Cell Therapy Day – Monday, March 27th
All sessions will take place in Room: Les Goudes 2
09:00-10:30
CT1. Cell procurement and processing
Chairs: Riccardo Saccardí, Italy & Sergio Querol, Spain
09:00-09:30 Practical aspects of G-CSF administration for peripheral blood stem cell collection: Mutlu Arat, Turkey
09:30-10:00 Management of donor side-effects: Jörg Halter, Switzerland
10:00-10:30 Full automation of the cryopreservation and thawing of minimally manipulated cell products:
Boris Calmels, France
11:00-12:30
CT2. Joint ISCT-EBMT Session on substantially manipulated cell products - Manufacturing immune cellular therapies to target malignancies
Chairs: Mark Lowdell, UK & Christian Chabannon, France
11:00-11:30 Mechanisms of resistance to immune therapies: John Barrett, USA
11:30-12:00 Improving tumor specific T cells: Catherine Bollard, USA
12:00-12:30 CAR expressing NK cells: good candidate for “off the shelf ATMP”: Ulrike Köhl, Germany
14:30-16:00
CT3. Joint ISCT-EBMT Session on substantially manipulated cell products - Part II: Clinical challenges in bringing immune therapies to the clinic
Chairs: Chiara Bonini, Italy & Catherine Bollard, USA
14:30-14:50 Cell procurement as the first step to manufacture advanced cell therapies: Adrian Gee, USA
14:50-15:10 Management of complications: He Huang, China
15:10-15:30 Point of care manufacturing of immune cells: Waseem Qasim, UK
15:30-16:00 The Joint ISCT-EBMT award for best abstract in cellular therapy
Presented by: Catherine Bollard, USA & Mohamad Mohty, France
Two-pronged Cell Therapy: Engineering NK cells to target CD22 and redirect bystander T cells to CD19 for the
adoptive immunotherapy of B-cell malignancies: Arpad Szoor, USA
16:30-18:00
CT4. EBMT & European institutions: Working towards the accelerated development of cellular therapies to tackle cancer and other debilitating disorders of the hematopoietic system
Chairs: Jürgen Kuball, Germany & Marcelo Pasquini, USA
16:30-16:50 European Union support to cell therapy & Horizon 2020: David Gancberg, Belgium
16:50-17:10 Regulations: Public Health: Stefaan van der Spiegel, Belgium
17:10-17:30 The EuroGTP II Project – good practices applied to tissues and cells (T&C) preparation processes and patient follow-
up procedures: Esteve Trias Adroher, Spain
17:30-18:00 Round table: Professional societies facing challenges and opportunities
Chiara Bonini, Italy
Marcelo Pasquini, USA
Jürgen Kuball, Germany