MALACHITE’S ONLINE CONFERENCE CALENDAR
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Cell Therapy Calendar
CONFERENCES 2005
JANUARY
Jan. 5 Complete Quality Competency.(Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference Series)
Jan. 10-13 CHI’s PepTalk Conference: The Protein Information Week. San Diego, California
Jan. 17-28, BMRC-EMBO Practical Course on Advanced Optical Methods in Cell and Developmental Biology. Biopolis, Singapore
Application deadline: Nov. 15, 2004 (Selected Participants pay only travel costs)
Jan. 20-22 Stem Cell Transplantation in Children: Current Results and Controversies. Scottsdale, Arizona
Jan. 21-22 Focus on Myeloma and Plasma Cell Disorders. Las Vegas , NV
Jan. 24 Overview of Staged Implementation of GMP During Biological/Biotechnological Product Development. Alexandria, VA
Jan. 24-26 Phacilitate Cell & Gene Therapy Forum. Washington DC
Jan. 25 Current Best Practices in Purification Development & Validation. Alexandria, VA
Jan 26 Complications of Blood Donations. (Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference Series)
Jan. 26 Best Practices in Analytical Test Method Validation. Alexandria, VA
Jan. 27 Best Practices in Commissioning cGMP Laboratory Equipment. Alexandria, VA
Jan 27-28 Cytokines & Inflammation. San Francisco, California
Jan.28 Operational Factors for Improved Laboratory Quality and Compliance. Alexandria, VA
Jan. 28-31 1st ESH-EBMT Euroconference on Biobanking. Dublin, Ireland
Jan. 31 Establishing Realistic Process and Test Method Specifications. Alexandria, VAFEBRUARY
Feb 1-3 FDA and the New Paradigm for Tissue Regulation Conference. Dallas, Texas
Feb. 1-4 International Congress on Anti-Cancer Treatment. Paris, France
Feb. 1-7 Dendritic Celss at the Centre of Innate & Adaptive Immunity: Eradication of Pathogens & Cancer & Control of Immunopathology. Vancouver, BC
Feb. 2 Transfusion Service and Blood Center Cooperation in the Management of Serious Transfusion Reactions. (Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference Series)
Feb. 3 Key Issues in Formulation Development for Biotechnology Products. Alexandria, VA
Feb. 4 Auditing In-House and Contract Labs for CMC Development Studies and GLP/GMP Compliance. Alexandria, VA
Feb. 5-10 Cancer & Development. Banff, AB
Feb. 7-11 Compliance Boot Camp 2005: Validation, Quality and Communications Training for FDA Compliance. San Diego, CA
Feb.10-15 Molecular Regulation of Stem Cells. Banff, Alberta
Feb. 10-14 Tandem BMT Meetings (Combined ASBMT and IBMTR/ABMTR annual meetings). Keystone, Colo.
Feb. 16 Basic Antibody Identification. (Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference Series)
Feb. 17-22 Antibody-Based Therapeutics for Cancer. Sante Fe, MN
Feb. 18 New Targets in Cancer Therapy III. Nice, France
Feb. 19 Hematopoietic Progenitor Assay Training Course. Vancouver, BC
Feb. 20 Cell Separation Training Course. Vancouver, BC
Feb. 23-25: The Clinical Trials Congress – Philadelphia
Feb. 23 Process Validation/Qualification for Cell Therapy Procedures. ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
MARCH
Mar. 1-6 Leukocyte Trafficking: Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms. Taos, Mexico
Mar. 2 Introducing the 23rd Edition of Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services. ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
Mar. 3-6 Innovative Therapies in Autoimmune Diseases Conference. Washington, DC
Mar 3-4 Commercialisation of Stem Cells: Are Stem Cells Commercially Viable? London, UK
Mar. 4-5 Stem Cell 2005: Progress to Therapy? EICC, Edinburgh, Scotland
Mar. 16 Advanced Transfusion Reactions. ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
Mar. 16-20 American Society of Transplantation (AST) and Canadian Society of Transplantation (CST) Annual Winter Symposium. Banff, Canada.
Mar. 17-18 3rd International Symposium on Cellular Therapy. Regensburg, Germany
Mar. 17-25 Tissue Repair and Ulcer/wound Healing: molecular mechanisms,therapeutic targets and future directions. Paris, France
Mar. 19-24 Basic Aspects of Tumor Immunology. Keystone, CO
Mar. 20 – 23 5th Human Islet Isolation and Transplantation Techniques Training. Banff, Alberta, Canada
Mar. 20–23 European Group for Blood & Marrow Transplantation Annual Mtg. Prague, Czech Republic.
