic Proteins
Food and Drug Administration
Induction or Protein Tolerance
Gregory Enns, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Stanford University
Clinical hNSC Transplantation
Patricia Dickson, MD
Instructor in Medical Genetics
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute
Intrathecal Enzyme Therapy
Philip Schwartz, PhD
Senior Scientist, Centers for Neuroscience and Translational Research
CHOC Research Institute
Stem Cell Neurotherapy
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