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Dominique Farge
Professor
Hôpital St-Louis
Paris
France
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With 35 years of practice as Internal Medicine physician and University Hospital researcher, Pr D. Farge has worked in stem cell therapy for autoimmune diseases (AD) since 1995, as full time Professor and Hospital Practitoner at St-Louis University Hospital, at the French and European levels and also in Canada, as adjunct Professor at McGill University since 2017. Her activities are focused on clinical and translational research programs and education in stem cell therapies (hematopoietic stem cells transplantation (HSCT) and mesenchymal stroma cell (MSC) and CART Cells for AD patients. As former Chair of the Auto-immune Diseases (AD) Working Party of the European Bone Marrow Transplant Association (ADWP EBMT), she fostered the cooperation among transplant and AD specialists to initiate and promote EBMT retrospective registry studies and prospective studies using HSCT in SSc, SLE, MS and Crohn’s disease. She was and is involved and coordinated several European and International guidelines for the use of HSCT and innovative therapies (MSC and CART) in AD. She founded the MATHEC (Maladies Auto Immunes et Thérapie Cellulaire) network dedicated to stem cell therapy in auto-immune disease, labelled and funded by the French Health Ministry as a Center of Reference for Rare Autoimmune Diseases and stem cell therapies (www.mathec.com). Since 2017, she is active member the International Society of Cell Therapy (elected member to the ISCT Board of Directors (2019-21); Regional Vice-President elect, Europe (2023-2025) with major focus on contibuting to develop ISCT visibility on clinical trials and by developping online education globally in order to facilitate knowledge transfer based on the three pillars from the ISCT (www.isctglobal.org) She is presently PI or COPI of 5 clinical phase I-II trials using AT-MSC or UC-MSC in Scleroderma, Lupus and CoVID patients. She is author or coauthor of 550 peer-reviewed articles (H-Index 81) and Co-Editor of the book « Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies for Autoimmune Diseases, Book 651 pages, edited by Burt R.K, Farge D., Ruiz M., Saccardi R., Snowden JAD, First Edition published 2022, Taylor & Francis Group LLC, CRC Press »,