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4th European CellAid-Symposium
Cell Therapies for a Cure of Autoimmunity
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
March 18 - 20, 2009 , Kongresshotel Potsdam “Am Templiner See”
Potsdam (near Berlin), Germany
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Chairs
Gerd Burmester, Berlin, Germany
Andreas Radbruch, Berlin, Germany
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Local Organising Committee, Berlin
Wolfram Ebell
Falk Hiepe
Elke Luger
Andreas Radbruch
Andreas Thiel
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Support
Leopoldina, EULAR, EFIS, DFG, DRFZ, Charité
Becton-Dickinson, Miltenyi, Roche
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Preliminary Scientific Program
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
1.00 pm
Arrival, registration, media transfer
2.00 pm
Andreas Radbruch (or G-R Burmester)
Opening remarks
From Pathomechanisms to Cellular Targets
Chair: NN
2:15 pm
Christian Jorgensen, Nice
genetic biomarkers for selected biotherapies in RA
2:45 pm
Rick Holmdahl, Stockholm
NN
3:15 pm
Steffen Gay, Zürich
Epigenetics in Rheumatic Diseases
3:45 pm
Bruno Kyewski, Heidelberg
How central is central tolerance?
4:15 pm
Tobias Bopp
Mechanisms of nTreg-mediated suppression
4:45 pm
Marcel van den Brink, New York
Off-the-shelf adoptive cell therapy with T cell precursors across MHC
barriers
5:15 pm
Matthias Edinger, Regensburg
Adoptive Treg cell transfer in stem cell transplantation
5:45 pm
Coffee brake
B cells and Plasma Cells
Chair: Günter Steiner, Wien
6:15 pm
David Tarlinton, Melbourne
Antagonising Pro-Survival Pathways to Modulate Immune Response
6:45 pm
Simon Fillatreau, Berlin
Activated B cells in immunity: the case for a regulatory role
7:15 pm
Reinhard Voll, Erlangen
NN
8.00 pm
Dinner-Buffet
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Proinflammatory and regulatory T cells
Chair: NN
9:00 am
Francesco Annunziato, Florence
Human IL-17-producing cells: origin and development
9:30 am
Pierre Miossec, France
IL-17 and Th17: contribution to arthritis chronicity
10.00 am
Hyun-Dong Chang, Berlin
The pro-inflammatory immunological memory
10:30 am
Ken Smith, Cambridge
A CD8 T cell transcription signature predicts prognosis in autoimmune disease
11:00 am
Coffee break
11:30 am
Alf Hamann, Berlin
Stability and Epigenetic of Tregs
12:00 am
Berent Prakken, Utrecht
Regulatory T cells in autoimmunity: good guys, bad guys, or incompetent
bystanders?
12:30 pm
Hans Koenen, Nijmegen
Human regulatory T cell expansion, antigenspecificity and plasticity;
lessons learned from allo-antigens
13:00 pm
Lunch
MSC, NK-cells & other cells
Chair: NN
14:00 pm
Francesco Dazzi, London
The challenge of mesenchymal stem cell therapy for autoimmune diseases
14:30 pm
NN
15:00
NN
15:30 pm
NN
16:00 pm
Coffee brake
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Lessons from Clinical Stem Cell Reconstitutions
Chair: NN
16:30 pm
Wietse Kuis, Utrecht
The role of stemcell transplantation and mesenchymal stemcells in pediatric
rheumatology
17:00 pm
Ricardo Saccardi, Florence
Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in autoimmune diseases:
The EBMT Experience
17:30 pm
Renate Arnold, Berlin
NN
18:00 pm
NN
18:00 pm
Jaap van Laa, UK
Risks and benefits of stem cell transplants, lessons learned in systemic
sclerosis
Friday, March 20 2009
Novel Concepts of Cell-Based Therapies
Chair: Andreas Thiel, Berlin
9.00 am
Alexander Scheffold
Self-limitation of proinflammatory T cells as therapeutic strategy
9:30 am
Alan Tyndall, Basel
Mesenchymal stem cells in autoimmune disease treatment
10:00 am
Petra Reinke, Berlin
Adoptive T cell therapy - chance and challenges
10:30 am
Coffee brake
11:00 am
Andreas Grützkau, Berlin
To be on the safe side: Multiparametric immunophenotyping of peripheral
blood cells for monitoring of cell-based therapies
11:30 am
NN
12:00 am
NN
12:30 pm
Lunch
13:30 pm
Arndt von Hoeveler
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