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Stem Cell Therapies for Pediatric Diseases and Injuries: A Critical Evaluation

3RD Annual Symposium, March 12, 2009

 
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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:

Raymond Wang, MD
Director, Lysosomal Storage Diseases Clinic
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
Acting Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
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

Lynne Yao, MD
Medical Officer, Division of Gastroenterology Products
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

SPONSORS:

     
NIH
  NIH - National Institutes of Health
CHOC
  CHOC - Children's Hospital of Orange County
CIRM
  CIRM - California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Miltenyi
  Miltenyi Biotec
BioSpherix
  Biospherix
genzyme
  Genzyme
Lonza
  Lonza
Millipore
  Millipore

 

 

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