BMT Tandem Meetings ‘Education Book’

Copies of the Education Book for the 2007 BMT Tandem Meetings are available for purchase at $20.

All ASBMT members and subscribers to Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation received the Education Book as a supplement to the January 2007 issue.   A copy of the book also was enclosed with registration materials at the BMT Tandem Meetings.

A limited number of additional copies are available to those unable to attend the BMT Tandem Meetings, for use in training programs or as an introduction or update on the field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy.

The editor for this year’s Education Book is Helen Heslop, MD, chair of the ASBMT Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee and co-chair of the meeting’s Organizing Committee.  She is professor of medicine and of pediatrics and director of adult stem cell transplantation at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.  The book was supported by an educational grant from Schering-Plough Corporation.

The Education Book articles are:

The chapters are:

• Transplantation's Greatest Challenges:  Advances in Chronic Graft-versus-Host-Disease – Warren Shlomchik, Stephanie Lee, Daniel Couriel and Steven D. Pavletic
• Regulatory T-Cells:  Historical Perspective – Nelson J. Chao
• Promise and Challenges of Human Regulatory T Cells in the Clinic – Robert Negrin and Jing-Zhou Hou
• Lymphoid Reconstruction and Vaccines – Ronald Gress, Krishna Komanduri, Hermann Einsele and Laurence Cooper
• Dendritic Cells in Transplantation and Immune-Based Therapies – James Young, Miriam Merad and Derek Hart 
• Adoptive Therapy with T-Cells/NK Cells – Sarah Cooley, Carl Jung, Stephen Schoenberger and Jeffrey Miller
• Endothelial Biology and Bone Marrow – Andrew Cuddihy and Gay Crooks
• Cancer Stem Cells:  From Bench to Bedside – Richard Jones and William Matsui 
• Mesenchymal Stromal Cells – Edwin Horwitz, Michael Andreef and Francesco Frassoni 
• Emerging Targets of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation:  Genetic Disorders of Hematopoiesis and Immunity – Alexandra Filipovich, Jack Bleesing and Fred Goldman 
• Philadelphia Chromosome-Negative Myeloproliferative Disorders:  Biology and Treatment – Ronald Hoffman, Josef Prchal, Scott Samuelson, Stefan Ciurea and Damiano Rondelli 
• Allogeneic Immunotherapy for Solid Tumors:  Which Way Forward? – Didier Blaise and Marco Bregni
• Graft Biology:  Marrow vs. Peripheral Blood vs. Cord Blood – Richard Champlin
• Peripheral Blood Stem Cells Versus Bone Marrow for Ablative Transplantation – Mary Eapen
• Who Should Get Cord Blood Transplants? – Juliet Barker
• Optimal Donor Selection:  Beyond HLA – Dennis Confer
• Reduced-Intensity Conditioning for Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation:  Current Perspectives – Brenda Sandmaier, Stephen Mackinnon and Richard Childs 
• Measures of Morbidity:  Functional Assessment and Cytokines – Sergio Giralt, Maureen Simmonds and Roy Smith 
• Radiation Emergencies:  Evaluation, Management and Transplantation – Daniel Weisdorf, Jane Apperley, Patrick Courmelon, Norbert-Claude Gorin, John Wingard and Nelson Chao
• Facing the Next Pandemic:  Ready or Not – John Wingard
• New Technologies to Visualize T-Cell Function:  A Picture Tells a Thousand Words – John Barrett
• Watching Immune Cells in Action – Alex Huang
• Visualizing the Immune Synapse – Abraham Kupfer
• Visualizing Inside the Cell – Garry Nolan

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