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Prophylaxis & Pre-emptive Therapy in Patients at Risk for CMV Infection After Stem Cell Transplant
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CONFERENCE CALENDAR
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Cell Therapy Calendar
CONFERENCES 2004
Nov. 30 – Dec. 1 FDA Information Management Summit. Bethesda, Md
Nov. 30-Dec. 3 IBC’s 2nd Annual Antibody Therapeutics.San Diego, California
Nov. 30-Dec. 3 IBC’s 15th Annual Antibody Engineering. San Diego, California
Dec. 1 Error Avoidance By Using Electronic Information Systems in Transfusion Medicine. (Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference Series)
Dec. 1-3 Immunogenicity for Protein-Based Therapeutics – Washington, DC
Dec. 3 Cellular Therapy: Progressing to Clinical Practice?- San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina, San Diego, CA
Dec. 3-7 Amer. Society for Hematology: 46th Annual Mtg – San Diego, California – San Diego, CA
Dec. 4-8 American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 44th Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.
Dec. 8 Cyberspace: e-Tools for Transfusion Medicine. (Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference Series)
Dec. 9 Negative Results of Clinical Trials: SEC & FDA Ramifications. Palo Alto, California
Dec. 9-10 EuroConference: Stem cells. Paris, France
Dec. 9-10 DIA/EMEA Workshop on Gene Therapy & Cell Therapy Products. London, UK.
COURSES
Nov. 29-Dec. 1: Current Good Tissue Practice– Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nov. 30-Dec. 1: Monitoring Clinical Trials – Malvern, Pa.
cGMP in the Transfusion Service. An online training course. Link
NIH and other stem stem cell training courses – Link
Weekly – UCSFs Human Embryonic Stem Cell Training Program (3-day training course). Link
CONFERENCES 2005
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. 24-26 Phacilitate Cell & Gene Therapy Forum. Washington DC
Jan 26 Complications of Blood Donations. (Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference Series)
Feb 1-3 FDA and the New Paradigm for Tissue Regulation Conference. Dallas, Texas
Feb. 2 Transfusion Service and Blood Center Cooperation in the Management of Serious Transfusion Reactions. (Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference Series)
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. 23-25: The Clinical Trials Congress – Philadelphia
Feb. 23 Process Validation/Qualification for Cell Therapy Procedures. ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
Mar. 2 Introducing the 23rd Edition of Standards for Blood Banks and Transfusion Services. ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
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. 17-18 3rd International Symposium on Cellular Therapy. Regensburg, Germany
Mar. 16-20 American Society of Transplantation (AST) and Canadian Society of Transplantation (CST) Annual Winter Symposium. Banff, Canada.
Mar. 20–23 European Group for Blood & Marrow Transplantion Annual Mtg. Prague, Czech Republic.
Mar. 30 Cord Blood Banking and Transplantation: Decision Making for Selection of Cord Blood Units.( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
Apr. 6 Team Approach to Red Blood Cell Exchange.( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
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. 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 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, 11th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Cellular Therapy. Vancouver, BC
May 4-7th, Applications of Flow Cytometry in Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation. Vancouver, BC
May 11 Increasing Collections: Three Successful Case Studies ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
May 18 Leadership and Self-Deception ( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
May 18-20 2nd World Congress on Regenerative Medicine. Leipzig, Germany.
May 23-25 Phacilitate Vaccine Forum Spring 2005.Amsterdam
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 5 Serological Case Studies: They Didn’t Tell Me about This in School.( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
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.
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).
Aug. 10 Creative Training Techniques: Stepping Out of the Training Box.( Part of the Cellular Therapy Audioconference).
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/Oct Second International Epithelial Mesenchymal Transfer Conference. Vancouver, Canada.