Mar. 28- Apr. 3 B Cell Development, Function, & Disease. Steamboat Springs, CO
Mar. 30 Cord Blood Banking and Transplantation: Decision Making for Selection of Cord Blood Units.( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
Mar. 31- Apr. 5 International Congress of Physiological Sciences. San Diego, CA
APRIL
Apr. 2-6 Experimental Biology 2005. San Diego, CA
Apr. 6 Team Approach to Red Blood Cell Exchange.( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
Apr. 6-8 Preservation of Cells, Tissues, and Gametes. University of Minnesota
Apr. 7-10 Canadian Society for Immunology’s 18th Annual Meeting. Whistler, BC
Apr. 9-16 American Academy of Neurology’s 57th Annual Meeting. Miami Beach, FL
Apr. 11- 13 British Society for Haemotolgy’s 45th Annual Scientific Meeting. Manchester, UK
Apr. 11-12 Stem Cells Research & Therapeutics. San Diego, California
Apr. 11-13 R&D Leaders’ Forum Spring 2005. The Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables, FL
Apr. 13 Reimbursement Guide for Blood Products and Services. ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
Apr. 15- 18 1st ESH-EBMT Eurocord Conference on Stem Cell Research. Cascais, Portugal
Apr. 16-20 96th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Anaheim, CA
Apr. 20 Biology of Stem Cell Mobilization. ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
Apr. 27-30 American Society for Apheresis 26th Annual Meeting Chicago, IL.
MAY
May 3-4, Current Good Tissue Practice. Vancouver, BC
Workshop Chairs: Janice Davis-Sproul, MAS, MT (ASCP) SBB (John Hopkins Univeristy) & John McMannis, PhD (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
May 3-7. 11th Annual Meeting and Scientific Conference of the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) Vancouver, Canada. (combined with Good Tissue Practices Workshop & Flow Cytometry for HSC Transplantation Workshop)
May 4 West Nile Virus and SARS: Challenges to Transfusion Safety, Then and Now. ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
May 4-7th, Applications of Flow Cytometry in Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation. Vancouver, BC
May 5-7 European Society for Paediatric Haematology & Immunology. Budapest, Hungary
May 11 Increasing Collections: Three Successful Case Studies ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
May 11-14 International Symposium on Technological Innovations in Laboratory Hematology (ISLH). San Francisco, California, USA
May 11-15 9th ESH-EMBT Training Course on Blood & Bone Marrow Transplantation. Cascais, Portugal
May 12-16 5th Annual Conference of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS). Boston, Massachusetts
May 14-16 American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (ASPH/O) 18th Annual Meeting . Washington, D.C.
May 14-17 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Orlando, FL, USA
May 18 Leadership and Self-Deception ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
May 18-20 2nd World Congress on Regenerative Medicine. Leipzig, Germany.
May 20-25 American Society of Transplantation (AST) American Transplant Congress. Seattle, Washington
May 20-21 Frontiers in Human Embryonic Stem Cells Symposium. Pittsburgh, PA
May 23-25 Phacilitate Vaccine Forum Spring 2005.Amsterdam
May 26-30 23rd World Congress of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. Istanbul, Turkey
JUNE
June 1 Facility Requirements for a Cell Therapy Laboratory ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
June 1-5 American Society of Gene Therapy Annual Meeting. Saint Louis, MO.
June 2-5 European Hematology Association Meeting. Stockholm, Sweden
June 3-4 3rd Annual International Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant Symposium. Los Angeles, California
June 5 Serological Case Studies: They Didn’t Tell Me about This in School.( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
June 5-8 Society of In Vitro Biology. Baltimore, MD
June 16-19 1st ESH-EBMT Euroconference on GvHD/Gvl: A Paradigm of Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation. Sesimbra, Portugal
June 19-22 Biotechnology Industry Organization. Philadelphia, PA
June 22 Two Sides of the Same Coin: Getting the Most from External Assessments.( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
June 23-25 3rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research. San Francisco, CA.
June 25 Hematopoietic Progenitor Assay Training Course. Vancouver, BC
June 26 Cell Separation Training Course. Vancouver, BC
JULY
July 2-6 International Society of Blood Transfusion. Athens, Greece
July 13 Unrelated Donor Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: The Effect of Hematopoietic Cell Source, Cell Dose and Conditioning Regimen on Recipient Outcome. ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
July 20 Therapeutic Apheresis in Practice: What’s New? ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
July 27 My Ideal Donor Center. ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
Jul.30- Aug 2 International Society for Experimental Hematology Tradition Meets Innovation 34th Annual Scientific Meeting.Glasgow, Scotland
AUGUST
Aug. 10 Creative Training Techniques: Stepping Out of the Training Box.( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
Aug. 21-24 European Congress on Biotechnology. Copenhagen, Denmark
SEPTEMBER
Sept. 14 Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplantation: Transfusion Requirements and Immunohematologic Complications. ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
Sept. 21 Changes in the New AABB Technical Manual. ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
Sept. 21-25 International Society of Pediatric Oncology Conference. Vancouver, Canada.
Sept. 21-24 German Society of Immunology. Kiehl, Germany
Sept.28-Oct. 2 30th World Congress of the International Society of Hematology. Istanbul, Turkey
Sept/Oct Second International Epithelial Mesenchymal Transfer Conference. Vancouver, Canada.
OCTOBER
Oct.1-5 German & Austrian Societies of Hematology & Oncology, SGH & SGMO Meeting. Hannover, Germany
Oct. 27-30 2nd ESH-EHA Focus on Paediatric Haematology & Oncology. Sestri Levante, Italy
COURSES
cGMP in the Transfusion Service. An online training course.
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NIH and other Stem Cell Training Courses
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Weekly – UCSFs Human Embryonic Stem Cell Training Program (3-day training course).
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Free CME Program: Prophylaxis & Pre-emptive Therapy in Patients at Risk for CMV Infection After Stem Cell Transplant
This activity has been designated to meet the educational needs of physicians involved in the management of patients undergoing stem cell transplantation
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