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Session Details

Converting Skeptics: Understanding the Fundamentals of MSC Biology
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM  
Room 212-214
Basic and Discovery Research
Roundtable
Organized by: ISCT MSC Committee

Moderator(s)   
  • Nadir Kadri, PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
  • Sowmya Viswanathan, PhD, University Health Network, Canada
 
Panelists
  • Francesco Dazzi, MD PhD, AstraZeneca, United Kingdom
  • Karen English, PhD, Maynooth University, Ireland
  • Maroun Khoury, PhD, IMPACT - Center of Interventional Medicine for Precision and Advanced Cellular Therapy, Chile
Understand how MSCs interact with other cell types to capitalize on their therapeutic potential.

Key Learning Objectives
1. Understand fundamental biology of MSCs and their interactions with multiple cell types including endothelial cells, macrophages, T cells, neutrophils under homeostatic and diseased conditions.
2. How does this interaction inform and change MSC potency?
3. What read-outs can be used to predict these interactions in diseased conditions?
4. Our understanding of inflammation evolves from being one static condition to a multitude of enteties with varying composition of innate and adaptive cells. Hence, the influence of MSCs will depend on MSC interaction with the type of immune cells and their respective numbers.

Sowmya Viswanathan
Scientist
Schroeder Arthritis Institute, University Health Network
Co-moderator


Nadir Kadri
Senior research specialist
Karolinska Institute
Co-moderator


Francesco Dazzi
Executive Medical Lead - Professor
Kings College London
Panelist


Karen English
Professor
Maynooth University
Panelist


Maroun Khoury
Executive Director
IMPACT-Center of interventional medicine for precision and advanced cellular therapy
Panelist